Education
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An Illusion of Equity: The Legacy of Eugenics in Today's Education [Hardback]
Wendy Z. Warren (Author); Eric R. Jackson (Author)
£36.00ISBN: 9780813197661
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
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Public education plays a crucial role in crafting a nation's future. In the United States, education reform policy, particularly the reliance on large-scale, standardized testing, is a growing topic of national conversation and concern. An Illusio... .... Learn More -
Teaching Black: Pedagogy, Practice, and Perspectives on Writing [Hardback]
Ana Lara (Editor); drea brown (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9780822946953
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture
Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching Black Life and Literature presents the experiences and voices of Black creative writers who are also teachers. The authors presented here write and teach across a variety of genres and at numerous intersection... .... Learn More -
Women and Peace: A new training model for a culture of inclusion [Paperback]
Angelo Romeo (Editor); Maria Caterina Federici (Editor)
£12.00ISBN: 9788869773013
Published by : Mimesis International
This book reports not only a didactic experience but also research, offering a training model on peace mediation. The female protagonists of this research experience the role of trainers of other compatriots through a new didactic model. Comp... .... Learn More
Atmospheres of Learning: How They Affect the Development of Our Children [Paperback]
Barbara Wolf (Author)
£14.00ISBN: 9788869771729
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Atmospheric Spaces
Socialization in childhood and at a young age is marked, not only by measurable factors such as age, sex, ethnic group, religion or parents’ income, but also by variables such as depression, aggressiveness, inner calm or serenity. It makes all the... .... Learn More
Didactic Classroom Studies: A Potential Research Direction [Hardback]
Christina Osbeck (Editor)
£32.95Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9789188661456
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
In Didactic Classroom Studies a group of researchers from the University of Gothenburg who are working in the Scandinavian didactics' tradition show how pupil perspectives, teacher priorities, content and context interrelate, and have dif... .... Learn More
A Critique of Universities [Paperback]
Pall Skulason (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9789935230737
Published by : University of Iceland Press
Páll Skúlason was Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Iceland for several years and the Rector of that university from 1997-2005. He was also recruited to take an active part in shaping the University of Luxembourg, which was fouded i... .... Learn More
Wesleyan University, 1910–1970 [Hardback]
David B. Potts (Author)
£33.50ISBN: 9780819575197
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
In Wesleyan University, 1910 - 1970, David B. Potts presents an engaging story that includes a measured departure from denominational identity, an enterprising acquisition of fabulous wealth, and a burst of enthusiastic aspirations that initiated ... .... Learn More
Education for Tragedy: Essays in Disenchanted Hope for Modern Man [Paperback]
Kenneth D. Benne (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780813151229
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
A distinguished educator and social critic here considers the demands put upon democratic and progressive policies in education, which remains, he believes, man's strongest hope for creating new bases for human values in an age of change and cultu... .... Learn More
Moral and Spiritual Values in Education: A Challenge to Every American [Paperback]
William Clayton Bower (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780813151373
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
This book deals with the multiple problem of education in the public schools as it relates to moral and spiritual values. The author cuts a wide swath through the tangled underbrush of church and state, religion and education, sacred and secular, ... .... Learn More
The Humanities and the Understanding of Reality [Paperback]
Thomas B. Stroup (Editor)
£14.00ISBN: 9780813154558
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
In their concern with the perennial controversy between the two great areas in which men seek knowledge, three eminent literary scholars and a distinguished journalist in these essays address themselves to the question, "Do the humanities provide ... .... Learn More
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