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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...

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...

This book presents the scholarship of Miriam Ben-Peretz, a pioneering female professor and university leader who held the highest academic honors in Israel and was an American Educational Research Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Education...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886976380Author Paul GangulyFormat PaperbackImprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers Inc

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 9780942961492Author Bill BigelowFormat PaperbackPage Count 229Imprint Rethinking SchoolsPublisher Rethinking SchoolsWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

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)...

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

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798227947390Author Elise BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Elise BakerPublisher Elise BakerWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

The purpose of AECT at 100: A Legacy of Leadership is to highlight the Association for Educational Communications and Technology's 100 years of leadership in educational technology and learning. AECT has a rich history, evolving from the National...

This edited volume reflects on how the "transnational" features in education as well as policies and practices are conceived of as mobile and connected beyond the local. Like "globalization," the "transnational" is much more than a static reality of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988786290Author Elizabeth SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Tribal Eye ProductionsPublisher Tribal Eye ProductionsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781563683954Author Brian GreenwaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Publisher Gallaudet University Press,U.S.

Urban provides an intellectual history of Harvard presidency of James Bryant Conant (1933-1953), situating it within the broader international landscape and drawing out the implication for the current state of higher education with reference to...

A compelling history of the learning style concept and how it was shaped by shifting ideas in psychology, anthropology, and education. The widely embraced notion that we all process information in one of three distinct modes-visual, auditory, or...

Race and Place considers the everyday experiences of community members throughout the process of school desegregation and how race, place, and truth came to matter in this process in Prince George's County, Maryland from 1945 through 1973. Organized...

Race and Place considers the everyday experiences of community members throughout the process of school desegregation and how race, place, and truth came to matter in this process in Prince George's County, Maryland, from 1945 through 1973. The book is...

History of Universities: XXXVII/1-2 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 9780198946519Author Mordechai FeingoldFormat...

Education and Historical Justice explores how global movements for historical redress and reconciliation are reshaping education and schooling. This book is the first to theorize the important and growing nexus between education and historical justice...

Theorizing Social Class and Education presents a selection of writing on class analysis within sociology of education as it has evolved over the last decade both in the UK, and internationally. Moving from a narrow focus on class position and...

By approaching geography and history through an integrated eco-feminist and psychogeography lens, Connecting World Geography to World History Through Storytelling, Eco-feminism, and Mindfulness reaches toward a fresh exploration of the land and water...

Social studies is a field in crisis. The crisis stems from a lack of understanding in the very foundation of social studies purpose in public education: civic education. Social studies theorists have not put forth a coherent method to teach civic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986213458Author Richard LockeyFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint Knightsbridge Genealogy ServicesPublisher Knightsbridge Genealogy...

This collection provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the development of educational policy and practice in the United States during the past century. It presents education as a complex social structure and process that has changed through the...

The Sophists were bold, exciting innovators with new ideas about Athenian society. The first to arrive, in about 444 BC, was Protagoras. During the last half of the fifth century BC he was followed by a succession of 'new age' itinerant instructors who...

In this book, an eminent educational historian examines some important aspects of American schooling over the past centuries, illuminating the relation between education and other broad changes in American society and providing a historical perspective...

Health and Wellbeing in Childhood provides a fundamental introduction for educators in key priority areas of health and wellbeing education, including physical education, promoting health in childhood, and strengthening social and emotional learning in...

For nearly seven years, from 1967 to 1974, many hundreds of bright, college-going youth-most of whom had previously been labeled as high school "dropouts"-would proudly celebrate their graduation from Harlem Prep, a small educational experiment that grew...

For nearly seven years, from 1967 to 1974, many hundreds of bright, college-going youth-most of whom had previously been labeled as high school "dropouts"-would proudly celebrate their graduation from Harlem Prep, a small educational experiment that grew...

A physician and medical reformer enthused by the scientific and cultural progress of the Enlightenment as it took hold in Britain, Thomas Percival (1740-1804) wrote on many topics, including public health and demography. His volume on medical ethics is...

We are living in an era where global university schemes only offer narrow conceptions of quality, relying too heavily on international ranking systems. This timely book present an alternative perspective on evaluating 'world-class universities',...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610488228Author Darlene LeidingFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Rowman & Littlefield EducationPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...