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It Is Easy to Despair, but the Best Traits of the Human Character Are Not to Give Up, but Instead to Stand Up, Fight Back, and Save Oneself.
SHORT STORY # 32. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
One day I had a dream—to get my doctoral, or PhD degree. By that time I had a record of achievements and had no difficulties to be accepted to any university of my choice. The problem was, I was a woman, a structural engineer, and in 1980s not many women had PhDs.
With great anticipations...
Educating Elites
Class Privilege and Educational Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
The gaze of educational researchers has traditionally been turned 'down' toward the experiences of communities deemed at-risk, presumably with the purpose of improving their plight. Indeed, theorizing about the relationship between education, culture, and society has typically emerged from the study...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Shaping your future through the right education institution! Get All The Support And Guidance You Need To Be A Success At Finding The Ideal University!
They say that one's success greatly depends on numerous things, such as knowledge, skills, perseverance, and determination, just to name a...
Higher Education and Social Class
Issues of Exclusion and Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Working class groups have historically been excluded from participation in higher education. Past decades have seen an expansion of the system towards a more inclusive higher education, but participation among people from working class groups has remained persistently low. Is higher education unattractive...
by Jim Peters and Ian Thurlow
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2003
Be constructive. The Building Resiliency series takes a strengths-based approach that will help teachers gain an understanding of resiliency and how to build and nurture it. It works on the premise that resiliency-based practices assist young people to direct their energies towards achieving...
Learner's Privilege and Responsibility
A Critical Examination of the Experiences and Perspectives of Learners from Chinese Backgrounds in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This book is about the learner side of the teaching and learning equilibrium, centering on the educational experiences and perspectives of Chinese students in the United States. These students ranged from kindergarteners, adolescents, undergraduate, graduate, to adult learners, across the educational...
The Science Education of American Girls
A Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The Science Education of American Girls provides a comparative analysis of the science education of adolescent boys and girls, and analyzes the evolution of girls' scientific interests from the antebellum era through the twentieth century. Kim Tolley expands the understanding of the structural and...
Necessary Spaces
Exploring the Richness of African American Childhood in the South
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
In Necessary Spaces: Exploring the Richness of African American Childhood in the South, Saundra Murray Nettles takes the reader on a journey into neighborhood networks of learning at different times and places. Using autobiographical accounts, Nettles discusses the informal instructional practices...
Integrating Prosocial Learning with Education Standards
School Climate Reform Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Integrating Prosocial Learning with Education Standards demonstrates how to meet educational standards that privilege cognitive aspects of learning while also advancing prosocial or Whole Child efforts (e.g., social emotional learning, character education, and mental health promotion). The book utilizes...
African Students Studying in America
Their Experiences and Adjustment Problems at an Hbcu
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
This book explores the adjustment problems and experiences of international students who have studied in the United States of America.
First, it examines the varied adjustments that international students have had to deal with in general, and second, it investigates the experiences of African...
African American Males and Education
Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
African American Males in Education: Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity addresses a number of research gaps. This book emerges at a time when new social dynamics of race and other identities are shaping, but also shaped by, education. Educational settings consistently perpetuate racial...
The Company He Keeps
A History of White College Fraternities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Tracing the full history of traditionally white college fraternities in America from their days in antebellum all-male schools to the sprawling modern-day college campus, Nicholas Syrett reveals how fraternity brothers have defined masculinity over the course of their 180-year history. Based on extensive...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Initiative inédite, motivée par l’expression des attentes et besoins concrets des doctorants, cet ouvrage s’est fixé comme objectif de donner aux doctorants en sciences humaines et sociales de fin de 1ère année (et au-delà), un ensemble construit d’outils transversaux, théoriques, méthodologiques...
How to Become Inspired and Inspirational
The Importance of Nurturing Talent
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Your Community Of Educational Helpers: How To Become Inspired And Inspirational is a source of information to help allow enough time and space for you to develop your talent above and beyond your regular day of responsibilities. You can feel that you are accomplishing something just for yourself....