wyszukanych pozycji: 25
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Knowledge for Social Change: Bacon, Dewey, and the Revolutionary Transformation of Research Universities in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781439915196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Employing history, social theory, and a detailed contemporary case study, Knowledge for Social Change argues for fundamentally reshaping research universities to function as democratic, civic, and community-engaged institutions dedicated to advancing learning and knowledge for social change. The authors focus on significant contributions to learning made by Francis Bacon, Benjamin Franklin, Seth Low, Jane Addams, William Rainey Harper, and John Dewey--as well as their own work at Penn's Netter Center for Community Partnerships--to help create and sustain democratically-engaged... Employing history, social theory, and a detailed contemporary case study, Knowledge for Social Change argues for fundamentally reshaping res... |
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54,37 |
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Knowledge for Social Change: Bacon, Dewey, and the Revolutionary Transformation of Research Universities in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781439915189 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Employing history, social theory, and a detailed contemporary case study, Knowledge for Social Change argues for fundamentally reshaping research universities to function as democratic, civic, and community-engaged institutions dedicated to advancing learning and knowledge for social change. The authors focus on significant contributions to learning made by Francis Bacon, Benjamin Franklin, Seth Low, Jane Addams, William Rainey Harper, and John Dewey--as well as their own work at Penn's Netter Center for Community Partnerships--to help create and sustain democratically-engaged... Employing history, social theory, and a detailed contemporary case study, Knowledge for Social Change argues for fundamentally reshaping res... |
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296,86 |
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Dewey's Dream: Universities and Democracies in an Age of Education Reform
ISBN: 9781592135912 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This timely, persuasive, and hopeful book reexamines John Dewey's idea of schools, specifically community schools, as the best places to grow a democratic society that is based on racial, social, and economic justice. The authors assert that American colleges and universities bear a responsibility for-and would benefit substantially from-working with schools to develop democratic schools and communities. "Dewey's Dream" opens with a reappraisal of Dewey's philosophy and an argument for its continued relevance today. The authors-all well-known in education circles-use illustrations from over...
This timely, persuasive, and hopeful book reexamines John Dewey's idea of schools, specifically community schools, as the best places to grow a democr...
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282,01 |
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Connecting Past and Present: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in History
ISBN: 9781563770203 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The question that animates volume, 16th in the Service-Learning in the Disciplines Series, is: Why connect service-learning to history courses? The contributors answer that question in different ways and illustrate and highlight a diversity of historical approaches and interpretations. All agree, however, that they do their jobs better as teachers (and in some cases as researchers) by engaging their students in service-learning. An interesting read with a compelling case for the importance of history and how service-learning can improve the historian's craft.
The question that animates volume, 16th in the Service-Learning in the Disciplines Series, is: Why connect service-learning to history courses? The co...
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cena:
168,17 |
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Warfare and the Third World
ISBN: 9780312240097 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 413 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book is designed to help the reader better understand the conduct of war by focusing on the 'how' not the 'why' of warfare. It examines a number of crucial dimensions of contemporary armed conflict such as: the strategies, operations, tactics, doctrines and weapons of conventional and low-intensity war; military geography; the cultural underpinnings of strategies and tactics; arms resupply, security assistance, and foreign intervention.
This book is designed to help the reader better understand the conduct of war by focusing on the 'how' not the 'why' of warfare. It examines a number ...
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cena:
202,19 |