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Showing 1 - 9 of 9 results for “jane bernard powers”
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  • Bending the Future to Their Will

    Civic Women, Social Education, and Democracy

    by Chara Haeussler Bohan, O L. Davis Jr, Sherry Field, Andra Makler, Frances E. Monteverde, Andrew Dean Mullen, Petra Munro Henry, Murry R. Nelson, Jane Bernard-Powers, Elizabeth Anne Yeager ...
    This lively and thought-provoking collective biography uncovers the contributions of past women educators who promoted a distinctive vision of citizenship education. A distinguished group of scholars, including editors Margaret Smith Crocco and O. L. Davis, Jr., consider the lives and perspectives of eleven women educators and social activists_Jane Addams, Mary Sheldon Barnes, Mary Ritter Beard, ... Read more

    $42.19 USD

  • The 'Girl Question' in Education (RLE Edu F)

    Vocational Education for Young Women in the Progressive Era

    by Jane Bernard-Powers ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This book is a history of the genesis and development of vocational education for young women in the United States. Home economics, trade training and commercial education – the three key areas of vocational training available to young women during the progressive era – are the focus of this work. Beginning with a study of the "woman question", or what women were supposed to be, the book traces ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • The Global Achievement Gap

    Why Our Kids Don't Have the Skills They Need for College, Careers, and Citizenship -- and What We Can Do About It

    by Tony Wagner ...
    Despite the best efforts of educators, our nation's schools are dangerously obsolete. Instead of teaching students to be critical thinkers and problem-solvers, we are asking them to memorize facts for multiple choice tests. This problem isn't limited to low-income school districts: even our top schools aren't teaching or testing the skills that matter most in the global knowledge economy. Our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Gender, Schooling and Global Social Justice

    by Elaine Unterhalter ...
    Series series Foundations and Futures of Education
    Timely and original, this book examines gender equality in schooling as an aspiration of global social justice. With nearly one billion people having little or no schooling and women and girls comprising nearly two-thirds of this total, this book analyses the historical, sociological, political and philosophical issues involved as well as exploring actions taken by governments, Inter-Government ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Schooling and Society

    Myths of Mass Education

    by Gordon Tait ...
    This new book is a wide-ranging, contemporary and accessible analysis of familiar and recurring myths about mass education in the United Kingdom. Looking at a variety of important issues and problems, each chapter begins by dispelling myths and assumptions about the classroom, going beyond class, race and gender, to offer analysis of topics such as discipline, youth cultures, information ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education

    Edited by Katherine O'Flaherty, Robert Grover ...
    Series series Honors Education in Transition
    Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education is the first volume in an edited series examining the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened without systematic attempts to align what honors means across institutions, and absent a universally ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Education and Employment in the European Union

    The Social Cost of Business

    by Dimitris N. Chorafas ...
    Education, employment policy, and pensions are inextricably linked and critical to any sort of business or economic revival, let alone success, and all three are addressed in Education and Employment in the European Union. In the first part of this meticulously researched and highly informative book, Dimitris Chorafas argues that European educational standards, from primary schools through to ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Strategien der Lehrerbildung / Strategies for Teacher Training

    Zur Steigerung von Lehrkompetenzen und Unterrichtsqualitaet / Concepts for Improving Skills and Quality of Teaching

    Edited by Gerd-Bodo von Carlsburg ...
    Series Book 31 - New Approaches in Educational and Social Sciences / Neue Denkansaetze in den Bildungs- und Sozialwissenschaften
    Der Band dokumentiert eine Reihe von Beiträgen der XX. Internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konferenz Bildungsreform und Lehrerausbildung, die vom Ministerium für Bildung und Wissenschaft der Republik Litauen, der Litauischen Universität für Bildungswissenschaften in Vilnius (LEU) und der Pädagogischen Hochschule Heidelberg – University of Education gemeinsam veranstaltet wurde. Das Hauptthema der ... Read more

    $127.79 USD

  • Mentoring Teachers in Post-Compulsory Education

    A guide to effective practice

    by Bryan Cunningham ...
    The post-compulsory sector is complex and multifaceted, with highly diverse and sometimes challenging learner groups and subject to change from almost unending shifts in educational policy. Effective mentoring has a crucial role in the initial training of new teachers in the post-compulsory sector offering them the guidance and practical support they need to respond to these challenges.This second ... Read more

    $47.99 USD