wyszukanych pozycji: 48
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A History of Elementary Social Studies
ISBN: 9781433106477 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Elementary social studies, which seeks to instill in children the principles of democratic citizenship and the core values of social responsibility, has an important responsibility in U.S. classrooms. Yet, to achieve these goals, elementary social studies must overcome a number of challenges. Social studies lessons are marginalized in the school day, and critics complain these lessons lack disciplinary rigor and focus. In addition, scholarship in the field is under-funded and under-researched. A History of Elementary Social Studies: Romance and Reality recounts the history of...
Elementary social studies, which seeks to instill in children the principles of democratic citizenship and the core values of social responsibility, h...
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220,16 |
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Voices from Cape Town Classrooms: Oral Histories of Teachers Who Fought Apartheid
ISBN: 9780820467689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book captures the oral histories of twenty South African teachers who connected pedagogy and politics to fight against the apartheid regime. Teaching in so-called Coloured schools, these -teachers with the fighting spirit- stressed nonracialism and democracy in their work with students. Though their lives were deeply affected by apartheid, it never stole their hearts, minds, or souls. Their work helped lead to the election of Nelson Mandela as the first democratic leader of South Africa in 1994."
This book captures the oral histories of twenty South African teachers who connected pedagogy and politics to fight against the apartheid regime. Teac...
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186,70 |
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Twentieth-Century Textbook Wars: A History of Advocacy and Opposition
ISBN: 9780820452289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 189 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. When critics initially attacked textbook publishers for selfishly pursuing profits and employing flawed models of pedagogy, zealous advocates were able to rebut these philosophical arguments. Additional disputes erupted about the ways textbooks depicted nationalism, religion, race, and gender. Armed with precise examples of offensive textbook features, confrontational opponents could not be easily dismissed. Although publishers who wished to align themselves with national sentiments were willing to make changes, they were cautious because the criticism was heterogeneous and shifting. To...
When critics initially attacked textbook publishers for selfishly pursuing profits and employing flawed models of pedagogy, zealous advocates were abl...
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186,70 |
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Henry Chauncey: An American Life
ISBN: 9781433108907 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. A leader in twentieth-century education, Henry Chauncey (1905 2002) introduced large-scale assessment into the lives of individual Americans. This first full-length educational biography examines Chauncey s education at Groton School, Ohio State University, and Harvard College, his position as a teacher at William Penn Charter School, and his role as founding president of the Educational Testing Service. Documenting a career extending from the Great Depression through the end of the Cold War, this book provides an interpretative history of educational measurement through the careers of...
A leader in twentieth-century education, Henry Chauncey (1905 2002) introduced large-scale assessment into the lives of individual Americans. This fir...
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1008,85 |
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«A Visible Company of Professionals»: African Americans and the National Education Association During the Civil Rights Movement
ISBN: 9780820488486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. African American educators shaped a role for themselves in the larger civil rights movement by striving for inclusion, on equal footing, in the National Education Association (NEA). This book explores the relationship between the NEA, the nation s largest teacher organization, and the predominately black American Teachers Association, and illustrates how African American educators helped to redefine the NEA s core ideology to include the support of policies, practice, and politics that promoted educational equity for children and educators who have been historically marginalized. Examining...
African American educators shaped a role for themselves in the larger civil rights movement by striving for inclusion, on equal footing, in the Nation...
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206,88 |
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Sociology of Education: A Critical Reader
ISBN: 9781138843004 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 502 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This comprehensive and bestselling reader examines the most pressing topics in sociology and education while exposing students to examples of sociological research in schools. Drawing from classic and contemporary scholarship, noted sociologist Alan R. Sadovnik with Ryan W. Coughlan have chosen readings that examine current issues and reflect diverse theoretical approaches to studying the effects of schooling and society. The third edition provides students with nine new readings from some of the best theorists and researchers in education including Sean F. Reardon, Ann Owens, Prudence L.... This comprehensive and bestselling reader examines the most pressing topics in sociology and education while exposing students to examples of socio... |
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366,07 |
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The Social Frontier: A Critical Reader
ISBN: 9781433109188 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The Social Frontier is the most interesting and important educational journal to emerge from the Great Depression. First published in 1934 by a group of scholars at Teachers College, Columbia University that included George Counts and William Heard Kilpatrick, the magazine represented a conscious act of social and political reconstruction. With a strong -collectivist- orientation, the magazine was widely misperceived as communist in its approach. In fact, its editorial position called for a greater social role for teachers and a more just and equitable system of schooling.
