History

Engages a topic of pressing concern for government, business, and education leaders around the world: the race to establish 'world-class' universities. Some herald the globalization of higher education as the key to a dynamic and productive 'knowledge...

Of interest to scholars both within and outside the U.S., this volume reports how curriculum studies scholars in Mexico understand their field's intellectual history, its present circumstances, and the relations among these intersecting domains with...

Deans of men in American colleges and universities were created in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to help manage a growing student population. The early deans often had a personality that allowed them to engage easily with students...

Providing an overview and Marxist assessment of Tony Blair and New Labour's UK education policies, structures, and processes, the contributors in this exciting new collection discuss specific aspects of education policy and practices.About the...

Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book grapples with two basic questions. What is history? And How can history help...

The Hope of American School Reform tells the story of the origins of the reform in science and math education. The book is drawn, in part, on new research from previously untapped archival sources. The aim of this work is to contribute to our...

This collection, comprised of chapters focused on the intellectual histories and present circumstances of curriculum studies in Brazil, is Pinar's summary of exchanges (occurring over a two-year period) between the authors and members of an International...

In a pungent revision of the professional educator's school of history, Bailyn traces the cultural context of education in early American society and the evolution of educational standards in the colonies. His analysis ranges beyond formal education to...

Now in its fifth edition, this popular text for secondary social studies methods courses integrates discussions of educational goals and the nature of history and social studies with ideas for organizing social studies curricula, units, lessons,...

Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for? In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807177884Author Mary Anne O'NeilFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint LSU PressPublisher LSU PressWeight(grams) 152g

Reparation and Reconciliation is the first book to reveal thenineteenth-century struggle for racial integration on U.S. collegecampuses. As the Civil War ended, the need to heal the scars of slavery,expand the middle class, and reunite the nation...

In the 1920s and early 1930s, the Communist Party embraced a policy to promote national consciousness among the Soviet Union's many national minorities as a means of Sovietizing them. In Ukraine, Ukrainian-language schooling, coupled with pedagogical...

Reparation and Reconciliation is the first book to reveal thenineteenth-century struggle for racial integration on U.S. collegecampuses. As the Civil War ended, the need to heal the scars of slavery,expand the middle class, and reunite the nation...

During his tenure as Chancellor of North Carolina State University, Larry K. Monteith witnessed the state's transformation from a largely agrarian-based economy into one driven by major pharmaceutical, medical, and technological advances. In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997607789Author Daniel R Berger, IIFormat PaperbackPage Count 662Imprint Alethia International PublicationsPublisher Alethia International...

Universities are more than engines propelling us into a bold new future. They are also living history. A college campus serves as a repository for the memories of countless students, staff, and faculty who have passed through its halls. The history of a...

In the 1960s, professors, students, and activists on the political Left viewed college curricula as useful sites for political transformation. They coordinated efforts to alter general education requirements at the college level to foster change in...

Founded in 1841 in Marion, Alabama, Howard College provided a Christian liberal arts education for young men living along the old southwestern frontier. The founders named the school after eighteenth-century British reformer John Howard, whose words and...

Like many other northern clergymen after the Civil War, A. D. Mayo became interested in the role that education could play in rebuilding southern society. From 1880 to 1900 he traveled from Virgina to Texas as an educational missionary advocating the...

In April 1969, one of America's premier universities was celebrating parents' weekend-and the student union was an armed camp, occupied by over eighty defiant members of the campus's Afro-American Society. Marching out Sunday night, the protesters...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615630342Author Helen JordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Sedona Heritage PublishingPublisher Sedona Heritage PublishingWeight(grams) 216g

Beyond Borders highlights and celebrates Cornell University's many historical achievements in international activities going back to its founding. This collection of fifty-eight short chapters reflects the diversity, accomplishments, and impact of...

Beyond Borders highlights and celebrates Cornell University's many historical achievements in international activities going back to its founding. This collection of fifty-eight short chapters reflects the diversity, accomplishments, and impact of...

Common Roots: The North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State Centennial Story Quilt 1891-1991 is a textual and pictorial record of a quilt created to commemorate and highlight the University's first one hundred years. The book provides a history of...

First published in 1928, College Life in the Old South relates the early history of the University of Georgia from its founding in 1785 through the Reconstruction era. Not a dry compilation of facts, E. Merton Coulter's classic study portrays the...

Published in 1951, College Life at Old Oglethorpe describes the origins and revival of Oglethorpe University, the first chartered denominational school of higher education in Georgia. Oglethorpe University was established in 1835 near Milledgeville and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999454206Author Leila Roberta CustardFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Centenary University PressPublisher Centenary University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972307277Author Roy William RoushFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Front Line PressPublisher Front Line Press

This study of the development of education in the British West Indian colonies during the last half of the nineteenth century examines the educational policies and curriculum used in schools following the abolition of slavery. During this period the...

In Three Centuries of Girls' Education, Mary Anne O'Neil offers both an examination and the first English translation of Les Reglemens des religieuses Ursulines de la Congregation de Paris. Published in 1705, Regulations is the first pedagogical system...

It has been said that education in post-colonial Africa is in a state of crisis. Policies and practices from Eurocentric colonial regimes have carried over, intertwining with challenges inherent in the new political and economic climate. Leaders have...

How does one learn to be a good citizen? A good Canadian? Creating Citizens looks at the role schools have played in creating and sustaining a sense of Canadian identity for generations of Alberta students. History and social studies classes, more than...

Just as Mississippi whites in the 1950s and 1960s had fought to maintain school segregation, they battled in the 1970s to control the school curriculum. Educators faced a crucial choice between continuing to teach a white supremacist view of history or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590335536Author Ira MetaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Nova BiomedicalPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 305g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552200742Author Association of Professors Emeriti of the U of AFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Duval House PublishingPublisher Duval House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738506111Author Frank WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

In this far-ranging, incisive study, Robert Ulich analyzes the various forces that have molded the educational systems and common intellectual heritage of Western nations. Ulich has added to this revised edition of his work an important chapter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999462003Author Ashley FeazellFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Talented TenthPublisher Talented TenthWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989318303Author Abdalla Rashad TauFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Exposure Foundation IncorporatedPublisher Exposure Foundation...