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History Education 101: The Past, Present, and Future of Teacher Preparation (PB)
ISBN: 9781593118600 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historians and teacher educators nationwide are now engaged in discussions about the importance of history teacher preparation. Interest within the history profession about the teaching of K-12 history has increased significantly during the past two decades, particularly since the controversy over the National Standards for History's publication. This attention is evident not only in the historical professions' various publications, but also in the federal government's multi-million dollar Teaching American History Program and the No Child Left Behind Act. Professional historians are...
Historians and teacher educators nationwide are now engaged in discussions about the importance of history teacher preparation. Interest within the hi...
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229,64 |
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21st Century Education: A Reference Handbook
ISBN: 9781412950114 / Angielski / Twarda / 1032 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 21st Century Education: A Reference Handbook offers 100 chapters written by leading experts in the field that highlight the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates facing educators today. This comprehensive and authoritative two-volume work provides undergraduate education majors with insight into the rich array of issues inherent in education--issues informing debates that involve all Americans. Key Features: - Provides undergraduate majors with an authoritative reference source ideal for their classroom research needs, preparation... 21st Century Education: A Reference Handbook offers 100 chapters written by leading experts in the field that highlight the mo... |
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1745,23 |
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From Classroom to Courtroom
ISBN: 9781434350626 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Classroom to Courtroom tells the story of how fifteen American university academics in a Middle Eastern Studies department got embroiled in serious unacademic conflicts with serious consequences. From 1994 onward, these academic colleagues made or faced official complaints and allegations of favoritism, intimidation, abuse, harassment, and racism, and charges of prevarication and dishonesty, and ethnic, religious, and gender discrimination. They initiated three or four faculty grievances. An exodus of graduate students from the department consequently took place. Five or six faculty...
From Classroom to Courtroom tells the story of how fifteen American university academics in a Middle Eastern Studies department got embroiled in serio...
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65,54 |
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From Classroom to Courtroom
ISBN: 9781434350640 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Classroom to Courtroom tells the story of how fifteen American university academics in a Middle Eastern Studies department got embroiled in serious unacademic conflicts with serious consequences. From 1994 onward, these academic colleagues made or faced official complaints and allegations of favoritism, intimidation, abuse, harassment, and racism, and charges of prevarication and dishonesty, and ethnic, religious, and gender discrimination. They initiated three or four faculty grievances. An exodus of graduate students from the department consequently took place. Five or six faculty...
From Classroom to Courtroom tells the story of how fifteen American university academics in a Middle Eastern Studies department got embroiled in serio...
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113,03 |
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University Politics: F.M. Cornford's Cambridge and His Advice to the Young Academic Politician
ISBN: 9780521897891 / Angielski / Twarda / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This entertaining account of Cambridge around the turn of the twentieth century contains the centenary edition of the complete text of F. M. Cornford's famous satire of 1908 on university politics, Microcosmographia Academica, together with a full account of the controversies which gave rise to it. Cambridge during this period was being subjected to pressure for reform from within and outside the University, forcing it to radical social and academic change, above all by extending and altering the curriculum and by admitting women. All these matters, many of which remain in debate at the...
This entertaining account of Cambridge around the turn of the twentieth century contains the centenary edition of the complete text of F. M. Cornford'...
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313,96 |
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The Sophists: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780715636954 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Sophists were bold, exciting innovators with new ideas about Athenian society. The first to arrive, in about 444 BC, was Protagoras. During the last half of the fifth century BC he was followed by a succession of 'new age' itinerant instructors who were skilled in teaching. Mainly they taught the young ambitious men of Athens, instilling in them the skills they sought in order to become successful, that is, rich and influential. The Athenians flocked to hear them and enrol in their courses. The Sophists dared to charge high fees for their instruction and their students willingly... The Sophists were bold, exciting innovators with new ideas about Athenian society. The first to arrive, in about 444 BC, was Protagoras. During the... |
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184,17 |
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With All Deliberate Speed: Implementing Brown V. Board of Education
ISBN: 9781557288691 / Angielski / Miękka / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first effort to provide a broad assessment of how well the Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared an end to segregated schools in the United States was implemented. Written by a distinguished group of historians, the twelve essays in this collection examine how African Americans and their supporters in twelve states--Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Delaware, Missouri, Indiana, Nevada, and Wisconsin--dealt with the Court's mandate to desegregate -with all deliberate speed.- The process followed many diverse paths. Some...
This is the first effort to provide a broad assessment of how well the Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared an end to segregated schools...
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116,30 |
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History Education 101: The Past, Present, and Future of Teacher Preparation (Hc)
ISBN: 9781593118617 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historians and teacher educators nationwide are now engaged in discussions about the importance of history teacher preparation. Interest within the history profession about the teaching of K-12 history has increased significantly during the past two decades, particularly since the controversy over the National Standards for History's publication. This attention is evident not only in the historical professions' various publications, but also in the federal government's multi-million dollar Teaching American History Program and the No Child Left Behind Act. Professional historians are...
Historians and teacher educators nationwide are now engaged in discussions about the importance of history teacher preparation. Interest within the hi...
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408,24 |
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No Niggers or Dogs Allowed- The Reexamination of the Brownsville Affair
ISBN: 9783836434164 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The argument of reparations on behalf of African-Americans based on slavery
continues well into the 21st Century here in America. Can a gross miscarriage of injustice in 1906 sway the arguments for compensatory damages become valid based on racism? The case of the all-black 25th Infantry of the United States Army in the Brownsville Affair is perhaps one of the most egregious events in American history. On the night of August 13, 1906, a group of anonymous men went on a shooting rampage throughout the town of Brownsville, Texas, leaving one person dead and another wounded. There had... The argument of reparations on behalf of African-Americans based on slavery
continues well into the 21st Century here in America. Can a gross misc... |
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193,11 |
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Bildung und Briefe im 6. Jahrhundert
ISBN: 9783110199550 / Angielski / Twarda / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Der Mailander Diakon Ennodius (er wurde ca. 513 Bischof von Pavia) hat ein vielfaltiges Werk hinterlassen, das zunachst vorgestellt wird (u.a. christliche Hymnen und einen Panegyricus auf Theoderich). Die bisher ubersehene Tatsache, dass er fruher als Redner und Dichter aufgetreten ist und eventuell auch Lehrer war, kann erklaren, warum er die Angehorigen der romischen Oberschicht so intensiv dazu auffordert, sich um Bildung zu bemuhen, und dass er sich als Tutor um einige Jungen kummert. Dabei spricht er von einer Spannung zwischen seiner Tatigkeit als Diakon und seiner Begeisterung fur... Der Mailander Diakon Ennodius (er wurde ca. 513 Bischof von Pavia) hat ein vielfaltiges Werk hinterlassen, das zunachst vorgestellt wird (u.a. chri... |
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635,69 |
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Women Pioneers of Public Education: How Culture Came to the Wild West
ISBN: 9780230608351 / Angielski / Twarda / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book narrates the story of how the school, founded by women pioneers of public education in a Rocky Mountain mining settlement, became the centre and sustaining force of the town's community life from its beginning in the 1870s to the present day.
The book narrates the story of how the school, founded by women pioneers of public education in a Rocky Mountain mining settlement, became the centre ...
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200,77 |
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Philadelphia's Progressive Orphanage: The Carson Valley School
ISBN: 9780271027715 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than seventy-five years, the Carson Valley School has served the needs of orphaned girls and other dependent children from Philadelphia and neighboring Pennsylvania counties. Its hundred-acre campus is remarkable for its rolling terrain, neo-medieval buildings, and design as a fantasy village. A legacy of the progressive education movement of the early decades of the twentieth century, the school was formally opened in 1918 as the Carson College for Orphan Girls. Its first president, Elsa Ueland, was a former settlement house worker who was a student of John Dewey and Maria... For more than seventy-five years, the Carson Valley School has served the needs of orphaned girls and other dependent children from Philadelphia an... |
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135,50 |
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Teaching beyond Teaching
ISBN: 9783836437240 / Angielski / Miękka / 508 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates the relationship between a given individuals life experiences and how those experiences determine, shape, and impact on his society. Specifically, it examines the role of Geoffrey William Griffin in the evolution and growth of Kenyan education. It uses leadership and relationality theories to interpret his involvement in Kenyan education. In this exploration, the study seeks to gain an understanding of the person of Griffin, identifies and examines forces that accounted for his involvement in Kenyan education and interprets how his establishment of Starehe Boys Centre...
This book investigates the relationship between a given individuals life experiences and how those experiences determine, shape, and impact on his soc...
