This inaugural volume is a forum for stakeholders and scholars to examine current trends and identify future directions in comparative and international education, using several essays as a context for discussion and analysis.
Before radio and sound movies, early 20th century performers and lecturers traveled the nation providing entertainment and education to Americans thirsty for culture.
Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite in class.
For Latin America today, this book offers the latest available economic, demographic, political, and cultural information, with solid statistical data expressing freedom, violence, and governmental orientation.
This book explores the world of Nigerian universities to offer an innovative perspective on the history of development and decolonisation from the 1930s to the 1960s.
A compelling memoir by the first woman president of a major American universityHanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education.
Der Band versammelt historische und systematische Studien von Wilfried Lippitz der letzten Jahre zur Theorie, Geschichte und internationalen Verbreitung der Phänomenologischen Erziehungswissenschaft.
This book describes the contributions of twenty-two educators and events that have shaped the field of education, often receiving little to no public recognition, including: Edmonia Godelle Highgate, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Selena Sloan Butler, Alonzo Aristotle Crim, Sabbath Schools, and African American Boarding Schools.
This book is a narrative study of the lives and experiences of sixty-eight Black collegians in a set of northern private colleges in the Midwest between 1945 and 1965.
This book is an exposition of how political, cultural, historical, and economic structures and processes shape the nature and character of curriculum landscapes globally.
Der Band fasst erziehungswissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse und Positionierungen zur aktuellen historischen Phase, die mit guten Gründen als der endgültige Bruch mit soziopolitischen, -kulturellen und -moralischen Ordnungsvorstellungen des 20.
In einer verdichteten Darstellung wird die Entwicklung sozialer Betätigung und ihrer Professionalisierung beschrieben – von den Gesellschaften der Aufklärung über soziale Bewegungen und Antworten international auf die soziale Frage in öffentlicher und freier Armenpflege und die Entfaltung von social work hin zu seinen Ausprägungen im Wohlfahrtsstaat unter Bedingungen des sozialen und globalen Wandels.
This book considers a crucial moment in the development of English higher education, and also provides a new and comprehensive history of the early decades of Durham University.
This book outlines the lives of six female members of the Irish Ascendancy, and describes their involvement with educational provision for poor children in Ireland at the end of the long eighteenth century.
This book examines black intellectual thought during from 1890-1940, and its relationship to the development of the alternative black curriculum in social studies.
This book explores the Paris Ecole Militaire as an institution, arguing for its importance as a school that presented itself as a model for reform during a key moment in the movement towards military professionalism as well as state-run secular education.
This book provides classroom practice and research studies that verify Reacting to the Past (RTTP)-a student-centered, active learning pedagogy that provides college students and faculty unique teaching and learning opportunities-as a high impact practice for student learning and engagement.
The Holocaust is inseparable from the Israeli identities even seven decades following the atrocities during World War II, Israeli daily life is shaped by the horrible crimes committed by the Nazis.
This book draws on recent deconstructions around the idea of 'femininity' as a social, racial and class construct and explores the diversity of spaces that may be defined as educational that range from institutional contexts to family, to professional outlooks, to racial identity, to defining community and religious groupings.
Groundbreaking in its international, interdisciplinary, and multi-professional approach to diversity and inclusion in higher education, this volume puts theory in conversation with practice, articulates problems, and suggests deep-structured strategies from multiple perspectives including performed art, education, dis/ability studies, institutional as well as government policy, health humanities, history, jurisprudence, psychology, race and ethnicity studies, and semiotic theory.
This edited volume reflects on how the "e;transnational"e; features in education as well as policies and practices are conceived of as mobile and connected beyond the local.
This book explores how the expectations of historical justice movements and processes are understood within educational contexts, particularly history education.
This handbook focuses on the education systems in the three Americas, North, Central and South America, and includes a chapter on most countries in the region.
In writing this book, Elena Stevens' aim is to respond to calls for a more diverse, decolonised curriculum - calls which have become more insistent following the reinvigoration of the Black Lives Matter movement, the #MeToo movement and other landmark events.
An original history of six generations of an African American family living in Washington, DC Between Freedom and Equality begins with the life of Capt.
