Thomas Jefferson s ideas on education evolved over sixty years from his adolescent years at The College of William and Mary, through the Revolution and election of 1800, to his death in 1826. In 1776, he saw public education as the cornerstone of Virginia s revolution and hoped it would help destroy aristocratic and denominational privilege, create opportunities based on merit, foster humanism and encourage the political awareness necessary for a republican society. Though limited to white males, public education was a progressive idea for its time. All his bills failed. Even though Jefferson...

Place and Displacement in the Narrative Worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortazar engages the notions of place and displacement as heuristic devices for literary analysis of Borges s and Cortazar s narratives. It maps out these authors visions of place and displacement in some of their most famous texts; locates the place of Borges s texts within Cortazar s fictional universe; and delineates new routes in communication between different literary traditions, and philosophical and anthropological discourses. This book also suggests that the challenge of a strict opposition between...

This book documents a high school ecology class that employs currere, William Pinar s idea for curriculum as autobiographical text, and analyzes the course s success from the author s point of view as both the practitioner and the curriculum developer. Discussing individual students responses to currere in a project termed the Environmental Autobiography (EA) a twist on currere that emphasizes environmental experience this book examines how ecology is taught in high schools; how ecologists are produced, along with the importance of ecology in school curriculum today; the...

The Pulse of a Malaysian University discloses the research agendas of language scholars at a Southeast-Asian university, allowing western readers to gain deeper knowledge of an Asian perspective on language issues. In Part A, five authors address diverse ethnolinguistic/sociolinguistic issues such as the Minangkabau Pasambahan, media response to terrorism, negotiation discourse, bilingualism, and status of foreign languages. In Part B, four writers focus on the teaching of English in Malaysia with emphasis on grammar, reading, writing, and literature. Altogether, these essays...

Rolf Hochhuth s The Deputy, a play written and staged almost two decades after the end of World War II, asks why Pope Pius XII avoided a public condemnation of the Nazi regime and the mass murder. In this book, Emanuela Barasch-Rubinstein explores the explicit and implicit religious motifs in Hochhuth s The Deputy. She discusses the various aspects of the devil acting in the concentration camp, the two figures of the saints one Catholic, the other Protestant and the ecumenical practical and theoretical arguments. The author s detailed analysis of Hochhuth s play reveals a modern...

Severe food shortages and unremitting hunger served as the background to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the civil war that followed. Hungry Moscow examines the impact of these food shortages on Moscow residents, focusing on the survival strategies they devised to overcome or minimize hunger. Also examined is the interplay between these short-term individual survival strategies and the formulation and development of long-term government policies by the Bolshevik government. Through the prisms of hunger and urban life, this book contributes to our understanding of important issues in...

This is the first published biography of Caroline Pratt, an innovative progressive educator who founded the City and Country School in Greenwich Village, New York, in 1914. It provides a feminist analysis of Pratt s life and work that adds a new dimension to our appreciation of her contributions to progressive education. Learning from Children also shows how an analysis of Pratt s work can inform our understanding of current critical issues in educational policy and practice. Caroline Pratt s story will enliven courses on history of education, foundations of early childhood education,...

What lies behind our need to rigorously document the thoughts, deeds, images, and sounds of everyday life? And more curiously, why would anyone want to spend time going over such material? At any given point someone is using a pen, a camera, a web cam, or a computer to document with varying degrees of detail, personal thoughts, observations, or glimpses of private space and life. And for each of these, there is usually at least one person reading, watching, and even responding. Saved from Oblivion is a comparative analysis of how individuals have used various media technologies to...

Since the publication of her first novel in 1992, Amelie Nothomb continues to engage and to provoke her readers through her exploration of the fluid boundaries between beauty and monstrosity, good and evil, fable and reality, as well as by her fascinating presentation of childhood, anorexia, and the abject. In Amelie Nothomb: Authorship, Identity and Narrative Practice, the first full-length study in English of Nothomb s work, these elements are presented and interpreted from a variety of perspectives, with the contributors focusing on a single novel or comparing different texts....

This work is the first comprehensive text in the field of psychohistory that presents both the theory and the practice of this interdisciplinary field. The presentation of psychoanalytic theory in this work includes the fundamental contributions made by Freud as well as the post-Freudian developments. Another unique feature of this work, because psychohistory is so controversial, is that the pros and cons are presented, thereby putting the field in better relief. This work accentuates how psychohistory differs from traditional history, and how psychohistory is more insightful in the study of...