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Breaking the Cycle of Educational Alienation
McGraw-Hill Education 2006; US$ 186.00Shows how the cycle of educational alienation can be broken, to enable parents and schools to work together to contribute to children's educational, social and emotional well-being. This book is a useful reading for teachers and trainee teachers, child psychologists, educational psychologists and social workers. more...
The Children of London
Institute of Education Press 2012; US$ 33.00This book charts for the first time the development of the school attendance service and the Care Committees, a system of volunteers providing poor children with school dinners, clothing and medical care. more...
College Attrition at American Research Universities
Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 29.95Why do some colleges exhibit higher student attrition than expected? This is the first work to present case studies based on specific institutions; it also adds an important voice from the students themselves on the practical concerns that affect attritio more...
College Student Retention
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2012; US$ 43.99Retention lingers as a major problem in higher education despite greater accessibility. The second edition of Seidman?s groundbreaking book includes three new chapters to fill information gaps on critical topics: assessment in community colleges, retention theory, and online programs. This book will be of interest to practitioners and classroom... more...
College Students in the United States
Wiley 2012; US$ 45.00College Students in the United States accounts for contemporary and anticipated student demographics and enrollment patterns, a wide variety of campus environments and a range of outcomes including learning, development, and achievement. Throughout the book, the differing experiences, needs, and outcome of students across the range of “traditional”... more...
Completing College
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 30.00Even as the number of students attending college has more than doubled in the past forty years, it is still the case that nearly half of all college students in the United States will not complete their degree within six years. It is clear that much remains to be done toward improving student success. For more than twenty years, Vincent Tinto’s... more...
Composing Lives in Transition
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013; US$ 49.99Composing Lives in Transition: A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Early School Leavers is structured around ten narrative accounts, each one offering glimpses into the lives of early school leavers from different backgrounds. Framed by the puzzling question of why someone would want to leave school early, the authors worked alongside youths... more...
Creating a Culture for High-Performing Schools
R&L Education 2011; US$ 25.99This book describes a comprehensive school reform approach that reduces resistance to school reform and increases the likelihood of creating a caring learning community. Creating a "high-performing" school is an organizational approach to school reform that creates a distinctly different school culture and climate than can be found in existing schools.... more...
Culture, Politics, and Irish School Dropouts
ABC-CLIO 1995; US$ 143.00This book summarizes structural, reproduction, and resistance theories of education and provides a social research approach to problems of social inequity. It analyzes how these perspectives contribute to the political analysis of the production of early school departures and the consequent disadvantages and poverty. Fagan follows a deconstructive... more...
Democratische deugden
Amsterdam University Press 2006; US$ 12.75Naar aanleiding van het kwaad dat in de Tweede Wereldoorlog is geschied, gaat het ? naar de woorden van de Italiaanse schrijver Primo Levi ? om het nastreven van deugd en kennis om herhalingen van dit kwaad te voorkomen. Wat zijn de precondities om massaal geweld jegens bepaalde bevolkingsgroepen te voorkomen?. In deze Cleveringa-oratie worden sociaal-wetenschappelijke... more...









