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Practical Guide to Fund-Raising in Schoolsby Paul Morris
RoutledgeFalmer 2000; US$ 49.95This practical guide explains everything that schools need to know about fund-raising including how to set and meet targets, case studies and contact details of useful organisations. more...
Daughters of the Tharuby Mary Ann Maslak
RoutledgeFalmer 2003; US$ 155.00This book identifies and examines the cultural conditions and circumstances that influence the process of educational decision making for girls in Nepal. more...
Getting the Grantby Rebecca Gajda; Richard Tulikangas
ASCD 2005; US$ 25.95The authors, expert grant writers themselves, explain what educators need to do to successfully secure grant funding and to sustain their grant-funded projects. more...
Gender and Educational Philanthropyby Edited Alice E. Ginsberg; Marybeth Gasman
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 85.00Explores the complex questions facing funding agencies and foundations as they grapple to understand and define gender equity in education. This book presents approaches funders use to define gender equity, target limited resources, and create collaborative relationships that will make schools more equitable and engaging for boys and girls. more...
The Gates Foundation and the Future of US ?Public? Schoolsby Philip E. Kovacs
Taylor & Francis 2010; US$ 140.00What are the implications when the educational policy and priority of public schools are concentrated in ways that foster de-unionization and teacher de-skilling while homogenizing school models and curriculum? This volume addresses this crucial, unanswered question while investigating the impact of the Gates Foundation on education. more...
Nasreen's Secret Schoolby Jeanette Winter; Jeanette Winter
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing 2011; US$ 12.99Young Nasreen has not spoken a word to anyone since her parents disappeared. In despair, her grandmother risks everything to enroll Nasreen in a secret school for girls. Will a devoted teacher, a new friend, and the worlds she discovers in books be enough to draw Nasreen out of her shell of sadness? Based on a true story from Afghanistan, this inspiring book will touch readers deeply as it affirms both the life-changing power of education and the healing power of love. more...
Die Robinsoninby Celia Torke
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011; US$ 40.11Hauptbeschreibung Weibliche Robinsone, also Frauen in der Robinsonade, stellen zunächst eine Irritation dar. Robinson Crusoe kennt man als Mann und, philologisch betrachtet, als Modell der existenziellen Selbstbehauptung des neuzeitlichen Subjekts. Die Robinsonin gilt dagegen als Randerscheinung. Sie ist das >Andere männlichen Den Ausgangspunkt des vorliegenden Bandes bildet die Beobachtung, dass neben den vorbildgetreuen Robinson-Bearbeitungen eine Vielzahl von Texten existiert, die aus dem Geschlechterschema des Defoe'schen Vorbilds ausbrechen und die Frau in die abendländische Kultur- und Menschheitsgenese zu integrieren versuchen. Der Entwicklung der Emanzipation der Frau entsprechend fällt der Fokus hierbei auf Texte des 20. Jahrhunderts.... more...
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