wyszukanych pozycji: 5
The Evolution of an Urban School System
ISBN: 9780674181373 / Angielski / Twarda / 1973 / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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297,47 zł |
Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading Since 1880
ISBN: 9780300054309 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 361 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The United States is at a crucial moment in the history of literacy, a time when how well Americans read is the subject of newspaper headlines. In this insightful book, Carl F. Kaestle and his colleagues shed new light on this issue, providing a social history of literacy in America that broadens the definition of literacy and considers who was reading what, under what circumstances, and for what purposes.
The book explores diverse sources--from tests of reading ability, government surveys, and polls to nineteenth-century autobiographies and family budget studies--in order... The United States is at a crucial moment in the history of literacy, a time when how well Americans read is the subject of newspaper headlines. In ... |
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299,83 zł |
A History of the Book in America: Volume 4: Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1940
ISBN: 9781469621623 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print culture picked up momentum as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth. Books, magazines, and newspapers were produced more quickly and more cheaply, reaching ever-increasing numbers of readers. Volume 4 of A History of the Book in America traces the complex, even contradictory consequences of these changes in the production, circulation, and use of print.
Contributors to this volume explain that although mass production encouraged consolidation and standardization,... In a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print culture picked up momentum as the nineteenth centur...
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302,70 zł |
Education and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts
ISBN: 9780521102353 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This important contribution to scholarship in social science history examines the development of public education in nineteenth-century Massachusetts. Until the 1950s educational historians emphasized the relationship of schooling to the political system and the development of a common American culture. In recent years a social history perspective has emerged that stresses the socioeconomic influences that tie education to other institutions and processes in society rather than to political ideals. Carl Kaestle's and Maris Vinovskis's study is firmly grounded in this newer perspective....
This important contribution to scholarship in social science history examines the development of public education in nineteenth-century Massachusetts....
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207,87 zł |
Pillars of the Republic
ISBN: 9780809001545 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Pillars of the Republic is a pioneering study of common-school development in the years before the Civil War. Public acceptance of state school systems, Kaestle argues, was encouraged by the people's commitment to republican government, by their trust in Protestant values, and by the development of capitalism. The author also examines the opposition to the Founding Fathers' educational ideas and shows what effects these had on our school system. Pillars of the Republic is a pioneering study of common-school development in the years before the Civil War. Public acceptance of state sch... |
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104,83 zł |