wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Values in Conflict: The University, the Marketplace, and the Trials of Liberal Education
ISBN: 9780773524071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Values in Conflict is a clarion call to policy-makers, business leaders, and the public at large to rethink the current direction of the contemporary university. Paul Axelrod demonstrates that liberal education, the core of higher learning, is threatened by the constricting pressures of the marketplace and shows how political and economic pressures are redefining higher learning. Axelrod demonstrates how, in the race for riches - symbolized by endless rhetoric about the need for Canada to become globally competitive, technologically advanced, and proficient at churning out "knowledge workers"...
Values in Conflict is a clarion call to policy-makers, business leaders, and the public at large to rethink the current direction of the contemporary ...
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Making a Middle Class: Student Life in English Canada during the Thirties
ISBN: 9780773507531 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Universities of the 1930s, declared one observer, were "loafing places for rich men's sons." In Making a Middle Class Paul Axelrod challenges this popular perception, arguing that while students who attended university during the Great Depression were relatively privileged, the majority were neither terribly affluent nor completely sheltered from hard economic times. Nor were they all men.
Universities of the 1930s, declared one observer, were "loafing places for rich men's sons." In Making a Middle Class Paul Axelrod challenges this pop...
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536,32 zł |
Knowledge Matters: Essays in Honour of Bernard J. Shapiro
ISBN: 9780773528307 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Knowledge Matters, written in honour of eminent Canadian educator Bernard J. Shapiro, explores the state and prospects of higher education in Canada and beyond. The contributors, a group of distinguished thinkers who participated in a colloquium in honour of Bernard J. Shapiro upon his retirement from the principalship of McGill University, draw from their vast experience and accomplishments in the worlds of scholarship, university administration, and the public and private sectors to demonstrate that knowledge matters. The contributors offer a variety of cautionary notes, neither despairing...
Knowledge Matters, written in honour of eminent Canadian educator Bernard J. Shapiro, explores the state and prospects of higher education in Canada a...
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536,32 zł |
The Promise of Schooling: Education in Canada, 1800-1914
ISBN: 9780802078155 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Between 1800 and 1914, Canadian society and its school systems were forged, populated, expanded and reformed. The Promise of Schooling explores the links between social and educational change in this complex and dynamic period. It raises and seeks to answer a number of questions: How extensive was schooling in the early nineteenth century? What lay behind the campaign to extend publicly funded education? What went on inside the Canadian classroom? How did schools address the needs of Native students, blacks, and the children of immigrants? What cultural and social roles did... Between 1800 and 1914, Canadian society and its school systems were forged, populated, expanded and reformed. The Promise of Schooling exp... |
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135,32 zł |
Knowledge Matters : Essays in Honour of Bernard J. Shapiro
ISBN: 9780773528314 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Knowledge Matters, written in honour of eminent Canadian educator Bernard J. Shapiro, explores the state and prospects of higher education in Canada and beyond. The contributors, a group of distinguished thinkers who participated in a colloquium in honour of Bernard J. Shapiro upon his retirement from the principalship of McGill University, draw from their vast experience and accomplishments in the worlds of scholarship, university administration, and the public and private sectors to demonstrate that knowledge matters. sanguine, about the future of higher education. most accomplished...
Knowledge Matters, written in honour of eminent Canadian educator Bernard J. Shapiro, explores the state and prospects of higher education in Canada a...
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156,16 zł |
Youth, University, and Canadian Society: Essays in the Social History of Higher Education
ISBN: 9780773507098 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Focusing on the student experience from the last quarter of the nineteenth century through the troubled 1960s, this collection of fourteen essays examines university life as a part of social and intellectual history. It brings to light the work of a new generation of researchers who have moved away from the narrower concern with institutional growth that has typified most historical writing in this field. Contributors include Paul Axelrod, Michael Behiels, Judith Fingard, Chad Gaffield, Yves Gingras, Patricia Jasen, Nancy Kiefer, Susan Laskin, Malcolm MacLeod, Lynne Marks, A.B. McKillop,...
Focusing on the student experience from the last quarter of the nineteenth century through the troubled 1960s, this collection of fourteen essays exam...
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177,04 zł |
Making Policy in Turbulent Times: Challenges and Prospects for Higher Education
ISBN: 9781553393320 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How is policy made in higher education, particularly in the wake of recent economic turbulence? Has policy development converged internationally, and if so, what impact has this had on academic life and institutions? What role does policy-oriented research play in shaping the direction of higher education? Are universities grappling in common ways with issues of access and equity? Making Policy in Turbulent Times provides a historically informed and nuanced response to these and other questions. Distinguished scholars and administrators from across the globe identify economic challenges and...
How is policy made in higher education, particularly in the wake of recent economic turbulence? Has policy development converged internationally, and ...
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187,45 zł |