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Scholarly Self-Fashioning and Community in the Early Modern University
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 124.95A greater fluidity in social relations and hierarchies was experienced across Europe in the early modern period, a consequence of the major political and religious upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. During this time university scholars demonstrated a great energy when characterizing themselves socially as learned men. This book investigates... more...
Education and Policy in England in the Twentieth Century
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 180.00In the 1990s education has become one of the major social and political questions of the day. This book has been written to provide an authoritative guide to the issues which underlie the formulation of educational policy. It stands both as a substantial historical study in its own right and as an essential background and introduction to the current... more...
Socialism and Education in Britain 1883-1902
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 180.00Examines the British socialist movement in the last two decades of the 19th century through its policies on children's education. The author reassesses the nature of these policies and comments on the validity of those historiographical models used in analyses of the socialism of this period. more...
The New Political Economy of Urban Education
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 38.95Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class, and urban space. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of the relationship between education policy and the neoliberal economic,... more...
Comparative Education (RLE Edu A)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 140.00This book is divided into four parts. In Part One the author considers the natural factors which have influenced the various national systems of education. They comprise racial, linguistic, geographical and economic factors. In Part Two he considers the contribution of religious traditions to education, more particularly those of the Catholic and... more...
Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 30.00Discuss real estate with any young family and the subject of schools is certain to come up—in fact, it will likely be a crucial factor in determining where that family lives. Not merely institutions of learning, schools have increasingly become a sign of a neighborhood’s vitality, and city planners have ever more explicitly promoted “good... more...
College
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 17.95As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience--an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers--is in... 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...
Chicano Education in the Era of Segregation
University of North Texas Press 2013; US$ 15.16Opening the Doors
University of Alabama Press 2013; US$ 34.95Opening the Doors is a wide-ranging account of the University of Alabama’s 1956 and 1963 desegregation attempts, as well as the little-known story of Tuscaloosa, Alabama’s, own civil rights movement. Whereas E. Culpepper Clark’s The Schoolhouse Door remains the standard history of the University of Alabama’s desegregation,... more...









