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Author : Raymond Gish O'Connor
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Perilous Equilibrium written by Raymond Gish O'Connor and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1969 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raymond g O'connor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (669 download)
Download or read book Perilous Equilibrium, by Raymond G. O'connor written by Raymond g O'connor and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom A. O'Donoghue
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1934043761
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Schools as Dangerous Places written by Tom A. O'Donoghue and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lack of serious study on how dangerous schools as institutions can be is a little surprising given that the matter was put squarely on the research agenda in persuasive fashion by Waller back in 1932. The lack of response to the possibilities opened up means that a vibrant research agenda still awaits construction. This book will stimulate debate on the matter from the historical perspective. It consists of fifteen chapters drawing on historical case studies from the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, and Australia written by international scholars in the field. These chapters are helpfully grouped into three sections. The first section focuses on certain dangers to which pupils were exposed in the past and on certain dangerous practices which they promoted. The second section examines dangers to which teachers were exposed in the past along with dangerous practices which they themselves promoted. In the final and third section, the chapters explore the dangers to which teachers and students were exposed in the past at the university level. Throughout the book, the emphases range from dangers emanating from the institutions themselves and the patterns of relationships that developed in them, to what occurred due to particular ideologies and practices connected with sport, sex, religion, and science. Schools as Dangerous Places delivers a historical perspective of schools in a manner that is most unusual. This unique study helps us examine education through a very different lens.
Author : Robert L O'connell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000310647
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Sacred Vessels written by Robert L O'connell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing critically about something you have come to regard with affection must provoke mixed emotions. As I learned more and more about the modern battleship's shortcomings, I found myself, like so many before me, falling under its spell. I have traveled hundreds of miles to visit these wonderful ships, reverently preserved like a necklace of talismans around our nation's coasts. I have stood in awe under the great guns, wondering what it must have been like to hear them fire. Perhaps it is true that their sound and fury signified very little in terms of actual destructive power. But most people thought they did, and that was and still is important. Besides, for the most part, we were proud of those ships. Now we live in a time of weapons so terrible that we must actually hide them-beneath the ground and below the surface of the sea. But, like battleships, they keep the peace precisely because of what others think they can do. All things being equal, who would not prefer the dreadnoughts?
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Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610752145
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (521 download)
Download or read book Joe T Robinson: Always a Loyal Democrat (p) written by and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shakti Batra
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788178900254
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (2 download)
Download or read book T.S. Eliot written by Shakti Batra and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2001 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James F. Cook
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865547544
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Carl Vinson written by James F. Cook and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Known as the "Georgia Swamp Fox" or "the Admiral," Vinson was an astute and crafty tactician in the political arena with an incredibly acute sense of timing, who knew how to play pork barrel politics and knew when and how to compromise. For most of his tenure in Congress he was either the chairman or the ranking minority member of the Naval Affairs/Armed Services Committee. In time, he came to wield enormous power in shaping naval and military policies. In many respects, he was the principal architect of the nation's modern defense system." "Organized chronologically and written in prose, this work is based upon research in both primary and secondary sources. This study is all the more remarkable in view of the fact that Vinson did not write an autobiography, keep a diary, or preserve his personal papers. This biography of Carl Vinson is also the story of America and the South in a time of transition and change."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Yale University
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Yale in the World War written by Yale University and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345475801
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)
Download or read book The Essential Conversation written by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2004-09-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the insights she has gleaned from her close and subtle observation of parent-teacher conferences, renowned Harvard University professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot has written a wise, useful book about the ways in which parents and teachers can make the most of their essential conversation—the dialogue between the most vital people in a child’s life. “The essential conversation” is the crucial exchange that occurs between parents and teachers—a dialogue that takes place more than one hundred million times a year across our country and is both mirror of and metaphor for the larger cultural forces that define family-school relationships and shape the development of our children. Participating in this twice-yearly ritual, so friendly and benign in its apparent goals, parents and teachers are often wracked with anxiety. In a meeting marked by decorum and politeness, they frequently exhibit wariness and assume defensive postures. Even though the conversation appears to be focused on the student, adults may find themselves playing out their own childhood histories, insecurities, and fears. Through vivid portraits and parables, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot captures the dynamics of this complex, intense relationship from the perspective of both parents and teachers. She also identifies new principles and practices for improving family-school relationships. In a voice that combines the passion of a mother, the skepticism of a social scientist, and the keen understanding of one of our nation’s most admired educators, Lawrence-Lightfoot offers penetrating analysis and an urgent call to arms for all those who want to act in the best interests of their children. For parents and teachers who seek productive dialogues and collaborative alliances in support of the learning and growth of their children, this book will offer valuable insights, incisive lessons, and deft guidance on how to communicate more effectively. In The Essential Conversation, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot brings scholarship, warmth, and wisdom to an immensely important cultural subject—the way we raise our children.
