The authors of this volume look at the academy, America's prevalent form of higher schooling in the 18th and 19th centuries, highlighting its role in the formation of middle-class social networks and culture during that period.
The authors of this volume look at the academy, America's prevalent form of higher schooling in the 18th and 19th centuries, highlighting its role in ...
Traces the history of Japanese language schools in America, focusing on the efforts of the Japanese community in California to maintain its linguistic and cultural heritage during the period from the early 20th century to WWII, and surveying conditions during the war and in the postwar era up to the
Traces the history of Japanese language schools in America, focusing on the efforts of the Japanese community in California to maintain its linguistic...
This book examines the ideas of two heroes of adult education, Antonio Gramsci and Paulo Friere, gauging their significance for the development of a radical politics of adult education in the post-Soviet, post-Apartheid new world order.
This book examines the ideas of two heroes of adult education, Antonio Gramsci and Paulo Friere, gauging their significance for the development of a r...
This book chronicles 300 years of women's education during this time. Barabara Whitehead examines this history from a feminist perspective, pointing to the subversive actions of the women of this period that led to the formation of academia as we know it.
This book chronicles 300 years of women's education during this time. Barabara Whitehead examines this history from a feminist perspective, pointing t...
A comprehensive treatment of the defining issues (race, class, reform) regarding education in this century of the American South. The approaches range from broad based historical comparisons to analyses of select case studies.
A comprehensive treatment of the defining issues (race, class, reform) regarding education in this century of the American South. The approaches range...
Urban presents the NEA in its historical context, turning a fair and clear eye on this powerful and controversial organization, and using this context to both criticize and commend. The culmination of a three decade long study, this unique volume presents an unusually thorough and much needed holistic view of the NEA.
Urban presents the NEA in its historical context, turning a fair and clear eye on this powerful and controversial organization, and using this context...
An examination of Soviet conceptions of childhood and the resulting policies directed toward young children. Working on the assumption that cultural representations are not entirely separable, this study probes how the Soviet regime's representations structured teachers' observations of their pupils and often adults' recollections of their childhood. It offers some tentative answers to the questions, What did children make of the Revolution? and What is the Revolution make of them? Although other studies have looked at families and children in the Soviet Union, most have focused on abandoned...
An examination of Soviet conceptions of childhood and the resulting policies directed toward young children. Working on the assumption that cultural r...
