Patriots or Traitors: A History of American Educated Chinese Students
ISBN: 9780765611864 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title sxplores the love-hate relationship between the USA and China through the experience of Chinese students caught between the two countries. The book sheds light on China's ambivelance towards the Western influence, and the use of educational and cultural exhanges as a political device.
This title sxplores the love-hate relationship between the USA and China through the experience of Chinese students caught between the two countries. ...
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660,05 zł |
When the North Was Red
ISBN: 9780773513365 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Early Soviet policy towards northern Native peoples was aimed at establishing Aboriginal nations that retained traditional languages and occupations and included Native peoples in Soviet institutions such as schools, collective farms, and the Communist Party. However, the success of these initiatives varied. While boarding schools provided new educational and occupational opportunities for Aboriginal peoples, traditional occupations and Native languages suffered. Focusing on the final years of the Soviet Union, the authors describe the efforts of Aboriginal political activists to address the...
Early Soviet policy towards northern Native peoples was aimed at establishing Aboriginal nations that retained traditional languages and occupations a...
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486,35 zł |
Children at Risk in America
ISBN: 9780791411988 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays addresses twentieth-century historical and contemporary issues regarding children who are considered to be at risk. The essays explore the language of risk as it is used by the courts, the schools, governmental agencies, and child advocates, those who discover risks and create correctives for children who both need protection and threaten to disturb the social order. The tasks require an exploration of differing, often contradictory, concepts of the child and society that are embedded in public policy debates. Deepening the complexity of the problems, institutions to...
This collection of essays addresses twentieth-century historical and contemporary issues regarding children who are considered to be at risk. The essa...
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144,14 zł |
Women's Higher Education in Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9780792308003 / Angielski / Twarda / 359 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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583,65 zł |
Rhetoric Reclaimed: Developmentalism in Brazil and Argentina
ISBN: 9780801432637 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thoroughly embedded in postmodern theory, this book offers a critique of traditional conceptions of the liberal arts, exploring the challenges posed by cultural diversity to the aims and methods of a humanist education. Janet M. Atwill investigates a neglected tradition of rhetoric, exemplified by Protagoras and Isocorates, and preserved in Aristotle's Rhetoric. This tradition was rooted in the ancient sophistic and platonic conceptions of techne, or productive knowledge, that appears both in literary texts from the seventh century B.C.E. and in medical and technical treatises from the... Thoroughly embedded in postmodern theory, this book offers a critique of traditional conceptions of the liberal arts, exploring the challenges pose... |
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258,94 zł |
Locating American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline
ISBN: 9780801860560 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Locating American Studies is a collection of seventeen essays first printed in American Quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association. To mark the Association's celebration of its 50th anniversary in 1998, Lucy Maddox has brought together works by a distinguished group of scholars which "provide a useful window into the history and the evolution of the practice of American studies from its early, formational days to the present." Each essay, originally published between 1950 and 1996, is accompanied by a commentary in which a scholar from a related field... Locating American Studies is a collection of seventeen essays first printed in American Quarterly, the journal of the American Studi... |
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173,70 zł |
The Universities of the Italian Renaissance
ISBN: 9780801880551 / Angielski / Miękka / 616 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Italian Renaissance universities were Europe's intellectual leaders in humanistic studies, law, medicine, philosophy, and science. Employing some of the foremost scholars of the time--including Pietro Pomponazzi, Andreas Vesalius, and Galileo Galilei--the Italian Renaissance university was the prototype of today's research university. This is the first book in any language to offer a comprehensive study of this most influential institution. In this magisterial study, noted scholar Paul F. Grendler offers a detailed and authoritative account of the universities of Renaissance Italy.... Italian Renaissance universities were Europe's intellectual leaders in humanistic studies, law, medicine, philosophy, and science. Employing some o... |
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211,33 zł |
Envisioning Black Colleges: A History of the United Negro College Fund
ISBN: 9780801886041 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Etched into America's consciousness is the United Negro College Fund's phrase -A mind is a terrible thing to waste.- This book tells the multifaceted story of the organization's efforts on behalf of black colleges against the backdrop of the cold war and the civil rights movement. Founded during the post-World War II period as a successor to white philanthropic efforts, the UNCF nevertheless retained vestiges of outside control. In its early years, the organization was restrained in its critique of segregation and reluctant to lodge a challenge against institutional and cultural... Etched into America's consciousness is the United Negro College Fund's phrase -A mind is a terrible thing to waste.- This book tells the multifacet... |
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302,72 zł |
Sociology of Higher Education: Contributions and Their Contexts
ISBN: 9780801886157 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this volume, Patricia Gumport and other leading scholars examine the sociology of higher education as it has evolved since the publication of Burton Clark's foundational article in 1973. They trace diverse conceptual and empirical developments along several major lines of specialization and analyze the ways in which wider societal and institutional changes in higher education have influenced this vital field of study. In her own chapters, Gumport identifies the factors that constrain or facilitate the field's development, including different intellectual legacies and professional... In this volume, Patricia Gumport and other leading scholars examine the sociology of higher education as it has evolved since the publication of Bu... |
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163,01 zł |
Capitalizing Knowledge: Essays on the History of Business Education in Canada
ISBN: 9780802042347 / Angielski / Twarda / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interpreting the path of the future is made easier by understanding the past. In light of this adage, Capitalizing Knowledge examines the history of Canadian business faculties in their search for professional legitimacy. As the title suggests, this volume is an overview of the development of business schools in Canadian universities. Business faculties have different characteristics; some are noted for generating management research, while others generate interaction with the business community. Some programs are famous for their MBA graduates, others for their undergraduate... Interpreting the path of the future is made easier by understanding the past. In light of this adage, Capitalizing Knowledge examines the ... |
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350,33 zł |
Indian Education in the American Colonies, 1607-1783
ISBN: 9780803259669 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Armed with Bible and primer, missionaries and teachers in colonial America sought, in their words, "to Christianize and civilize the native heathen." Both the attempts to transform Indians via schooling and the Indians' reaction to such efforts are closely studied for the first time in Indian Education in the American Colonies, 1607-1783. Margaret Connell Szasz's remarkable synthesis of archival and published materials is a detailed and engaging story told from both Indian and European perspectives. Szasz argues that the most intriguing dimension of colonial Indian education came with the...
Armed with Bible and primer, missionaries and teachers in colonial America sought, in their words, "to Christianize and civilize the native heathen." ...
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107,15 zł |
Out of Women′s Experience: Creating Relational Leadership
ISBN: 9780803962347 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative book proposes a new model for comprehensive and effective leadership, drawn from the personal experiences and accounts of female educational leaders. The authors demonstrate how women conceptualize and practice their educational leadership roles in ways that differ significantly from most of their male counterparts. In redefining these differences as 'relational leadership', Regan and Brooks suggest that the attributes and skills that women bring to leadership are accessible and valuable to female and male school leaders alike.
This innovative book proposes a new model for comprehensive and effective leadership, drawn from the personal experiences and accounts of female educa...
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96,42 zł |
Seeking Modernity in China's Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1927
ISBN: 9780804736961 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The students who came to the United States in the early twentieth century to become modern Chinese by studying at American universities played pivotal roles in Chinese intellectual, economic, and diplomatic life upon their return to China. These former students exemplified key aspects of Chinese "modernity," introducing new social customs, new kinds of interpersonal relationships, new ways of associating in groups, and a new way of life in general. Although there have been books about a few especially well-known persons among them, this is the first book in either English or Chinese to study...
The students who came to the United States in the early twentieth century to become modern Chinese by studying at American universities played pivotal...
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340,18 zł |
The Lebanese Connection: Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic
ISBN: 9780804738620 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For almost two centuries, Americans expected that their public schools would cultivate the personal, moral, and social development of individual students, create citizens, and bind diverse groups into one nation. Since the 1980s, however, a new generation of school reformers has been intent on using schools to solve the nation's economic problems. An economic justification for public schools--equipping students with marketable skills to help the nation compete in a global, information-based workplace--overwhelmed other historically accepted purposes for tax-supported public schools. Private...
