History

Rise and Progress of Universities and Benedictine Essays contains a selection of publications from the middle (1854-56) and late (1858-59) periods of John Henry Newman's association with the Catholic University of Ireland. The Rise and Progress of...

Thomas Jefferson and the Development of American Public Education by James B. Conant originates from the Jefferson Memorial Lectures delivered at the University of California in 1960. Conant uses this platform to revisit Jefferson's role as both a...

Schooldays in Imperial Japan: A Study in the Culture of a Student Elite by Donald Roden offers the first sustained exploration of the daily life, values, and rituals of Japan's prewar higher schools-elite, all-male academies that prepared a fraction of...

Schooldays in Imperial Japan: A Study in the Culture of a Student Elite by Donald Roden offers the first sustained exploration of the daily life, values, and rituals of Japan's prewar higher schools-elite, all-male academies that prepared a fraction of...

A critical analysis of African Americans' collective efforts to obtain educational equality before Brown v. Board of Education. The landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, which barred racial segregation in American public schools, wasn't the only...

From its post-Civil War beginnings as a land-grant institution, Texas A&M has become a place where great minds are cultivated, nurtured, and given free rein. It is in that spirit that a center was established on campus to enhance excellence through the...

A surprising look at what happens to the actual school buildings in the wake of school closures. School districts across the United States have closed thousands of schools since 2000 to cope with chronic underfunding and budget crises, declining...

Founded in 1876, Prairie View A&M University is the second-oldest public institution of higher learning in Texas, one of two Texas land-grant universities, and an "institution of the first class" within the Texas A&M University System. It is also the...

In 1962, George Ruble Woolfolk, perhaps the foremost Black historian in Texas at the time, published his most well-known work Prairie View: A Study in Public Conscience, 1878-1946, a history of the state's first institution of higher education for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218764210Author Joe Nick PatoskiFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Rice University School of Engineering and ComputingPublisher Rice University School...

Liberation and Education brings together a collection of essays about Black educators’ and organizations’ quests to cultivate and employ educational strategies for the liberation of Black people. The contributions examine the enduring nature of Black...

Liberation and Education brings together a collection of essays about Black educators’ and organizations’ quests to cultivate and employ educational strategies for the liberation of Black people. The contributions examine the enduring nature of Black...

Open this book and step into the storied corridors of the nation's oldest university; encounter the historic landmarks and curiosities; and among them, meet the famous dropouts and former students, the world-class scholars, eccentrics, and prodigies who...

A critical analysis of African Americans' collective efforts to obtain educational equality before Brown v. Board of Education. The landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, which barred racial segregation in American public schools, wasn't the only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913836504Author Muriel DunbarFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Tippermuir Books LimitedPublisher Tippermuir Books LimitedWeight(grams) 220g

An account of the post-World War II evolution of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in light of growing bureaucratic tensions and external pressures on the academic profession.Book InformationISBN 9780826513489Author Philo A...

The history of medieval learning has traditionally been studied as a vertical transmission of knowledge from a master to one or several disciples. Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages: Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Transfer in Religious Communities...

Listening to Black women share their life experiences as educators Despite significant challenges and historical opposition, Black female teachers stood at the forefront of advocating for and providing education to Black students. Their dedication not...

Using an-ecdotal personal narratives and observations, this book proposes a general theory of harmage common to all its manifestations and presents educational strategies for building hope through fostering empathy and inclusion. The generic term...

Our Michigan: Spaces & Places tells the University of Michigan's story through its ever-changing shape-from a cluster of scattershot structures dotting a bare 19th century Diag to a massive research enterprise spanning multiple 21st-century campuses...

Policy recommendations and strategies to support teachers in addressing the violent past.Education plays a vital role in fostering reconciliation and teaching peace in conflict-affected societies. In particular, teaching about the violent past from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887441573Author Aleida Garcia AguirreFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

This book is structured in two major parts: the Modern Period and the Contemporary Period. The former (1840-1949) explores the interaction and integration of Chinese and Western educational ideas, with chapters dedicated to key trends. The latter...

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of ancient Chinese educational thought, spanning from its origins to its evolution across millennia. At its core, the book argues that ancient Chinese education was deeply rooted in societal, political, and...

A sweeping, resource-rich history of the ancient world and Christendom-designed for students and lifelong learners alike, and faithful to the enduring legacy of the Western tradition. This is Volume I of a two-part series tracing the story of Western...

Protest and Pedagogy traces how, and in what ways, high school teachers and students sustained and propelled the Black freedom struggle in Charlottesville, Virginia. It centers the relationship between protest and pedagogy within classrooms and the...

Contemporary efforts to revitalise the civic mission of higher education in America have revived an age-old republican tradition of teaching students to be responsible citizens, particularly through the study of rhetoric, composition, and oratory. This...

Childhood in the Promised Land is the first history of France's colonies de vacances, a vast network of summer camps created for working-class children. The colonies originated as a late-nineteenth-century charitable institution, providing rural retreats...

In the 1960s and 1970s-when many communities resisted school integration and schools held low expectations for working-class kids and constricted teachers' autonomy-educators and students at a multiracial public high school in California collaborated to...

History of Universities: XXXVIII/1 contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.Book InformationISBN 9780198972402Author Mordechai FeingoldFormat...

An Open Access edition will be available on publication on the Liverpool University Press website, thanks to funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). In the UK A-Levels and GCSEs in Classical Civilisation and Ancient History offer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738517254Author Courtney L., Ph.D. TollisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218084110Author Larry LivengoodFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Alexandra RunyonPublisher Alexandra RunyonWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784565442Author David ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint FastPrint PublishingPublisher Upfront PublishingDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226662954Author Paul E. PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

A nostalgic journey down the aisles of the British Raj which recounts the life and careers of some known and lesser known Englishmen. The people mentioned were in service in about the 1850s. The volume includes Lord Macaulay's Great Minute on Education...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503607856Author Eva del SoldatoFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Brepols PublishersPublisher Brepols PublishersWeight(grams) 1724g

Offering a novel take on the history of education in the US, A History of Education for the Many examines the development of the education system from a global and internationalist perspective. Challenging the dominant narratives that such development is...

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...

A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Enlightenment presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and...