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Seeing and Knowing
Brepols Publishers 2004; US$ 84.00The studies within this volume apply insights gained from gender studies to re-consider the way knowledge and learning was transmitted in medieval Europe 1200?1550. more...
Overschooled but Undereducated
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 27.95By misunderstanding teenagers’ instinctive need to do things for themselves, isn’t society in danger of creating a system of schooling that so goes against the natural grain of the adolescent brain, that formal education ends up trivializing the very young people it claims to be supporting? By failing to keep up with appropriate research... more...
Redefining Education in the Twenty-first Century
Charles C Thomas 2005; US$ 36.95Redefining Education in the Twenty-First Century explores issues, trends, and practical ideas for teaching and learning in a new era. The book provides specific classroom activities and connects them to recent pedagogical developments that reach across the curriculum. It builds on our expanding knowledge of what works in classrooms and suggests how... more...
The Legacy of a Freedom School
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 32.00The story of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's Mississippi Freedom Schools. more...
Achieving Success for Kids
R&L Education 2011; US$ 20.99Achieving Success for Kids is a clarion call to action that explains why we need to save America's children and return our nation and our schools to the core values, beliefs, and principles upon which our nation was founded. In this book, Tim L. Adsit presents a bold, visionary blueprint for change and success in achieving and exceeding international... more...
The Contest for Knowledge
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 22.50At a time when women were generally excluded from scholarly discourse in the intellectual centers of Europe, four extraordinary female letterate proved their parity as they lectured in prominent scientific and literary academies and published in respected journals. During the Italian Enlightenment, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola,... more...
A Mirror to Kathleen's Face (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 42.95First published in 1975, Donald Akenson?s book was at the forefront of a radically new approach to the study of Irish educational history. Instead of investigating the evolution of the schools as an isolated process, he explores the complex interrelations of Irish education, institutions and society, treating the schools as cultural litmus paper.... more...
Education and Enmity (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95First published in 1973 Professor Akenson?s book traces the series of religious and political controversies which have battered the state schools of Northern Ireland. After the government?s admirably intentioned, but muddled, attempt to create a non-sectarian school system in the early 1920s, the educational system was progressively manipulated by... more...
The Irish Education Experiment
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 160.00This volume focuses on the creation, structure and evolution of the Irish national system of education. It illustrates how the system was shaped by the religious, social and political realities of nineteenth century Ireland and discusses the effects that the system had upon the Irish nation: namely that it was the chief means by which the country... more...
A Century of Education
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 56.95Edited by an eminent historian, this review of Twentieth Century education looks at the successes and failures of the past century and at education in the Twenty First Century and what the future holds. more...









