Doors of Possibility: The Life of Emmeline Tanner 1876-1955
ISBN: 9780718829223 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Relying chiefly on unpublished material, Doors of Possibility examines the significant changes to girls' secondary education between the 1880s and the 1940s, through the life of a lady who, born into the lower middle-classes, made her own way working in schools to become head of Roedean and a leader of headmistresses, articulating and defining the hopes and needs of her time. She epitomised the values and attitudes which formed developments in girls' education in England. Dame Emmeline Tanner started teaching at the age of 13 years, and the book examines the problems faced by a late-Victorian...
Relying chiefly on unpublished material, Doors of Possibility examines the significant changes to girls' secondary education between the 1880s and the...
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398,70 zł |
Universities, Think Tanks and War Colleges: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780738804323 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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151,31 zł |
Universities, Think Tanks and War Colleges: The Main Institutions of American Educational Life - A Memoir
ISBN: 9780738804330 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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100,42 zł |
The French Educator Celestin Freinet (1896-1966): An Inquiry Into How His Ideas Shaped Education
ISBN: 9780739119235 / Angielski / Twarda / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book demonstrates how Celestin Freinet influenced education. He was a pioneer in incorporating technology into the classroom.
This book demonstrates how Celestin Freinet influenced education. He was a pioneer in incorporating technology into the classroom.
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447,36 zł |
The French Educator Celestin Freinet (1896-1966): An Inquiry Into How His Ideas Shaped Education
ISBN: 9780739119242 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book demonstrates how Celestin Freinet influenced education. He was a pioneer in incorporating technology into the classroom.
This book demonstrates how Celestin Freinet influenced education. He was a pioneer in incorporating technology into the classroom.
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231,97 zł |
Loyal Sons & Daughters: A Notre Dame Memoir
ISBN: 9780742522749 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1972, after 125 years of all-male education, the University of Notre Dame went coed. These pages collect the memoriesJean Lenz, O.S.F., rectress of the all-female dormitory Farley Hall during that first year when loyal daughters joined the loyal sons of Notre Dame. Loyal Sons and Daughters gives readers a glimpse of what life was like for that first class of women, and for the men who welcomed them. It was a pivotal time for a campus so steeped in tradition. Sister Lenz was right in the middle of it all as the daughters of Notre Dame wrote new stories at the country's most storied Catholic...
In 1972, after 125 years of all-male education, the University of Notre Dame went coed. These pages collect the memoriesJean Lenz, O.S.F., rectress of...
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138,08 zł |
Crossing the Water: Eighteen Months on an Island Working with Troubled Boys-A Teacher's Memoir
ISBN: 9780743202503 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Off the coast of Cape Cod lies a small windswept island called Penikese. Alone on the island is a school for juvenile delinquents, the Penikese Island School, where Daniel Robb lived and worked for three years as a teacher. By turns harsh, desolate, and starkly beautiful, the island offers its temporary residents respite from lives filled with abuse, violence, and chaos. But as Robb discovers, peace, solitude, and a structured lifestyle can go only so far toward healing the anger and hurt he finds not only in his students but within himself.
Lyrical and heartfelt, Crossing the... Off the coast of Cape Cod lies a small windswept island called Penikese. Alone on the island is a school for juvenile delinquents, the Penikese Island...
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82,95 zł |
Teacher Man
ISBN: 9780743243780 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, mega-bestselling author who wore his celebrity with extraordinary grace comes a magnificently appealing book about teaching and about how one great storyteller found his voice. Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary scene with Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland. Then came 'Tis, his glorious account of his early years in New York. Now, here at last is McCourt's long-awaited book about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped...
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, mega-bestselling author who wore his celebrity with extraordinary grace comes a magnificently appealing book about te...
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78,58 zł |
The Road to Home: My Life and Times
ISBN: 9780743255653 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this humorous, learned, and moving memoir, Vartan Gregorian recounts his journey from an impoverished childhood as a Christian Armenian in Muslim Tabriz to cultured citizen of the world.
Gregorian's odyssey begins in an obscure poor quarter of a provincial city (thought by some to be the location of the Garden of Eden). Childhood centered on his brilliant, beloved, illiterate grandmother who taught him so much, the beauty of Church, school, American movies, and the larger world he read about in his borrowed books. From there, he continued on to a Beirut lycee, Stanford University, and... In this humorous, learned, and moving memoir, Vartan Gregorian recounts his journey from an impoverished childhood as a Christian Armenian in Muslim T...
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100,42 zł |
Against the Tide: An Autobiographical Account of a Professional Outsider
ISBN: 9780750306904 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Against the Tide: An Autobiographical Account of a Professional Outsider, Leslie Woods relates the fascinating story of his life from fisherman's son in New Zealand to head of the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford. After starting at a trade school, he won a scholarship to a university, then joined the RNZAF, and later became a fighter pilot in the Pacific. Woods then won a Rhodes scholarship to Merton College in Oxford after WWII. Following several years of research in aerodynamics, he became a professor of engineering at the University of New South Wales. He also had a...
In Against the Tide: An Autobiographical Account of a Professional Outsider, Leslie Woods relates the fascinating story of his life from fisherman's s...
