Social Sciences  /  Education
Lessons from the Foothills Cover Lessons from the Foothills Cover
Format: 
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781985900684
Pub Date: 24 Sep 2024
Illustrations: 13 b&w illustrations
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781985900691
Pub Date: 24 Sep 2024
Illustrations: 13 b&w illustrations
Description:
On Christmas Eve in 1859, sixty-five prominent armed white men rode into the small Kentucky town of Berea and forced the townspeople to close its integrated one-room schoolhouse. The mob perceived the school as a threat to white supremacy and the racial order. Abolitionist John Gregg Fee established the school for the expressed purpose of providing education to anyone eager to learn, regardless of their race—a notion that horrified those convinced of the sanctity of white supremacy.
An Illusion of Equity Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 270
ISBN: 9780813197661
Pub Date: 01 Aug 2023
Description:
Public education plays a crucial role in crafting a nation's future. In the United States, education reform policy, particularly the reliance on large-scale, standardized testing, is a growing topic of national conversation and concern. An Illusion of Equity: The Legacy of Eugenics in Today's Education demonstrates how centuries of propaganda have led us to accept the idea that test scores indicate something so valuable about human beings that they should be used to organize society.
Teaching Black Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9780822946953
Pub Date: 28 May 2022
Description:
Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching Black Life and Literature presents the experiences and voices of Black creative writers who are also teachers. The authors presented here write and teach across a variety of genres and at numerous intersections, including writers of poetry, fiction, experimental fiction, playwriting, and also from creative writers who are engaged in literary studies and criticism. Contributors from this book provide practical advice, engage with historical and theoretical questions about teaching in classrooms, workshops, and community settings.
Women and Peace Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9788869773013
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2020
Description:
This book reports not only a didactic experience but also research, offering a training model on peace mediation. The female protagonists of this research experience the role of trainers of other compatriots through a new didactic model. Compared to other books, the volume proposes for the first time a reflection of research - action on the themes of peace, security of the female gender.
Atmospheres of Learning Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 170
ISBN: 9788869771729
Pub Date: 31 May 2019
Series: Atmospheric Spaces
Illustrations: 5
Description:
Socialization in childhood and at a young age is marked, not only by measurable factors such as age, sex, ethnic group, religion or parents’ income, but also by variables such as depression, aggressiveness, inner calm or serenity. It makes all the difference whether a child experiences during their development an atmosphere of acceptance, gladness and emotional warmth, or one of depreciation, indifference and emotional coldness. The atmosphere in which a child is brought up shapes them as people, at least as much as the measurable factors of their social context.
Didactic Classroom Studies Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 244
ISBN: 9789188661456
Pub Date: 18 Dec 2018
Description:
In Didactic Classroom Studies a group of researchers from the University of Gothenburg who are working in the Scandinavian didactics' tradition show how pupil perspectives, teacher priorities, content and context interrelate, and have different didactical consequences for teaching and learning. Using practical examples the authors examine the nature of classroom work at various levels of education and in the full range of subject areas, including mathematics, science, languages, social science, and home economics. The editors then single out the importance of classroom studies as a potential research direction in didactic studies.
Wesleyan University, 1910–1970 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 708
ISBN: 9780819575197
Pub Date: 11 May 2015
Illustrations: 59 illus., 5 maps
Description:
In Wesleyan University, 1910 - 1970, David B. Potts presents an engaging story that includes a measured departure from denominational identity, an enterprising acquisition of fabulous wealth, and a burst of enthusiastic aspirations that initiated an era of financial stress. Threaded through these episodes is a commitment to social service that is rooted in Methodism and clothed in more humanistic garb after World War II.
Albert D. Kirwan Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9780813153230
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Illustrations: Illus
Description:
The name Albert Kirwan is inextricably bound with the University of Kentucky -- in sports, scholarship, and administration. His skills and interests were so many and varied that his accomplishments in one area could not long satisfy his restless nature; he captained and later coached the U.K.
Education and Responsibility Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9780813154336
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Description:
This book reveals the sources of the disquiet prevailing among educators over the apparent failure of the public school system to develop moral responsibility in America's youth. The doctrine of separation of church and state has made sectarian religious training illegal in public schools, and Tunis Romein shows that the task of providing moral guidance, suddenly thrust upon educators, has disclosed their deep schisms in educational philosophy -- basic contradictions which have split American education from top to bottom.Romein explains the basic conflicts in education by examining three educational philosophies -- progressivism, educational reconstructionism, and classical humanism -- and comparing all of them with the traditional Christian view.
Education for Tragedy Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9780813151229
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Description:
A distinguished educator and social critic here considers the demands put upon democratic and progressive policies in education, which remains, he believes, man's strongest hope for creating new bases for human values in an age of change and cultural crisis. The importance of human worth and individual advancement, within communities and varied age demographics, is analyzed.
Excellence and Equity Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9780813153704
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Description:
Since its establishment in 1965 the National Endowment for the Humanities has distributed many millions of dollars in grants. Has the money been well spent? What impact have the Endowment's programs had on the academic community, the schools, and the public at large?
Highlander Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 328
ISBN: 9780813152806
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Illustrations: Illus
Description:
and racial justice during a critical era in southern and Appalachian history. This volume is the first comprehensive examination of that extraordinary -- and often controversial -- institution.Founded in 1932 by Myles Horton and Don West near Monteagle, Tennessee, this adult education center was both a vital resource for southern radicals and a catalyst for several major movements for social change.
Moral and Spiritual Values in Education Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9780813151373
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Illustrations: Illus
Description:
This book deals with the multiple problem of education in the public schools as it relates to moral and spiritual values. The author cuts a wide swath through the tangled underbrush of church and state, religion and education, sacred and secular, spiritual and materialistic, "body and soul," and lets in a lot of light. To these problems the author brings a lifetime of courageous reflection and experience.
Power and Empowerment in Higher Education Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9780813154367
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Illustrations: Illus
Description:
The tangled relationship of power and higher education is a fascinating one. Where power centers arise on campus, they influence and are influenced by sources of power outside. Students, faculty and administration compete for authority within the academic community; citizens whose education has placed them in a position to obtain social, political, and economic power outside the university walls frequently use it in a way that deeply affects the direction and nature of academic development.
The Gates Open Slowly Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9780813153797
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Description:
Education in Kentucky has developed slowly, and even now the state ranks low in the nation in providing public funds for the development of its human resources. In this book the author, who was president of the University of Kentucky from 1917 to 1940, traces the tortuous path of education in the state from the pioneer log schoolhouse to the modern universities of Kentucky and Louisville.
The Humanities and the Understanding of Reality Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9780813154558
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Description:
In their concern with the perennial controversy between the two great areas in which men seek knowledge, three eminent literary scholars and a distinguished journalist in these essays address themselves to the question, "Do the humanities provide a form of understanding of reality that the sciences do not?"Monroe C. Beardsley maintains that the humanities considered as contributors to knowledge must deal with the same subject matter as the sciences, but literature and the arts can enlarge our powers of understanding human nature, although not in the way the sciences do (under empirically or logically verifiable laws).