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  • Education as Freedom

    African American Educational Thought and Activism

    by Judith King-Calnek, Daniel Perlstein, Sabrina Ross, A.A Akom, Ojeya Cruz Banks, Eric A. Hurley, Karen A. Johnson ...
    Before the founding of the United States, enslaved Africans advocated literacy as a method of emancipation. During the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, blacks were at the forefront of the debates on the establishment of public schools in the South. In fact, a wealth of ideas about the role of education in American freedom and progress emerged from African American civic, political, and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • The March of Folly

    From Troy to Vietnam

    by Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government.Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples, from Montezuma’s senseless surrender of his empire in 1520 to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Barbara W. Tuchman ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Collected Writings on Education

    My Pedagogic Creed + The School and Society + The Child and the Curriculum + Moral Principles in Education + Interest and Effort in Education + Democracy and Education

    by John Dewey ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: "Collected Writings on Education: My Pedagogic Creed + The School and Society + The Child and the Curriculum + Moral Principles in Education + Interest and Effort in Education + Democracy and Education" contains 6 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Dewey's educational theories were presented in My ... Read more

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  • Parkin

    Canada's Most Famous Forgotten Man

    by William Christian ...
    George Parkin was born the thirteenth child of an immigrant New Brunswick farmer and died a knight of the realm and perhaps the most famous Canadian in the world.Charismatic, charming, eloquent and dedicated, Parkin devoted his immense energy to two causes. As an orator and journalist, he worked to strengthen the bonds between the English-speaking peoples; as Principal of Upper Canada College and ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Revision Notes: Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: Medicine in Britain, c1250-present and The British sector of the Western Front, 1914-18

    by Sam Slater ...
    Series series My Revision Notes
    Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Endorsed for EdexcelTarget success in Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision.Key content coverage is combined with exam-style questions, revision tasks and practical tips to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Teaching History with Big Ideas

    Cases of Ambitious Teachers

    by Andrew Beiter, Mary Beth Bruce, Julie Doyle, Sarah Foels, S G. Grant, Joseph Karb, Megan Sampson, Trish Davis, Michael Meyer ...
    In the case studies that make up the bulk of this book, middle and high school history teachers describe the decisions and plans and the problems and possibilities they encountered as they ratcheted up their instruction through the use of big ideas. Framing a teaching unit around a question such as 'Why don't we know anything about Africa?' offers both teacher and students opportunities to explore ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Fundamentalist U

    Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education

    by Adam Laats ...
    Colleges, universities, and seminaries do more than just transfer knowledge to students. They sell themselves as "experiences" that transform young people in unique ways. The conservative evangelical Protestant network of higher education has been no different. In the twentieth century, when higher education sometimes seemed to focus on sports, science, and social excess, conservative evangelical ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Schooling in the Age of Austerity

    Urban Education and the Struggle for Democratic Life

    by A. Means ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security in low-income and racially segregated public schools, there exist positive social relations, knowledge, and desire for change that can be built upon to promote more secure and equitable democratic futures for young people. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Essays in the History of Irish Education

    Edited by Brendan Walsh ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides a complete overview of the development of education in Ireland including the complex issue of how religion can coexist with education and how a national identity can be aided through Irish language teaching. It also offers a comprehensive exploration of the development, issues, challenges and future of education in Ireland within the context of historical studies. ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • The Education Act, 1918

    by Lawrence Andrews ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education 1800-1926
    This study, first published in 1976, evaluates the important contribution of the Education Act, 1918, to the development of education in England and Wales during the twentieth century. The Act aimed to establish ‘a national system of public education available for all persons capable of profiting thereby’, and in so doing, laid the framework for the subsequent reforms in the field of education. ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Learn to Teach

    Teach to Learn

    by Catherine Scott ...
    Learn to Teach explores the most up-to-date findings on how children learn, to help teachers create effective learning environments and plan for teaching. Drawing on a neo-Vygotskian approach to learning, it covers the purpose of education; socio-cultural approaches to human cognition; attention and intelligence as cognitive tools; and the role of mindsets, memory and language in learning. It ... Read more

    $93.49 USD

  • Romantic Education in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    National and Transatlantic Contexts

    Edited by Lesley Ginsberg, Monika Elbert ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Romanticism
    American publishing in the long nineteenth century was flooded with readers, primers, teaching-training manuals, children’s literature, and popular periodicals aimed at families. These publications attest to an abiding faith in the power of pedagogy that has its roots in transatlantic Romantic conceptions of pedagogy and literacy.The essays in this collection examine the on-going influence of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD