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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783031020766Author Eileen H TamuraFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Palgrave MacMillanPublisher Palgrave MacMillanWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503574455Author Sonja BrentjesFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896300115Author Elizabeth McLachlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 212gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877372865Author Helen MayFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 708g

An art historian, cultural critic and political theorist, John Ruskin was, above all, a great educator. The inspiration behind William Morris, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust and Mahatma Gandhi, Ruskin's influence can be felt increasingly in every sphere...

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A Centennial, writes Hebrew College President Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, "is an invitation to reflect on the last century of teaching and learning at Hebrew College, to ask ourselves what has changed and what has endured, to explore accomplishments and...

A concise, critical study of Martin Luther and his impact on the modern world. The book covers Luther's life, work as a reformer, theological development, and long-term influence. The book is extensively based on the writings of Martin Luther and draws...

Beyond Pinocchio is a meticulous examination of renowned author Carlo Collodi's primers and his debunking Italian bourgeois propaganda 'from within'. In his government-approved books for primary school, Collodi offered a view of society that was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606922989Author Shin'ya ObaraFormat HardbackPage Count 343Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1014g

This series has its focus on the challenges and changes facing education at the beginning of the new millennium. 'Emerging goals' link each volume. The European Union has experienced enormous unification pains including expansion to 25 countries. For the...

With the current emphasis on standards in the schools, one may think that this is a new phenomenon. However, as this pamphlet clearly demonstrates, while standards in American schools have a long history dating back to Reconstruction, the recommendations...

A compelling history of school desegregation and activism in San Francisco The picture of school desegregation in the United States is often painted with broad strokes of generalization and insulated anecdotes. Its true history, however, is...

How the Great Recession revealed a system of school choice built on crisis, precarity, and exclusion   What do universal rights to public goods like education mean when codified as individual, private choices? Is the “problem” of school choice actually...

In A Is for Arson, Campbell F. Scribner sifts through two centuries of debris to uncover the conditions that have prompted school vandalism and to explain why attempts at prevention have inevitably failed. Vandalism costs taxpayers hundreds of millions...

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of two of the most influential books in modern educational and social theory, Rethinking Freire and Illich introduces readers to the results of the symposium of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Ivan Illich's...

Science fiction literature and film are an underappreciated source for the teaching of history. Finding material that can excite a student’s curiosity can be a key towards greater student engagement, especially among students who are taking history as a...

The World Today Series: East & Southeast Asia provides historical background on the evolution of Modern East & Southeast Asia to help readers gain a thorough understanding of contemporary developments in this vital region. Broad introductory...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913966457Author Anne BurleighFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 377g

In late summer 1940, as war spread across Europe and as the nation pulled itself out of the Great Depression, an anticommunist hysteria convulsed New York City. Targeting the city's municipal colleges and public schools, the New York state legislature's...

In an age when innovative scholarly work is at an all-time high, the academy itself is being rocked by structural change. Funding is plummeting. Tenure increasingly seems a prospect for only the elite few. Ph.D.'s are going begging for even adjunct work...

Sports films are popular forms of entertainment around the world, but beyond simply amusing audiences, they also reveal much about class, race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. In All-Stars and Movie Stars, Ron Briley, Michael K. Schoenecke,...

Christian organizations have always played a large role in Canadian education. By 1949, five provinces had constitutionally protected denominational schools. The federal government's responsibility for the education of Indigenous Peoples was effectively...

Christian organizations have always played a large role in Canadian education. By 1949, five provinces had constitutionally protected denominational schools. The federal government’s responsibility for the education of Indigenous Peoples was effectively...

This book will appeal to higher education, public policy, and public administration scholars in Canada and the United States. Provincial education policy makers and college and university administrators will also find it of interest.Book InformationISBN...

This book will be of interest to scholars of modern China and thehistory of education.Book InformationISBN 9780774821766Author Elizabeth R. VanderVenFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher University of British...

In Academic Freedom in Hong Kong, Jan Currie, Carole J. Petersen, and Ka Ho Mok explore the unique situation in Hong Kong, a tiny jurisdiction in which there is active protection for the freedom of expression despite the close proximity and relationship...

Written tests to evaluate students were a radical and controversial innovation when American educators began adopting them in the 1800s. Testing quickly became a key factor in the political battles during this period that gave birth to America's modern...

Higher education and university-based research rank among the main forces shaping our world. Focusing on knowledge rather than institutions, Language, Religion, Knowledge offers penetrating insight into how higher learning took its present form and the...

Over the course of the twentieth century, education was a key site for envisioning opportunities for African Americans, but the very schools they attended sometimes acted as obstacles to black flourishing. Educating Harlem brings together a...

In this comprehensive social history of Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), Robert McCaughey combines archival research with oral testimony and contemporary interviews to build a critical and celebratory portrait of...

The second volume of an ambitious new economic history of American higher education.Capital of Mind is the second volume in a breathtakingly ambitious new economic history of American higher education. Picking up from the first volume, Exchange of Ideas,...

Over the last 40 years, a revolution has taken place in Europe. There is now a European Union. As a part of building the Union, it was clear from the start that it was essential to develop a European dimension in education. This book outlines the key...

This inspiring, true story of a Black community sheds new light on the history of segregation and inequity in American educationThe system of educational apartheid that existed in the United States until the Brown v. Board of Education decision and its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590339893Author Jack SislianFormat HardbackPage Count 311Imprint Nova BiomedicalPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 776g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913966006Author Anne BurleighFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 583g

Since the inadequacies of the Industrial Revolution remain a key factor in most critiques of capitalism and individual liberty, Education and the Industrial Revolution makes an important contribution to a better understanding of the period. The book...

Old Schools marks out a modernist countertradition. The book makes sense of an apparent anachronism in twentieth-century literature and cinema: a fascination with outmoded, paradigmatically pre-modern educational forms that persists long after they are...

In an age when innovative scholarly work is at an all-time high, the academy itself is being rocked by structural change. Funding is plummeting. Tenure increasingly seems a prospect for only the elite few. Ph.D.'s are going begging for even adjunct work...

The social contract of public universities-the progressive idea that any citizen who meets specified academic conditions can gain entry to their state university-has profoundly shaped American society. This book offers the first comprehensive examination...