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Wherever I Go, I Will Always Be a Loyal American: Schooling Seattle's Japanese Americans During World War II
ISBN: 9780415932356 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wherever I Go I'll Always Be a Loyal American is the story of how the Seattle public schools responded to the news of its Japanese American (Nisei) students' internment upon the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 14, 1942. Drawing upon previously untapped letters and compositions written by the students themselves during the time in which the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the internment order took place, Pak explores how the schools and their students attempted to cope with evident contradiction and dissonance in democracy and citizenship....
Wherever I Go I'll Always Be a Loyal American is the story of how the Seattle public schools responded to the news of its Japanese American (...
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Children of the Mill : Schooling and Society in Gary, Indiana, 1906-1960
ISBN: 9780415934664 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gary, Indiana was founded in 1906 and was part of the US Steel Corporation's plan to build the world's largest steel mill. The city's school system became world-famous as a progressive educational experiment until the 1930s when a changing political and economic climate led to an erosion of the system, which faced a serious overcrowding crisis in the 1950s. Blending social and intellectual history, the author examines the economic, political, and cultural context of the unique educational experience developed in this urban industrial centre.
Gary, Indiana was founded in 1906 and was part of the US Steel Corporation's plan to build the world's largest steel mill. The city's school system be...
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203,14 |
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Teach the Nation: Pedagogies of Racial Uplift in U.S. Women's Writing of the 1890s
ISBN: 9780415935340 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is knowledge power? This work explores the history and contradictions in the notion that education and literacy are vital means for improving social and political status in the US. By closely examining the rapidly shifting social context of education and the emerging literature by and for African-American women during the 1890s, Anne-Elizabeth Murdy shows that the histories of education and literature are deeply connected and argues that their current lives must be regarded as mutually dependent. Teach the Nation offers an understanding of literacy and pedagogical study and identifies how...
Is knowledge power? This work explores the history and contradictions in the notion that education and literacy are vital means for improving social a...
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701,49 |
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Crisis and Hope: The Educational Hopscotch of Latin America
ISBN: 9780415935357 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book seeks to offer the most up-to-date and relevant sample of contemporary research on Latin American education, by inviting the reader to understand the complexities, heterogenetics, nightmares, dreams, crisis and promises of education in the region.
This book seeks to offer the most up-to-date and relevant sample of contemporary research on Latin American education, by inviting the reader to under...
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169,28 |
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Limitations and Possibilities of Dialogue Among Researchers, Policymakers, and Practitioners: International Perspectives on the Field of Education
ISBN: 9780415945455 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A description of the contemporary rural condition and efforts to sustain rural life in one small Minnesota community at the turn of the 21st century. Like many other agricultural based towns, Prairie Town struggled for survival within the context of the on-going farm crisis, NAFTA, neoliberal agricultural policies and growing agribusiness that negatively impacted many farmers throughout the world. The effects of globalization, the displacement of rural workers to urban areas and the deterioration of rural life were a widespread phenomenon. In spite of these complex issues, Prairie Town worked...
A description of the contemporary rural condition and efforts to sustain rural life in one small Minnesota community at the turn of the 21st century. ...
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677,30 |
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Re-Imagining Comparative Education: Postfoundational Ideas and Applications for Critical Times
ISBN: 9780415948173 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The original essays included here, by up and coming scholars in the field, illustrate the potential and diversity of post-foundational ideas as applied to comparative education concerns.
The original essays included here, by up and coming scholars in the field, illustrate the potential and diversity of post-foundational ideas as applie...
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725,69 |
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The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958
ISBN: 9780415948906 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 1987, the first edition of The Struggle for the American Curriculum was a classic in curriculum studies and in the history of education. This new third edition is thoroughly revised and updated, and includes two new chapters on the renewed attacks on the subject curriculum in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as the way individual school subjects evolved over time and were affected by these attacks.
Published in 1987, the first edition of The Struggle for the American Curriculum was a classic in curriculum studies and in the hist...
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846,63 |
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The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958
ISBN: 9780415948913 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 1987, the first edition of The Struggle for the American Curriculum was a classic in curriculum studies and in the history of education. This new third edition is thoroughly revised and updated, and includes two new chapters on the renewed attacks on the subject curriculum in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as the way individual school subjects evolved over time and were affected by these attacks.
Published in 1987, the first edition of The Struggle for the American Curriculum was a classic in curriculum studies and in the hist...
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266,04 |
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Indonesian Education: Teachers, Schools, and Central Bureaucracy
ISBN: 9780415974448 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indonesian Education: Teachers, Schools, and Central Authority, the first published study of life inside Indonesian schools, explores the role that classroom teachers' behavior and locates their actions within the broader cultures of education and government in Indonesia.
Indonesian Education: Teachers, Schools, and Central Authority, the first published study of life inside Indonesian schools, explore...
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701,49 |
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History of Multicultural Education, 6 - Volume Set
ISBN: 9780415988896 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A 6-volume set that documents, analyzes, and critiques a comprehensive body of research on the history of multicultural education in the US. It provides a means of understanding and visualizing the development, implementation, and interpretation of multicultural education in American society.
A 6-volume set that documents, analyzes, and critiques a comprehensive body of research on the history of multicultural education in the US. It provid...
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2273,81 |
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Emile: Or on Education
ISBN: 9780465019311 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alan Bloom's new translation of Emile, Rousseau's masterpiece on the education and training of the young, is the first in more than seventy years. In it, Bloom, whose magnificent translation of Plato's Republic has been universally hailed as a virtual rediscovery of that timeless text, again brings together the translator's gift for journeying between two languages and cultures and the philosopher's perception of the true meaning and significance of the issues being examined in the work. The result is a clear, readable, and highly engrossing text that at the same time offers a...
