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Lisa Heydlauff
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Every day, in India, millions of children go to school in city classrooms, mountain fields, desert tents and glowing temples. Crossing countless kilometres, riding bicycles, wheeling wheelchairs and waiting for buses on chaotic street corners, they come with bright woven bags heavy with books, walking in flip-flops, black-buckle shoes, barefoot,... more
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About the Book : The education of their children is of paramount importance to all Indian parents. They spend tens of thousands of crores each year to get their young educated. The country fetes its successful students: from Class X board toppers and those who crack the IIT JEE to... more
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Vandra Masemann ,
Anthony Welch
[Hardbound 1998]
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Herbert I London
[Hardcover 2010]
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This is an analysis of higher education in the past half century, a period of dramatic change and democratization. But it is more than that. The author has been a participant in the struggle to stem the decline in higher education, as it moved from an emphasis on classical liberal... more
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G R Evans
[Hardcover 2010]
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The University of Oxford was a medieval wonder. After its foundation in the late 12th century it designed one of Europe's most admired syllabuses for the study of the liberal arts (the trivium and the quadrivium) and theology, and attracted teachers of international caliber and fame. The ideas of brilliant... more
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Morton Keller ,
Phyllis Keller
[Paperback 2007]
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A candid portrait of America's greatest university and it's dazzling achievements and academic pratfalls through seven decades of dramatic change. Early twentieth-century Harvard was the country's oldest and richest university, but not necessarily its outstanding one. By the century's end, it was widely regarded as the nation's, and the world's,... more
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Douglas C Smith
[Hardcover 1991]
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This comprehensive volume features essays on education in modern Taiwan, each coauthored by a Chinese scholar and an American counterpart. The work furthers understanding and communication between two diverse cultures. The focus is on how another society is attempting to deal with issues in education currently being addressed in Western... more
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Daniel A Morales Gomez ,
Carlos Torres ,
Carlos Alberto Torres
[Hardcover 1992]
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The purpose of this contributed volume is to examine the links among research, policy, and change in education in Latin America in the context of the relationships between the economy, politics, and the state in the 1980s. The case analyses will discuss the challenges these societies face in education in... more
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James Marshall ,
J D Marshall
[Hardcover 2004]
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Edward J Larson
[Paperback 2003, 3rd Edition]
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The debate over evolutionary teaching in the public schools remains one of the most emotion-charged controversies in twentieth-century America. This book, ranging from before the Scopes trial of 1925 to the creationism disputes of the 1980s, offers the first comprehensive account of th educational and legal battles erupting from this... more
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David Houle ,
Jeff Thomas Cobb
[Paperback 2011]
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"A comprehensive guide to transforming American schools Futurist David Houle issues a call to action to everyone who is concerned about education in America. He argues that reinventing our system is inevitable and we already have the information and capabilities to make the necessary changes. challenges us to ask the... more
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Janet Ward Schofield
[Paperback 1995]
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Computers and Classroom Culture explores the meaning of computer technology for our schools. In clear and direct prose, Janet Schofield examines ways that computer use is shaped by the social context in which it occurs and how attitudinal and organizational barriers obstruct it. She brings to light issues of gender... more
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Edward E Gordon ,
Elaine H Gordon
[Hardcover 2002]
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This book is the first comprehensive history of how the American people achieved varying degrees of literacy from early colonial times to the modern era. The authors demonstrate that literacy education is not synonymous with schooling. By focusing on people rather than statistics, including literacy among women and minority groups,... more
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Libby Purves
[Paperback 2007]
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This lively selection brings together journalist and broadcaster Libby Purvesa (TM) experiences as journalist, parent, governor and former pupil of half a dozen assorted schools from Bangkok to Tunbridge Wells, displaying her eclectic and provocative opinions and ideas on teaching and learning. This collection of the best of her writing... more
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Robert Hebert Quick
[Paperback 2011]
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and... more
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Alan Rogers
[Paperback 2010]
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This is the first full study of non-formal education on an international scale since the 1980s. The book describes the emergence of the concept in the context of development and educational reform. It traces the debate about non-formal education from its origins in 1968 to the mid 1980s, and looks... more
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Eleoussa Polyzoi ,
Michael G Fullan ,
John P Anchan
[Hardcover 2003]
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The book gives us a dynamic insight into the process of educational change in countries that have gone through revolutions, rather than the more familiar evolutionary changes. The authors explore the complex nature and process of change in a selection of former communist countries, including: Russia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania... more
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Joan Simon
[Paperback 1979]
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Laurence Brockliss ,
Brockliss
[Hardbound 1993]
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Stephen L Harp
[Hardcover 1998]
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How do nations inculcate loyalty? In Learning to Be Loyal, Harp explorers the role of primary education as the means by which both France and Germany used the teaching of national language, culture, geography, and history to transform ordinary people's local and religious identities into national ones.... more
