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  • Not Just the Strap

    Discipline by Control in Ontario Schools: 1900-1960

    by Vera Pletsch ...
    Stern discipline, so prevalent in Ontario classrooms during the first half of the twentieth century, remained intact not only because elementary and secondary teachers wanted to keep their jobs, but also as a result of control exerted by higher authorities. During their training, teachers encountered this control, particularly during practice teaching. As educators, their mandate to "keep order" ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • The Deserter

    by Paul Almond ...
    Series Book 1 - The Alford Saga
    Imagine you’re in a swaying hammock on a British man-o’war around 1800, riding out a harsh spring storm in a deserted estuary. Behind those high red cliffs lie a hundred miles of uncharted wilderness, populated only by ferocious indigenous peoples. If you jump ship and are caught, you will be branded a deserter — subject to death by one thousand lashes. What can you bring to help you survive? ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The Story of Western Science

    From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory

    A riveting road map to the development of modern scientific thought.In the tradition of her perennial bestseller The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer delivers an accessible, entertaining, and illuminating springboard into the scientific education you never had. Far too often, public discussion of science is carried out by journalists, voters, and politicians who have received their science ... Read more

    $20.59 USD

  • I Learn from Children

    An Adventure in Progressive Education

    The memoir of an innovative American educator and the remarkable school she built—“a lucid presentation of what progressive education can accomplish” (The New York Times).Over a century ago, American educator Caroline Pratt created an innovative school that fosters creativity and independent thought by asking the provocative question: “Was it unreasonable to try to fit the school to the child, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Becoming a History Teacher

    Sustaining Practices in Historical Thinking and Knowing

    A revolution in history education is propelling historical thinking and knowing to the forefront of history and social studies education in North America and beyond. Teachers, teacher education programs, schools, and ministries of education across Canada are all among those embracing the idea that knowing history means knowing how to think historically.Becoming a History Teacher is a collection of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Are You With Us or Against Us? Looking Back at the Reign of Terror - History 6th Grade | Children's European History

    Open your eyes to the truth behind the Reign of Terror. Of course, there won’t be pretty sights during these trying times but focus instead on the bravery of those who fought for what they believed in. Looking into past battles will help children better appreciate the freedom experienced today. What realization will your sixth grader have after reading this book? ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Limited Engagement

    Kirkland College 1965-1978: an Intimate History of the Rise and Fall of a Coordinate College for Women

    After three years of planning, Kirkland College opened in 1968 as a small, liberal arts college for women, coordinate to Hamilton College in upstate New York. The author was the first, last and only President. Planners envisioned a female counterpart of Hamilton which could introduce women without distressing alumni, and allow needed curricular expansion. But Kirklands advisors and administrators ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Transforming Campus Culture

    Frank Aydelotte's Honors Experiment at Swarthmore College

    At a time in American history when football ruled the American campus and fraternities dominated student life, Frank Aydelotte, through his determination to specialize exclusively in initiating an Honors program of study, accomplished a feat virtually unknown in American higher education. That is, he succeeded in shaping one regional, run of the mill, Quaker school - Swarthmore College - into an ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Linguistic Foundations

    Series series Logos Studies in Language and Linguistics
    This volume forms part of a five volume set charting the progress of the nineteenth century movement which was instrumental in establishing international guidelines for the teaching of modern languages. It was during this period that for the first time, co-operation between phoneticians and teachers culminated in the publication of works that were instrumental in establishing the 'applied ... Read more

    $585.00 USD

  • Connecting the Dots in World History, A Teacher's Literacy Based Curriculum

    From the Reformation to the Beginning of the Collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Volume 4

    by Chris Edwards ...
    Series series Connect the Dots History of the World
    In his previously written articles and books, Chris Edwards has argued that Teaching should be considered a field that is separate from both the field of Education and from the content area fields. Teaching is a field which synthesizes content and method for classroom application. All of the other major intellectual fields have a canon of works which practitioners can learn from and add to, but ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Dominant Beliefs and Alternative Voices

    Discourse, Belief, and Gender in American Study

    Series series RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education
    This book examines why study abroad is a marginal activity in American higher education and evaluates the role gender has played in the development and maintenance of this marginality. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD