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The Future of Academic Freedom
ISBN: 9780226520049 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. At the bottom of every controversy embroiling the university today from debates over hate-speech codes to the reorganization of the academy as a multicultural institution is the concept of academic freedom. But academic freedom is almost never mentioned in these debates. Now nine leading academics, including Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Edward Said, Richard Rorty, and Joan W. Scott, consider the problems confronting the American University in terms of their effect on the future of academic freedom.
"Louis Menand has assembled "The Future of Academic Freedom" to better define and delineate what... At the bottom of every controversy embroiling the university today from debates over hate-speech codes to the reorganization of the academy as a multi...
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129,28 |
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The Future of Academic Freedom
ISBN: 9780226520056 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. At the bottom of every controversy embroiling the university today from debates over hate-speech codes to the reorganization of the academy as a multicultural institution is the concept of academic freedom. But academic freedom is almost never mentioned in these debates. Now nine leading academics, including Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Edward Said, Richard Rorty, and Joan W. Scott, consider the problems confronting the American University in terms of their effect on the future of academic freedom.
"Louis Menand has assembled "The Future of Academic Freedom" to better define and delineate what... At the bottom of every controversy embroiling the university today from debates over hate-speech codes to the reorganization of the academy as a multi...
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129,28 |
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The Elephants Teach: Creative Writing Since 1880
ISBN: 9780226554549 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When Vladimir Nabokov was up for a chair in literature at Harvard, the linguist Roman Jakobson protested: What s next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology? That anecdote, with which D. G. Myers begins "The Elephants Teach," perfectly frames the issues this book tackles.
Myers explores more than a century of debate over how writing should be taught and whether it can or should be taught in a classroom at all. Along the way, he incorporates insights from a host of poets and teachers, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, John Berryman, John Dewey,... When Vladimir Nabokov was up for a chair in literature at Harvard, the linguist Roman Jakobson protested: What s next? Shall we appoint elephants to t...
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150,82 |
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Hutchins' University: A Memoir of the University of Chicago, 1929-1950
ISBN: 9780226561714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The inauguration of Robert Maynard Hutchins as the fifth President of the University of Chicago in 1929 coincided with a drastically changed social and economic climate throughout the world. And Hutchins himself opened an era of tumultuous reform and debate within the University. In the midst of the changes Hutchins started and the intense feelings they stirred, William H. McNeill arrived at the University to pursue his education. In Hutchins' University he tells what it was like to come of age as a undergraduate in those heady times. Hutchins' scathing opposition to the...
The inauguration of Robert Maynard Hutchins as the fifth President of the University of Chicago in 1929 coincided with a drastically changed social an...
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140,05 |
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The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston's Public Schools, 1950-1985
ISBN: 9780226571898 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In recent years, federal mandates in education have become the subject of increasing debate. Adam R. Nelson's "The Elusive Ideal" a postwar history of federal involvement in the Boston public schools provides lessons from the past that shed light on the continuing struggles of urban public schools today. This far-reaching analysis examines the persistent failure of educational policy at local, state, and federal levels to equalize educational opportunity for all. Exploring deep-seated tensions between the educational ideals of integration, inclusion, and academic achievement over time, Nelson...
In recent years, federal mandates in education have become the subject of increasing debate. Adam R. Nelson's "The Elusive Ideal" a postwar history of...
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538,65 |
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The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston's Public Schools, 1950-1985
ISBN: 9780226571904 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In recent years, federal mandates in education have become the subject of increasing debate. Adam R. Nelson's "The Elusive Ideal" a postwar history of federal involvement in the Boston public schools provides lessons from the past that shed light on the continuing struggles of urban public schools today. This far-reaching analysis examines the persistent failure of educational policy at local, state, and federal levels to equalize educational opportunity for all. Exploring deep-seated tensions between the educational ideals of integration, inclusion, and academic achievement over time, Nelson...
In recent years, federal mandates in education have become the subject of increasing debate. Adam R. Nelson's "The Elusive Ideal" a postwar history of...
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193,91 |
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Bad Guys Don't Have Birthdays: Fantasy Play at Four
ISBN: 9780226644967 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Bad guys are not allowed to have birthdays, pick blueberries, or disturb the baby. So say the four-year-olds who announce life's risks and dangers as they play out the school year in Vivian Paley's classroom.
Their play is filled with warnings. They invent chaos in order to show that everything is under control. They portray fear to prove that it can be conquered. No theme is too large or too small for their intense scrutiny. Fantasy play is their ever dependable pathway to knowledge and certainty. " It . . . takes a special teacher to value the young child's communications... Bad guys are not allowed to have birthdays, pick blueberries, or disturb the baby. So say the four-year-olds who announce life's risks and dangers as ...
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65,18 |
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The Color of Strangers, the Color of Friends
ISBN: 9780226662015 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Peshkin examines the role played by ethnicity in the daily life of a town he calls "Riverview" and its only high school. Immersing himself in the daily life of halls and classrooms of Riverview's high school and the streets of its neighborhoods, Peshkin coaxes from both young and old their own reflections on the town's early days, on the period of ethnic strife sparked by the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and on the way they see Riverview today.
"Peshkin strikes a hopeful chord, revealing what social encounters among ethnic groups at their best can be like in America."... Peshkin examines the role played by ethnicity in the daily life of a town he calls "Riverview" and its only high school. Immersing himself in the dail...
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150,82 |
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The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality
ISBN: 9780226710204 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What is the purpose of higher education, and how should we pursue it? Debates over these issues raged in the late nineteenth century as reformers introduced a new kind of university one dedicated to free inquiry and the advancement of knowledge. In the first major study of moral education in American universities, Julie Reuben examines the consequences of these debates for modern intellectual life.
Based on extensive research at eight universities Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Stanford, Michigan, and California at Berkeley Reuben examines the aims of university... What is the purpose of higher education, and how should we pursue it? Debates over these issues raged in the late nineteenth century as reformers intr...
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204,69 |
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Science, Curriculum, and Liberal Education: Selected Essays
ISBN: 9780226741871 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What is a liberal education and what part can science play in it? How should we think about the task of developing a curriculum? How should educational research conceive of its goals? Joseph Schwab's essays on these questions have influenced education internationally for more than twenty-five years.
Schwab participated in what Daniel Bell has described as the "most thoroughgoing experiment in general education in any college in the United States," the College of the University of Chicago during the thirties, forties, and fifties. He played a central role in the curriculum reform movement... What is a liberal education and what part can science play in it? How should we think about the task of developing a curriculum? How should educationa...
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215,46 |
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The Calling of Education: The Academic Ethic and Other Essays on Higher Education
ISBN: 9780226753393 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Throughout his long and prolific career, Edward Shils brought an extraordinary knowledge of academic institutions to discussions about higher education. "The Calling of Education" features Shils's most illuminating and incisive writing on this topic from the last twenty-five years of his life. The first essay, "The Academic Ethic," articulates the unique ethical demands of the academic profession and directs special attention to the integration of teaching and research. Other pieces, including Shils's renowned Jefferson lectures, focus on perennial issues in higher learning: the meaning of...
Throughout his long and prolific career, Edward Shils brought an extraordinary knowledge of academic institutions to discussions about higher educatio...
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150,82 |
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When Students Have Power: Negotiating Authority in a Critical Pedagogy
ISBN: 9780226753553 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What happens when teachers share power with students? In this profound book, Ira Shor the inventor of critical pedagogy in the United States relates the story of an experiment that nearly went out of control.
Shor provides the reader with a reenactment of one semester that shows what really can happen when one applies the theory and democratizes the classroom. This is the story of one class in which Shor tried to fully share with his students control of the curriculum and of the classroom. After twenty years of practicing critical teaching, he unexpectedly found himself faced with a... What happens when teachers share power with students? In this profound book, Ira Shor the inventor of critical pedagogy in the United States relates t...
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129,28 |
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Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change
ISBN: 9780226753577 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ira Shor is a pioneer in the field of critical education who for over twenty years has been experimenting with learning methods. His work creatively adapts the ideas of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire for North American classrooms. In "Empowering Education" Shor offers a comprehensive theory and practice for critical pedagogy.
For Shor, empowering education is a student-centered, critical and democratic pedagogy for studying any subject matter and for self and social change. It takes shape as a dialogue in which teachers and students mutually investigate everyday themes, social issues,... Ira Shor is a pioneer in the field of critical education who for over twenty years has been experimenting with learning methods. His work creatively a...
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161,60 |
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Critical Teaching and Everyday Life
ISBN: 9780226753584 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this unique book on education, Shor develops teaching theory side-by-side with a political analysis of schooling. Drawing on the work of Paulo Freire, he offers the first practical and theoretical guide to Freirean methods for American classrooms. Central to his method is a commitment to learning through dialogue and to exploring themes from everyday life. He poses alienation and mass culture as key obstacles to learning, and establishes critical literacy as a foundation for studying any subject.
In this unique book on education, Shor develops teaching theory side-by-side with a political analysis of schooling. Drawing on the work of Paulo Frei...
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129,28 |
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Mission on the Rhine: Reeducation and Denazification in American-Occupied Germany
ISBN: 9780226793580 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. German society underwent greater change under the four years of military occupation than it had under Hitler and the Nazis. The issue of reeducation lay at the heart of America's occupation policies. Encompassing denazification, restructuring of the school system, university reform, and cultural exchange, reeducation began as an idealistic (and naive) attempt to democratize Germany by making her over in the American image.
For this meticulously researched study, James F. Tent has drawn on a wealth of recently declassified documents and on numerous personal interviews with veterans of the... German society underwent greater change under the four years of military occupation than it had under Hitler and the Nazis. The issue of reeducation l...
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193,91 |
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The Emergence of the American University
ISBN: 9780226854564 / Angielski / Miękka / 1970 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The American university of today is the product of a sudden, mainly unplanned period of development at the close of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. At that time the university, and with it a recognizably modern style of academic life, emerged to eclipse the older, religiously oriented college. Precedents, formal and informal, were then set which have affected the soul of professor, student, and academic administrator ever since. What did the men living in this formative period want the American university to become? How did they differ in defining the ideal...
The American university of today is the product of a sudden, mainly unplanned period of development at the close of the nineteenth and the beginning o...
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307,03 |
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The Birth of Head Start: Preschool Education Policies in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations
ISBN: 9780226856711 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. One of the most popular and enduring legacies of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society programs, Project Head Start continues to support young children of low-income families-close to one million annually-by providing a range of developmental and educational services. Yet as Head Start reaches its fortieth anniversary, debates over the function and scope of this federal program persist. Although the program's importance is unquestioned across party lines, the direction of its future whether toward a greater focus on school readiness and literacy or the continuation of a holistic...
One of the most popular and enduring legacies of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society programs, Project Head Start continues to support young c...
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430,92 |
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Changing Schools: Progressive Education Theory and Practice, 1930-1960
ISBN: 9780226983301 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Nearly one hundred years ago America's foremost philosopher of education, John Dewey, set in motion the progressive education movement an effort to enhance both child and community by establishing schools that would focus on the needs and interests of children, thereby turning out more productive citizens. To what degree did these ideas actually change the day-to-day lives of school children? What can the progressive education movement teach us about the conditions that facilitate and impede the implementation of new ideas about schools?
Through a focus on actual classroom practices in... Nearly one hundred years ago America's foremost philosopher of education, John Dewey, set in motion the progressive education movement an effort to en...
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161,60 |
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Education Under Mao: Class and Competition in Canton Schools, 1960-1980
ISBN: 9780231052993 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Education Under Mao, an in-depth analysis of modern Chinese education, Jonathan Unger not only probes the policy issues and the nature of the debate between Maoists and modernizers but also shows, more concretely, how schools were organized, the changing attitudes and goals of students, and the tensions that permeated the schools. Unger focuses on Canton's schools through two tumultuous decades, and his rich factual presentation brings to life both the Chinese school system and its social milieu.
In Education Under Mao, an in-depth analysis of modern Chinese education, Jonathan Unger not only probes the policy issues and the nature of the debat...
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291,48 |
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Lawrence Kohlberg's Approach to Moral Education
ISBN: 9780231059770 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Lawrence Kohlberg's Approach to Moral Education presents what the late Lawrence Kohlberg regarded as the definitive statement of his educational theory. Addressing the sociology and social psychology of schooling, the authors propose that school culture become the center of moraleducation and research. They discuss how schools can develop as just and cohesive communities by involving students in democracy, and they focus on the moral decisions teachers and students face as they democratically resolve problems. As the authors put it: "We propose an educational renewal of our democratic...
Lawrence Kohlberg's Approach to Moral Education presents what the late Lawrence Kohlberg regarded as the definitive statement of his educationa...
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234,44 |