Alan Bloom's new translation of Emile, Rousseau's masterpiece on the education and training of the young, is the first in more than seventy yea...
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127,31 |
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To Open Minds
ISBN: 9780465086290 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this unique attempt to address the dilemma in contemporary education, the noted cognitive scientist weaves the lessons garnered from three vantage points: his own traditional education as an American child, his years of research on creativity at Harvard, and what he saw in modern Chinese classrooms--into a program that draws on the best of both modes, traditional and progressive.
In this unique attempt to address the dilemma in contemporary education, the noted cognitive scientist weaves the lessons garnered from three vantage ...
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117,08 |
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The Troubled Crusade
ISBN: 9780465087570 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This widely praised history of the controversies that have beset American schools and universities since World War II is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the condition of America
This widely praised history of the controversies that have beset American schools and universities since World War II is essential reading for anyone ...
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Schoolbook Nation: Conflicts Over American History Textbooks from the Civil War to the Present
ISBN: 9780472030538 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A superior book. . . . Many readers will be surprised to see that today's arguments about history education follow the culture wars that go back to almost the beginning of the republic. Moreau's writing is engaging, with brilliant flashes of insight, as well as balance and wit."
-Gary B. Nash, Director of the National Center for History in the Schools Taking Frances FitzGerald's textbook study America Revised as a point of departure, Joseph Moreau in Schoolbook Nation challenges FitzGerald's premise that the 1960s were the beginning of the end of the glory days of... "A superior book. . . . Many readers will be surprised to see that today's arguments about history education follow the culture wars that go back to a...
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120,71 |
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Ivory Towers and Nationalist Minds: Universities, Leadership, and the Development of the American State
ISBN: 9780472069125 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ivory Towers and Nationalist Minds traces the rise of the great American universities through their formative years, 1862-1920, examining the role of these schools and their leadership in shaping American politics and public policy. Nemec's provocative study demonstrates that universities provided the intellectual and institutional apparatus needed to legitimize federal authority. His work challenges existing scholarship by documenting how the influx of academic expertise into the developing American state was fostered by campus entrepreneurs seeking to establish the social relevance...
Ivory Towers and Nationalist Minds traces the rise of the great American universities through their formative years, 1862-1920, examining the r...
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125,54 |
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The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System: Detroit, 1907-81, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780472086498 / Angielski / Miękka / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Detroit's public school system, lauded as a model for the nation in the 1920s and 1930s, has become one of the city's most conspicuous failures. Jeffrey Mirel draws on Detroit's experience to offer a new interpretation of urban educational decline in the twentieth century, suggesting specific answers to what ails America's public schools and how public education can be improved. Jeffrey Mirel has won two prestigious book awards for The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System. Stanford University and the American Educational Research Association awarded the book the 1994-95... Detroit's public school system, lauded as a model for the nation in the 1920s and 1930s, has become one of the city's most conspicuous failures. Je... |
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A Brief History of the University of California
ISBN: 9780520243903 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This concise book tells the absorbing story of the development of one of the greatest public institutions in the country. Beginning with the land grant that established a university in California, the accessible narrative takes the reader through the difficulties and triumphs of the institution as it rose to the peak of scientific and scholarly stature, where it stands today. Included is a discussion of why the University of California is unique among institutions of higher learning, a chronicle of past university presidents and the particular contributions each made to the institution, an...
This concise book tells the absorbing story of the development of one of the greatest public institutions in the country. Beginning with the land gran...
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Pedagogy, Intellectuals, and Dissent in the Later Middle Ages: Lollardy and Ideas of Learning
ISBN: 9780521023023 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about the place of pedagogy and the role of intellectuals in medieval dissent. Focusing on the medieval English heresy known as Lollardy, Rita Copeland shows how how radical teachers transformed inherited ideas about classrooms and pedagogy as they brought their teaching to adult learners. The pedagogical imperatives of Lollard dissent were also embodied in the work of certain public figures, intellectuals whose dissident careers transformed the social category of the medieval intellectual.
This book is about the place of pedagogy and the role of intellectuals in medieval dissent. Focusing on the medieval English heresy known as Lollardy,...
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The Modern University and Its Discontents: The Fate of Newman's Legacies in Britain and America
ISBN: 9780521025010 / Angielski / Miękka / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This series of interlinked essays takes the form of historical 'voyages' around the Victorian intellectual John Henry Newman, and Newman's classic work The idea of a university, as well as changes in the structure and culture of universities occurring in Newman's lifetime. The voyages connect nineteenth- and twentieth-century university history, mainly in Britain and the United States but with side excursions to continental Europe. Among the many important topics discussed are the history of student communities in Oxford and Cambridge, the growth of a modern examinations culture, university...
This series of interlinked essays takes the form of historical 'voyages' around the Victorian intellectual John Henry Newman, and Newman's classic wor...
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315,75 |
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An Educational War on Poverty: American and British Policy-Making 1960-1980
ISBN: 9780521025867 / Angielski / Miękka / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Education was a critical focus of the "war on poverty" declared by President Johnson in 1964. U.S. policy built on research, and experiments being conducted in the early 1960s produced major programs such as the preschool Head Start and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 1965. In this major transatlantic study two senior educationalists examine both these developments and similar processes in Britain--notably the Plowden report of 1967. The Silvers examine the shift of attention in Britain from social class and the secondary school to poverty and the primary and preschool stage, and...
Education was a critical focus of the "war on poverty" declared by President Johnson in 1964. U.S. policy built on research, and experiments being con...
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