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918,20 zł |
The Passionate Mind of Maxine Greene: 'I Am ... Not Yet'
ISBN: 9780750708128 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maxine Greene is the most important philosopher of education in the United States today. The author of Teacher as Stranger (1973), Landscapes of Learning (1978), Dialectic of Freedom (1988), and Releasing the Imagination (1995), Greene has influenced tens of thousands of teachers in North America as well as her colleagues in philosophy of education, teacher education, and curriculum studies. While widely cited, Greene has not - until now - been the subject of sustained scholarly analysis and investigation. William F. Pinar has organized a systematic study...
Maxine Greene is the most important philosopher of education in the United States today. The author of Teacher as Stranger (1973), Landsc...
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918,20 zł |
The Passionate Mind of Maxine Greene: 'I Am ... Not Yet'
ISBN: 9780750708784 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maxine Greene is the most important philosopher of education in the United States today. The author of Teacher as Stranger (1973), Landscapes of Learning (1978), Dialectic of Freedom (1988), and Releasing the Imagination (1995), Greene has influenced tens of thousands of teachers in North America as well as her colleagues in philosophy of education, teacher education, and curriculum studies. While widely cited, Greene has not - until now - been the subject of sustained scholarly analysis and investigation. William F. Pinar has organized a systematic study...
Maxine Greene is the most important philosopher of education in the United States today. The author of Teacher as Stranger (1973), Landsc...
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278,03 zł |
A Teacher's Touch: Reaching Beyond Boundaries
ISBN: 9780759620940 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nancy, had nubs in the place of fingers Lonnie, the first black male teacher in a southern, white school uses school lesson to teach students to reach beyond the boundaries of physical and social stigmas.
Nancy, had nubs in the place of fingers Lonnie, the first black male teacher in a southern, white school uses school lesson to teach students to reach...
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85,76 zł |
My Mother's Garden
ISBN: 9780759638082 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,67 zł |
Follow in His Footsteps: The Adventures of My Father
ISBN: 9780759651890 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A true story of the life of John Holst and his place in history. He began his life on a Missouri farm and went west to Idaho and Montana for adventure. His daughter Barbara retraced his footsteps in 2000 to understand his quest.
A true story of the life of John Holst and his place in history. He began his life on a Missouri farm and went west to Idaho and Montana for adventure...
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103,70 zł |
Pipe Dreams: One Teacher's Journey
ISBN: 9780759692800 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A nonfiction memoir of an eight-year journey teaching emotionally disturbed children. Written by their teacher, this unique account is fascinating, humorous, and conveys the inner workings of public school. (Education/Teaching)
A nonfiction memoir of an eight-year journey teaching emotionally disturbed children. Written by their teacher, this unique account is fascinating, hu...
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70,17 zł |
Work and Academic Politics: A Journeyman's Story
ISBN: 9780765800800 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the course of a long and distinguished academic career William Form has gained renown as a major scholar in the areas of American labor politics, institutional analysis, and educational issues surrounding the experience of ethnicity and assimilation. Much of his scholarly work derived from his own experience as the son of Italian immigrants in the early twentieth century seeking integration into the mainstream of American society. As with other American ethnic groups the entrance into elementary, secondary and higher education involved sacrifice and gain. Moreover, the period of... Over the course of a long and distinguished academic career William Form has gained renown as a major scholar in the areas of American labor politi... |
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456,42 zł |
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
ISBN: 9780767905923 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A special 20th anniversary edition of the beloved international bestseller that changed millions of lives
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and... A special 20th anniversary edition of the beloved international bestseller that changed millions of lives
Maybe it was a g... |
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74,26 zł |
Teach with Your Heart: Lessons I Learned from the Freedom Writers
ISBN: 9780767915847 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this passionate, poignant, and deeply personal memoir and call to arms, Erin Gruwell, the dynamic young teacher who nurtured a remarkable group of high school students from Long Beach, California, who called themselves the Freedom Writers, picks up where The Freedom Writers Diary--and the hit movie The Freedom Writers--left off and brings the reader up to date on where the Freedom Writers are today. Including their unforgettable trip to Auschwitz, where they met with Holocaust survivors; their tour of the attic of their beloved Anne Frank; and their visit to Bosnia with their...
In this passionate, poignant, and deeply personal memoir and call to arms, Erin Gruwell, the dynamic young teacher who nurtured a remarkable group of ...
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91,73 zł |
Uncle Tom or New Negro?: African Americans Reflect on Booker T. Washington and Up from Slavery 100 Years Later
ISBN: 9780767919555 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the ninetieth anniversary of Booker T. Washington s death comes a passionate, provocative dialogue on his complicated legacy, including the complete text of his classic autobiography, "Up from Slavery."
Booker T. Washington was born a slave in 1858, yet roughly forty years later he had established the Tuskegee Institute. Befriended by a U.S. president and corporate titans, beloved and reviled by the black community, Washington was one of the most influential voices on the postslavery scene. But Washington s message of gradual accommodation was accepted by some and rejected by others,... On the ninetieth anniversary of Booker T. Washington s death comes a passionate, provocative dialogue on his complicated legacy, including the complet...
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117,94 zł |