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American Educational History Journal
Volume 42 # 12
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The American Educational History Journal is a peer?reviewed, national research journal devoted to the examination of educational topics using perspectives from a variety of disciplines. The editors of AEHJ encourage communication between scholars from numerous disciplines, nationalities, institutions,...
American Educational History Journal
Volume 39 #1 & 2
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The American Educational History Journal is a peer?reviewed, national research journal devoted to the examination of educational topics using perspectives from a variety of disciplines. The editors of AEHJ encourage communication between scholars from numerous disciplines, nationalities, institutions,...
American Educational History Journal
Volume 35 #1 & 2
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
The American Educational History Journal is a peer?reviewed, national research journal devoted to the examination of educational topics using perspectives from a variety of disciplines. The editors of AEHJ encourage communication between scholars from numerous disciplines, nationalities, institutions,...
Books, Not Bombs
Teaching Peace Since the Dawn of the Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Books Not Bombs: Teaching Peace Since the Dawn of the Republic is an important work relevant to peace scholars, practitioners, and students. This incisive book offers an exciting and comprehensive historical analysis of the origins and development of peace education from the creation of the New Republic...
Learning the Left
Popular Culture, Liberal Politics, and Informal Education from 1900 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Learning the Left examines the ways in which young people and adults learned (and continue to learn) the tenets of liberal politics in the United States through the popular media and the arts from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. This collection of essays foregrounds mass culture...
The Bilingual School in the United States
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This muchneeded volume is an edited collection of primary sources that document the history of bilingual education in U.S. public schools during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Part I of the volume examines the development of duallanguage programs for immigrants, colonized Mexicans, and Native...
The Legacy of Middle School Leaders
In Their Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Sponsored by the Middle Level Education Research SIG of AERA, this inaugural volume in the new IAP book series, The Handbook of Resources in Middle Level Education, focuses on the contributions and impact of the leaders of the modern middle school movement. Contained with this volume are the edited...
Dynamics of Social Class
Race, and Place in Rural Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Half the world’s population lives in rural places, but education scholars and policy makers worldwide give little attention to rural of education. Indeed, most national systems, including in the developed world, treat their educational systems as institutions to “modernize” the global economy....
Social Reconstruction
People, Politics, Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
ocial Reconstruction as a philosophy, stream of thought or “official program” ois often synonymous with Depressionera Progressivism. But, Social Reconstruction, unlike progressivism, enjoyed political stardom. The spirit of progressivism, at least in terms of education, found a home in those enthusiasts...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
The Enterprise of Education is Book IV of the research series, Research on Education in Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East. This book examines the implications of rapid political, sociocultural, and economic change for the enterprise of education within particular countries in the regions of Africa,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
This is a book about four rural secondary schools of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, a newly independent Central Asian state of the former USSR. Utilizing case study methods, we describe and discuss how teachers, administrators and students are attempting to survive the proclaimed “transition” to democracy...
Finding John Galt
People, Politics, and Practice in Gifted Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This volume covers significant highlights in the history of gifted education, addressing significant contributors to the field, important political and policy concerns, and programs and practices of note. The book’s scope is holistic, using Ayn Rand’s concept of “men [and women] of the mind”...
Research on Urban Teacher Learning
Examining Contextual Factors Over Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
This book presents a range of evidencebased analyses focused on the role of contextual factors on urban teacher learning. Part I introduces the reader to the conceptual and empirical literature on urban teacher learning. Part II shares eight research studies that examine how, what, and why urban teachers...
by Charles R. Green, Ruthanne KurthSchai
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
The fate of public education and therefore the future of our democracy is at risk. Powerful forces are eroding commitment to public schools and weakening democratic resolve. Yet even in deeply troubling times, it is possible to broaden social imagination and empower efforts toward systemic progressive...