The Leading eBooks Store Online
for your Apple or Android device, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
- 1
- Page
Most popular at the top
Methodist Education in Peruby Rosa del Carmen Bruno-Jofré
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 85.00With research based on extensive primary sources, the author examines the activities of the Methodist mission in Peru, in particular its educational work, within the Peruvian socioeconomic formation and its ideological and intellectual changes. Yet her study goes beyond Methodist boundaries: Social Gospel doctrine and educational theory, which link American Progressivism (especially John Dewey’s pedagogical ideas) with Christianity, are also treated at an interdenominational level. The book contends that Methodist schools constituted an educational system of their own within a socioeconomic formation of uneven character, a society where an imperialist presence was interwoven with pre-capitalist as well as local incipient capitalist... more...
The Most American Thing in Americaby Charlotte M. Canning
University of Iowa Press 2005; US$ 19.95Between 1904 and the Great Depression, Circuit Chautauquas toured the rural United States, reflecting and reinforcing its citizens' ideas, attitudes, and politics every summer through music (the Jubilee Singers, an African American group, were not always welcome in a time when millions of Americans belonged to the KKK), lectures ("Civic Revivalist" Charles Zueblin speaking on "Militancy and Morals"), elocutionary readers (Lucille Adams reading from Little Lord Fauntleroy), dramas (the Ben Greet Players' cleaned-up version of She Stoops to Conquer), orations (William Jennings Bryan speaking about the dangers of greed), and special programs for children (parades and mock weddings). Theatre historians have largely ignored Circuit Chautauquas... more...
Religionslehrplan in Deutschland (1870-2000)by Veit-Jakobus Dieterich; Gottfried Adam; Rainer Lachmann
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010; US$ 65.31Hauptbeschreibung Die vorliegende Arbeit bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die Geschichte des evangelischen Religionslehrplans, die teilweise recht kontroverse Auseinandersetzung um diesen Lehrplan und die Ablösung alter Lehrplanparadigmen. Neben der Darstellung der Entwicklung von amtlichen Religionslehrplänen in Deutschland seit der Gründung des Zweiten Deutschen Reiches 1870/71 bis zum Jahr 2000 werden erstmals die jeweiligen religionspädagogischen Konzeptionen auf ihre expliziten oder impliziten Lehrplanvorstellungen hin befragt und die Möglichkeiten einer fundierten Religionslehrplantheorie und -analyse ausgelotet. Zusätzlich bietet das Buch Einblicke in Formen kirchlicher und staatlicher Bildungspolitik und leistet einen zentralen... more...
Teaching and Learning on Foundation Degreesby Claire Taylor
Continuum International Publishing 2012; US$ 140.00What is a Foundation Degree? What are the needs of Foundation Degree students? How should course design and delivery be shaped?This text is a complete guide for academic tutors and support staff involved in teaching on Foundation Degrees throughout England and Wales. The contributors explore the specific and diverse needs of Foundation Degree students,a unique client-group in Further Education (FE) / Higher Education (HE) who have differing academic qualifications and work-based experiences. They will address aspects of course design and delivery including teaching techniques, e-learning and assessment. Drawing together theory and practice, this text will provide clear practical models for how to successfully deliver Foundation Degrees. Exemplars... more...
- 1
- Page