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363,22 |
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University Politics: F.M. Cornford's Cambridge and His Advice to the Young Academic Politician
ISBN: 9780521723732 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This entertaining account of Cambridge around the turn of the twentieth century contains the centenary edition of the complete text of F. M. Cornford's famous satire of 1908 on university politics, Microcosmographia Academica, together with a full account of the controversies which gave rise to it. Cambridge during this period was being subjected to pressure for reform from within and outside the University, forcing it to radical social and academic change, above all by extending and altering the curriculum and by admitting women. All these matters, many of which remain in debate at the...
This entertaining account of Cambridge around the turn of the twentieth century contains the centenary edition of the complete text of F. M. Cornford'...
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121,08 |
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The Political Use of Racial Narratives: School Desegregation in Mobile, Alabama, 1954-97
ISBN: 9780252075940 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arguing that politics is essentially a contest for meaning and that telling a story is an elemental political act, Richard A. Pride lays bare the history of school desegregation in Mobile, Alabama, to demonstrate the power of narrative in cultural and political change. This book describes the public, personal, and meta-narratives of racial inequality that have competed for dominance in Mobile. Pride begins with a white liberal's quest to desegregate the city's public schools in 1955 and traces which narratives--those of biological inferiority, white oppression, the behavior and values of...
Arguing that politics is essentially a contest for meaning and that telling a story is an elemental political act, Richard A. Pride lays bare the hist...
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106,61 |
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Examining the World: A History of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate
ISBN: 9780521709422 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examinations are deeply embedded in our culture and govern the career prospects of millions of people around the world. The University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, now Cambridge Assessment, was at the forefront of introducing public examinations for schools with the aim of raising standards in education. Examining the World explains how the organisation, established in 1858, has evolved into a world authority on assessment with three areas of operation: international examinations, home examinations, and English examinations for Speakers of Other Languages. This is the first...
Examinations are deeply embedded in our culture and govern the career prospects of millions of people around the world. The University of Cambridge Lo...
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153,27 |
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Examining the World: A History of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate
ISBN: 9780521884143 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examinations are deeply embedded in our culture and govern the career prospects of millions of people around the world. The University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, now Cambridge Assessment, was at the forefront of introducing public examinations for schools with the aim of raising standards in education. Examining the World explains how the organisation, established in 1858, has evolved into a world authority on assessment with three areas of operation: international examinations, home examinations, and English examinations for Speakers of Other Languages. This is the first...
Examinations are deeply embedded in our culture and govern the career prospects of millions of people around the world. The University of Cambridge Lo...
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272,67 |
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Both Sides Now: The Story of School Desegregation's Graduates
ISBN: 9780520256781 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the untold story of a generation that experienced one of the most extraordinary chapters in our nation's historyschool desegregation. Many have attempted to define desegregation, which peaked in the late 1970s, as either a success or a failure; surprisingly few have examined the experiences of the students who lived though it. Featuring the voices of blacks, whites, and Latinos who graduated in 1980 from racially diverse schools, Both Sides Now offers a powerful firsthand account of how desegregation affected studentsduring high school and later in life. Their stories, set in a...
This is the untold story of a generation that experienced one of the most extraordinary chapters in our nation's historyschool desegregation. Many hav...
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192,29 |
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Asia's Educational Edge: Current Achievements in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, and India
ISBN: 9780739128084 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Asia's Educational Edge warns that the United States relies heavily on the talent of foreign-born scientists and engineers_skilled workers who face increasing, and increasingly favorable, options for employment elsewhere. East Asia's and India's emerging economies are expanding their own higher education capacity in the sciences and their own research and development infrastructure. Accordingly, the United States faces great and growing competition in attracting talented students and professionals from the international community.
Asia's Educational Edge warns that the United States relies heavily on the talent of foreign-born scientists and engineers_skilled workers who face in...
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213,31 |
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Japan and Germany under the U.S. Occupation: A Comparative Analysis of Post-War Education Reform
ISBN: 9780739128107 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on the post war reconstruction of the education systems in Japan and Germany under U.S. military occupation after World War II, this book offers a comparative historical investigation of education reform policies in these two war ravaged and ideologically compromised countries. While in Japan large-scale reforms were undertaken swiftly after the end of the war, the U.S. zone in Germany maintained most of the traditional aspects of the German education system. Why did Japan so readily accept ideas and values developed in the allied countries while Germany resisted? Masako Shibata...
Focusing on the post war reconstruction of the education systems in Japan and Germany under U.S. military occupation after World War II, this book off...
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218,16 |