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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...
Exploring Leadership
Wiley 2013; US$ 15.00This workbook offers students an avenue for deeply applying the content of Exploring Leadership, Third Edition in their efforts to develop their leadership skills. Aligning with the Facilitation and Activity Guide, it includes guided activities, discussion questions, journal prompts, and space for reflective writing. more...
The Comprehensive Public High School
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 30.00This book traces the decline of the public comprehensive high school. New educational markets emphasized school diversity and parental choice rather than social equity through common schooling, and they were criticized for declining standards. The book also considers government education policies and their regional manifestations. more...
Dynamics of the Contemporary University
University of California Press 2013; US$ 39.95This book is an expanded version of the Clark Kerr Lectures of 2012, delivered by Neil Smelser at the University of California at Berkeley in January and February of that year. The initial exposition is of a theory of change?labeled structural accretion ?that has characterized the history of American higher education, mainly (but not exclusively)... more...
Uplifting the Women and the Race
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 128.00This study explores the lives, educational philosophies, and social activism of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs. They were among the most outstanding late 19th and early 20th century Black women educators. The study identifies and analyzes themes that illuminate Cooper and Burroughs' "unique angle of vision of self, community, and society"... more...
Beautiful Child
HarperCollins 2013; Not AvailableIn the tradition of David Pelzer's A Child Called 'It' comes the unsettling story of a mute, almost catatonic seven?year?old and the special education teacher who tries to save her from the silence and abuse of her world. Hayden has chronicled experiences from her long career as a special education teacher in several books, including One Child... more...
Beautiful Child
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 7.99In the tradition of David Pelzer's A Child Called 'It' comes the unsettling story of a mute, almost catatonic seven?year?old and the special education teacher who tries to save her from the silence and abuse of her world. Hayden has chronicled experiences from her long career as a special education teacher in several books, including One Child... more...
A Frenchwoman's Imperial Story
Stanford University Press 2013; US$ 65.00Eugénie Luce was a French schoolteacher who fled her husband and abandoned her family, migrating to Algeria in the early 1830s. By the mid-1840s she had become a major figure in debates around educational policies, insisting that women were a critical dimension of the French effort to effect a fusion of the races. To aid this fusion, she founded... more...
Lessons to Learn
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 31.95This is the inside story of the more than 8,000 recent college graduates who have joined Teach for America and committed two years of service to teaching in the nation's most troubled public schools. In the tradition of books by Studs Terkel, Ness combines interviews and essays from TFA members and alumni as well as principals, superintendents, parents,... more...
Schulsozialarbeit in der Bildungslandschaft
Springer 2013; US$ 29.95Mit der zunehmenden Implementation von Schulsozialarbeit sind Reformprozesse im Bildungswesen verbunden, die auch im Kontext des Konstrukts von der lokalen Bildungslandschaft zum Tragen kommen. Zugleich ziehen die sich verändernden Bildungsbedingungen strukturelle Konsequenzen nach sich, die wiederum die fachliche Positionierung des... more...