The... The Social Frontier is the most interesting and important educational journal to emerge from the Great Depression. First published in 1934 by a...
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193,60 |
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Go to the Sources: Lucy Maynard Salmon and the Teaching of History
ISBN: 9780820455044 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Lucy Maynard Salmon was a pioneer educator with a progressive spirit. Having earned a bachelor s and master s degree from the University of Michigan in 1876 and 1883, Salmon continued her studies under Bryn Mawr professor and future U.S. President, Woodrow Wilson. Thereafter, Salmon began her forty-year Vassar College career and earned a reputation as a nationally prominent historian, suffrage advocate, author, and teacher. She helped found the American Association of University Women, the American Association of University Professors, and the Middle States Council for the Social Studies. She...
Lucy Maynard Salmon was a pioneer educator with a progressive spirit. Having earned a bachelor s and master s degree from the University of Michigan i...
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152,99 |
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«Intelligent and Effective Direction»: The Fisk University Race Relations Institute and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1944-1969
ISBN: 9780820450353 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. -Intelligent and Effective Direction- examines the Fisk University Race Relations Institute from 1944 to 1969. Conceptualized and organized by African American sociologist Charles S. Johnson, this Institute brought together an interracial group of scholars, social, civic, and religious leaders, activists, and others to battle for civil rights. Scholarship and dialogue were the primary methods of protest and activism. -Intelligent and Effective Direction- bridges what we know about the efforts of those moving away from a Jim Crow segregated South with the efforts of those moving...
-Intelligent and Effective Direction- examines the Fisk University Race Relations Institute from 1944 to 1969. Conceptualized and organized by ...
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180,06 |
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«A Visible Company of Professionals»: African Americans and the National Education Association During the Civil Rights Movement
ISBN: 9781433100253 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. African American educators shaped a role for themselves in the larger civil rights movement by striving for inclusion, on equal footing, in the National Education Association (NEA). This book explores the relationship between the NEA, the nation s largest teacher organization, and the predominately black American Teachers Association, and illustrates how African American educators helped to redefine the NEA s core ideology to include the support of policies, practice, and politics that promoted educational equity for children and educators who have been historically marginalized. Examining...
African American educators shaped a role for themselves in the larger civil rights movement by striving for inclusion, on equal footing, in the Nation...
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541,20 |
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Peerless Educator: The Life and Work of Isaac Leon Kandel
ISBN: 9780820474588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Isaac Leon Kandel (1881-1965) was a major figure in educational philosophy and comparative education in the twentieth century. As a professor of education at Columbia University s Teachers College, Kandel almost single-handedly developed the field of comparative education, and was an early critic of Progressive educational philosophy. As the definitive biography of one of the twentieth century s most brilliant writers on education, this book presents Kandel as a democratic traditionalist who tirelessly advocated the ideal of liberal education for all. This book tells the story of Kandel s...
Isaac Leon Kandel (1881-1965) was a major figure in educational philosophy and comparative education in the twentieth century. As a professor of educa...
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206,88 |
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Desegregating Teachers: Contesting the Meaning of Equality of Educational Opportunity in the South Post Brown
ISBN: 9781433112379 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Desegregating Teachers: Contesting the Meaning of Equality of Educational Opportunity in the South post Brown explores the battle to desegregate public school teachers in the South. It also considers the implications of linking racially balanced school faculties to equal educational opportunities for African American students. This book demonstrates that the legal struggle to desegregate teachers and other school personnel is critical to understanding the politics of school desegregation in the South and perhaps elsewhere. Its premise is that the status of educators far from being at...
Desegregating Teachers: Contesting the Meaning of Equality of Educational Opportunity in the South post Brown explores the battle to desegregat...
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220,16 |
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Readin' + Writin' for the Hard-Hat Crowd: Curriculum Policy at an Urban University
ISBN: 9780820455082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Readin + Writin for the Hard-Hat Crowd explores the history of an urban public university from its conception in 1964 to the dawn of the twenty-first century. The reader views this place in time through the lens of the evolving nature of -freshman English-, an introductory curriculum that began as four semesters of Great Books. The author, herself among those once labeled -the hard-hat crowd-, received an undergraduate education similar to that experienced by her contemporaries at elite private colleges. Yet, while this school, once considered a poor man s Harvard, was founded with a...
Readin + Writin for the Hard-Hat Crowd explores the history of an urban public university from its conception in 1964 to the dawn of the twenty...
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186,70 |
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Progressive Pioneer: Alexander James Inglis (1879-1924) and American Secondary Education
ISBN: 9780820481166 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Alexander James Inglis s (1879-1924) transformation from an academic traditionalist devoted to Latin pedagogy to an influential progressive-experimentalist and advocate of the comprehensive high school has received insufficient attention from educational and curriculum historians. Inglis s career manifests important characteristics of the progressive era in American history. As an attempt to generate organizing principles upon which to construct a new, responsive social institution, his book, Principles of Secondary Education, stands as a quintessential manifestation of progressive...
Alexander James Inglis s (1879-1924) transformation from an academic traditionalist devoted to Latin pedagogy to an influential progressive-experiment...
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186,70 |
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Progressive Pioneer: Alexander James Inglis (1879-1924) and American Secondary Education
ISBN: 9781433100475 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Alexander James Inglis s (1879-1924) transformation from an academic traditionalist devoted to Latin pedagogy to an influential progressive-experimentalist and advocate of the comprehensive high school has received insufficient attention from educational and curriculum historians. Inglis s career manifests important characteristics of the progressive era in American history. As an attempt to generate organizing principles upon which to construct a new, responsive social institution, his book, Principles of Secondary Education, stands as a quintessential manifestation of progressive...
Alexander James Inglis s (1879-1924) transformation from an academic traditionalist devoted to Latin pedagogy to an influential progressive-experiment...
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480,93 |
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The Teachers of Stalinism: Policy, Practice, and Power in Soviet Schools of the 1930s
ISBN: 9780820452333 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The Teachers of Stalinism: Policy, Practice, and Power in Soviet Schools of the 1930s examines Soviet primary and secondary teachers in a period of educational expansion, social transformation, and political repression. This book focuses on the professional status, classroom practices, and political experiences of teachers. Based on archival research and published materials, including personal statements, inspectors reports, and instructional documents, The Teachers of Stalinism explores the unique relationships among Soviet society, schools, and the state that evolved in the...
The Teachers of Stalinism: Policy, Practice, and Power in Soviet Schools of the 1930s examines Soviet primary and secondary teachers in a perio...
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152,99 |
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School's in: The History of Summer Education in American Public Schools
ISBN: 9780820456577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Why is summer a time of leisure or work rather than schooling for most students in the United States today? Kenneth Gold offers a fascinating and complex account of the history of summer education that rejects the pervasive myth that summer vacation is a natural vestige of agrarian America and highlights an historic tension over the presence and absence of summer education in American public schools. School s In unravels the ideologies and politics surrounding the nineteenth-century demise of summer terms and the social concerns and conditions that gave rise to twentieth-century summer...
Why is summer a time of leisure or work rather than schooling for most students in the United States today? Kenneth Gold offers a fascinating and comp...
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152,99 |
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Wartime Schools: How World War II Changed American Education
ISBN: 9780820463551 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The politically conservative educators of World War II dramatically and rapidly altered policies, programs, schedules, learning materials, classroom activities, and the content of academic courses. They motivated students to salvage materials, sell war stamps, grow crops, learn about wartime issues, and take pride in patriotism. They prepared millions of people for the armed services and the defense industries. These accomplishments were possible because the educators were supported by an unprecedented alliance that included teachers, school administrators, industrialists, military personnel,...
The politically conservative educators of World War II dramatically and rapidly altered policies, programs, schedules, learning materials, classroom a...
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Justice, Justice: School Politics and the Eclipse of Liberalism
ISBN: 9780820467870 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In 1968, a bitter struggle broke out between white New York City teacher unionists and black community organizers over efforts to create community control of the city s schools. The New York conflict reverberated across the United States, calling into question the possibility of creating equitable schools and cementing racial antagonism at the center of American politics. A path-breaking study of teacher organizing, civil rights movement activism, and urban education, Justice, Justice: School Politics and the Eclipse of Liberalism recounts how teachers and activists ideals shaped the...
In 1968, a bitter struggle broke out between white New York City teacher unionists and black community organizers over efforts to create community con...
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186,70 |
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Social Education in the Twentieth Century: Curriculum and Context for Citizenship
ISBN: 9780820462479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Since the birth of the republic, the aim of social education has been to prepare citizens for participation in democracy. In the twentieth century, theories about what constitutes good citizenship and who gets full citizenship in the civic polity changed dramatically. In this book, contributors with backgrounds in history of education, educational foundations, educational leadership, and social studies education consider how social education inside and outside school has responded to the needs of a society in which the nature and prerogatives of citizenship continue to be contentious...
Since the birth of the republic, the aim of social education has been to prepare citizens for participation in democracy. In the twentieth century, th...
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186,70 |