For almost two centuries, Americans expected that their public schools would cultivate the personal, moral, and social development of individual stude...
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634,66 zł |
Reconstructing the Common Good in Education: Coping with Intractable American Dilemmas
ISBN: 9780804738637 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For almost two centuries, Americans expected that their public schools would cultivate the personal, moral, and social development of individual students, create citizens, and bind diverse groups into one nation. Since the 1980s, however, a new generation of school reformers has been intent on using schools to solve the nation's economic problems. An economic justification for public schools--equipping students with marketable skills to help the nation compete in a global, information-based workplace--overwhelmed other historically accepted purposes for tax-supported public schools. ...For almost two centuries, Americans expected that their public schools would cultivate the personal, moral, and social development of individual st... |
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152,27 zł |
Fred Terman at Stanford: Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley
ISBN: 9780804749145 / Angielski / Twarda / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Stewart Gillmor has chronicled a grand saga, illuminating how Fred Terman-pragmatic engineer, inspiring teacher, visionary academic administrator-catalyzed the extraordinary rise of Stanford to the top rank of universities and its symbiotic creation of far-reaching economic and social capital. This fine book, comprehensive and acutely insightful, documents the transforming power of intellectual readership.- -Dudley Herschbach, Harvard University, Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1986
-Stewart Gillmor has chronicled a grand saga, illuminating how Fred Terman-pragmatic engineer, inspiring teacher, visionary academic administrator-cat...
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411,26 zł |
Learning to Write Indian: The Boarding School Experience and American Indian Literature
ISBN: 9780806138527 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Examines Indian boarding school narratives and their impact on the Native literary tradition from 1879 to the present" Indian boarding schools were the lynchpins of a federally sponsored system of forced assimilation. These schools, located off-reservation, took Native children from their families and tribes for years at a time in an effort to kill their tribal cultures, languages, and religions. In "Learning to Write Indian, " Amelia V. Katanski investigates the impact of the Indian boarding school experience on the American Indian literary tradition through an examination of... "Examines Indian boarding school narratives and their impact on the Native literary tradition from 1879 to the present" Indian boarding schools w... |
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138,27 zł |
Light on the Hill: A History of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ISBN: 9780807855713 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1795 the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill became the first state university in the United States to open its doors to students. As the celebrated institution prepared to observe its bicentennial, William Snider provided a rich chronicle of its history.
Snider describes the signal events of the university's first two hundred years: the chartering and siting of a charming campus and village; the trying years of the Civil War and Reconstruction, during which the University closed its doors; the period of remarkable renewal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth... In 1795 the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill became the first state university in the United States to open its doors to students. As the c...
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202,91 zł |
Pillars of the Republic
ISBN: 9780809001545 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pillars of the Republic is a pioneering study of common-school development in the years before the Civil War. Public acceptance of state school systems, Kaestle argues, was encouraged by the people's commitment to republican government, by their trust in Protestant values, and by the development of capitalism. The author also examines the opposition to the Founding Fathers' educational ideas and shows what effects these had on our school system. Pillars of the Republic is a pioneering study of common-school development in the years before the Civil War. Public acceptance of state sch... |
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103,07 zł |
Breaking Away from the Textbook: Creative Ways to Teach World History, Volume II
ISBN: 9780810837607 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume offers teachers a different method of teaching world history. It focuses on active classroom activities, methods for students to grapple with humanity's issues, and innovative ways to show students the relevance of the past to the modern world. The book incorporates various disciplines including art, music, and writing in an attempt to create a fun and active classroom. Volume II covers three major units: The Enlightenment; the 19th century; and the 20th century.
This volume offers teachers a different method of teaching world history. It focuses on active classroom activities, methods for students to grapple w...
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256,54 zł |