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  • Scholarly Self-Fashioning and Community in the Early Modern Universityby Richard Kirwan

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 124.95

    A 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 Centuryby Richard Aldrich; Dennis Dean; Peter Gordon

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 180.00

    In 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 1883-1902by Kevin Manton

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 180.00

    Examines 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 Educationby Pauline Lipman

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 38.95

    Urban 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)by Nicholas Hans

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 140.00

    This 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 Citiesby Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara

    University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 30.00

    Discuss 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...

  • Collegeby Andrew Delbanco

    Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 17.95

    As 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)by Donald Akenson

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95

    First 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 Segregationby Gilbert G Gonzalez

    University of North Texas Press 2013; US$ 15.16

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  • Opening the Doorsby B. J. Hollars

    University of Alabama Press 2013; US$ 34.95

    Opening 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...