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  • Education For A New Society (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

    by Ernest Green, Harold Shearman ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    Aimed at the layperson, this book discusses education for the man or woman in the street and the advantages to society of having an educated population, with the aim of not just convincing people of the importance of education but persuading them to take participate actively in education. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China

    by Benjamin A. Elman ...
    During China's late imperial period (roughly 1400-1900 CE), men would gather by the millions every two or three years outside official examination compounds sprinkled across China. Only one percent of candidates would complete the academic regimen that would earn them a post in the administrative bureaucracy. Civil Examinations assesses the role of education, examination, and China's civil service ... Read more

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  • Does God Belong in Public Schools?

    by Kent Greenawalt ...
    Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but neither the Court nor public policy exclude religion from schools altogether. In this book, one of America's leading constitutional scholars asks what role religion ought to play in public schools. Kent Greenawalt explores many of the most divisive issues in educational debate, including teaching about the origins of ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Children and the Changing Family

    Between Transformation and Negotiation

    Edited by An-Magritt Jensen, Lorna McKee ...
    This timely and thought-provoking book explores how social and family change are colouring the experience of childhood. The book is centred around three major changes: parental employment, family composition and ideology. The authors demonstrate how children's families are transformed in accordance with societal changes in demographic and economic terms, and as a result of the choices parents make ... Read more

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  • Making Minds Less Well Educated Than Our Own

    by Roger C. Schank ...
    In the author's words: "This book is an honest attempt to understand what it means to be educated in today's world." His argument is this: No matter how important science and technology seem to industry or government or indeed to the daily life of people, as a society we believe that those educated in literature, history, and other humanities are in some way better informed, more knowing, and ... Read more

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  • Surviving the Move and Learning to Thrive

    Tools for Success in Secondary Schools, Grades 6-12

    by Lisa Anne Fisher ...
    Surviving the Move and Learning to Thrive: Tools for Success in Secondary Schools, Grades 6-12 is collection of seven chapters that provide tools for all students, especially struggling and reluctant learners, to find a better path to learning while moving through middle and high school. Each chapter addresses critical areas of need from learning styles to parent involvement in a way that is easy ... Read more

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  • The Educational Thought and Influence of Matthew Arnold

    by W.F. Connell ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    Drawing on the great wealth of knowledge and experience of education practitioners and theorists, these volumes explore the very important relationship between education and society. These book became standard texts for actual and intending teachers. Drawing upon comparative material from Israel France, and Germany, titles in The Sociology of Education set of the Internation Library of Sociology ... Read more

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  • The Windmills of Your Mind

    Mulling Over School and Life, #2

    by Roy Wilson ...
    Series Book 2 - Mulling Over School and Life
    Are you someone who "thinks things over?" Do you have conversations with yourself, silently in your head? If so, you are a practitioner of reflexivity. There is evidence that most people are reflexive and that there are (at least) four different kinds of reflexivity. This book uses a character from each of four "classic" American films to describe each kind of reflexivity.There is evidence that ... Read more

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  • Moral Responsibility, Authenticity, and Education

    by Ishtiyaque Haji, Stefaan E. Cuypers ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
    The primary purpose of this book is to explain the distinction, on the one hand, between indoctrination and education, and, on the other, between responsibility-subverting manipulation and mere causation. Both are elucidated by an appeal to common ground, an account of when our motivations and other springs of action are "truly our own" or "authentic." The book progresses from analyses of the sort ... Read more

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  • Religion in the Classroom

    Dilemmas for Democratic Education

    by Jennifer Hauver James, Simone Schweber, Robert Kunzman, Keith C. Barton, Kimberly Logan ...
    Dilemmas surrounding the role for religious beliefs and experiences permeate the school lives of teachers and teacher educators. Inspired by the need for teachers and students to more fully understand such dilemmas, this book examines the relationship between religion and teaching/learning in a democratic society. Written for pre-service and in-service teachers, it will engage readers in thinking ... Read more

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  • An Improbable Life

    My Sixty Years at Columbia and Other Adventures

    by Michael Sovern ...
    Columbia University began the second half of the twentieth century in decline, bottoming out with the student riots of 1968. Yet by the close of the century, the institution had regained its stature as one of the greatest universities in the world.According to the New York Times, "If any one person is responsible for Columbia's recovery, it is surely Michael Sovern." In this memoir, Sovern, who ... Read more

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