Author : Kris Austen Radcliffe
Publisher : Six Talon Sign Fantasy & Futuristic Romance
ISBN 13 : 193973052X
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (397 download)
Download or read book The Burning World written by Kris Austen Radcliffe and published by Six Talon Sign Fantasy & Futuristic Romance. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s going to die. Whole nations burn. How? The Fates saw dragons. They just saw the wrong dragons. In the final, pulse-pounding installment of the Fate Fire Shifter Dragon series, fate abandons the people of the Dragons' Legion — and the world. While death rains from the sky, a fog shrouds Rysa’s ability to future-see a path out of the apocalypse — and to help Daisy as she manifests a terrifying, new Shifter ability. When an unlikely hero joins the Legion for one last battle, all might not be lost. But they quickly learn that they’re fighting not just in the present, but also in the past and the future, as well. Sacrifices were made. Heroes will be lost. Who will stop the Burning World?
Author : Willard Waller
Publisher : Ravenio Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Sociology of Teaching written by Willard Waller and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic work, Willard Waller examines the complex social dynamics of the classroom and the role of the teacher in shaping these interactions. Drawing on his extensive experience as an educator and sociologist, Waller provides valuable insights into the challenges and rewards of teaching, as well as the broader social and cultural factors that influence education. *The Sociology of Teaching* remains a seminal text in the field of educational sociology, offering a nuanced and thought-provoking analysis of the teaching profession and its place in society.
Author : J. M. Beach
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000980782
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Gateway to Opportunity? written by J. M. Beach and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the U.S. keep its dominant economic position in the world economy with only 30% of its population holding bachelor’s degrees? If the majority of U.S. citizens lack a higher education, can the U.S. live up to its democratic principles and preserve its political institutions? These questions raise the critical issue of access to higher education, central to which are America’s open-access, low-cost community colleges that enroll around half of all first-time freshmen in the U.S. Can these institutions bridge the gap, and how might they do so? The answer is complicated by multiple missions—gateways to 4-year colleges, providers of occupational education, community services, and workforce development, as well as of basic skills instruction and remediation.To enable today’s administrators and policy makers to understand and contextualize the complexity of the present, this history describes and analyzes the ideological, social, and political motives that led to the creation of community colleges, and that have shaped their subsequent development. In doing so, it fills a large void in our knowledge of these institutions.The “junior college,” later renamed the “community college” in the 1960s and 1970s, was originally designed to limit access to higher education in the name of social efficiency. Subsequently leaders and communities tried to refashion this institution into a tool for increased social mobility, community organization, and regional economic development. Thus, community colleges were born of contradictions, and continue to be an enigma. This history examines the institutionalization process of the community college in the United States, casting light on how this educational institution was formed, for what purposes, and how has it evolved. It uncovers the historically conditioned rules, procedures, rituals, and ideas that ordered and defined the particular educational structure of these colleges; and focuses on the individuals, organizations, ideas, and the larger political economy that contributed to defining the community college’s educational missions, and have enabled or constrained this institution from enacting those missions. He also sets the history in the context of the contemporary debates about access and effectiveness, and traces how these colleges have responded to calls for accountability from the 1970s to the present.Community colleges hold immense promise if they can overcome their historical legacy and be re-institutionalized with unified missions, clear goals of educational success, and adequate financial resources. This book presents the history in all its complexity so that policy makers and practitioners might better understand the constraints of the past in an effort to realize the possibilities of the future.
Author : George Santayana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Winds of Doctrine written by George Santayana and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan R. Sadovnik
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131540852X
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Exploring Education written by Alan R. Sadovnik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much-anticipated fifth edition of Exploring Education offers an alternative to traditional foundations texts by combining a point-of-view analysis with primary source readings. Pre- and in-service teachers will find a solid introduction to the foundations disciplines -- history, philosophy, politics, and sociology of education -- and their application to educational issues, including school organization and teaching, curriculum and pedagogic practices, education and inequality, and school reform and improvement. This edition features substantive updates, including additions to the discussion of neo-liberal educational policy, recent debates about teacher diversity, updated data and research, and new selections of historical and contemporary readings. At a time when foundations of education are marginalized in many teacher education programs and teacher education reform pushes scripted approaches to curriculum and instruction, Exploring Education helps teachers to think critically about the "what" and "why" behind the most pressing issues in contemporary education.
Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351944479
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Dickens and the City written by Jeremy Tambling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dickens's relationship to cities is part of his modernity and his enduring fascination. How he thought about, grasped and conceptualised the rapidly expanding and anonymous urban scene are all fascinating aspects of a critical debate which, starting virtually from Dickens's own time, has become more and more active and questioning of the significance of that new thing, the unknown and unknowable, city. Although Dickens was influenced by several European and American cities, the most significant city for Dickens was London, the city he knew as a boy in the 1820s and which developed in his lifetime to become the finance and imperial capital of the nineteenth-century. His sense of London as monumental and fashionable, modern and anachronistic, has generated a large number of writings and critical approaches: Marxist, sociological, psychoanalytic and deconstructive. Dickens looks at the city from several aspects: as a place bringing together poverty and riches; as the place of the new and of chance and coincidence, and of secret lives exposed by the special figure of the detective. Another crucial area of study is the relationship of the city to women, and women's place in the city, as well as the way Dickens's London matches up with other visual representations. This anthology of criticism surveys the field and is a major contribution to the study of cities, city culture, modernity and Dickens. It brings together key previously published articles and essays and features a comprehensive bibliography of work which scholars can continue to explore.
Author : Gianfrancesco Zanetti
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031355539
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)
Download or read book Equality and Vulnerability in the Context of Italian Political Philosophy written by Gianfrancesco Zanetti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-17 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the main goals of this book is to determine if, in the works of some of the key authors in the history of Italian political philosophy, a notion of “efficacy” can be found. In legal philosophy, “efficacy” is the capacity a norm has to effectively influence citizens’ behavior. The “principle of efficacy” is that according to which an order or rule exists as such when it is followed effectively in practice. Here by “efficacy” I mean the idea that normative phenomena are self-justifying, without reference to extrinsic systems of value (such as “natural law”). The examinations of several texts undertaken here constitute reflections on this theme, without any claim to systematicity. They have been grouped together, roughly in historical order, by their common respect for the contexts within which they reason and reach decisions, which lends them a characteristic flavor of harsh realism that at times relies on a minimalist use of traditional normative categories. The second theme that emerges through the respective chapters (each of which constitutes the text for a lesson in a course for Ph.D. students) is that of the relationship between “equality” and “vulnerability.” Here the idea is to elaborate a concept of “vulnerability” that is not underpinned by what we in Italy call an “anthropology,” that is, a fixed notion of human nature. Instead this concept should be comprehensible and graspable solely on the basis of the recognition of decisions and actions that are merely “efficacious,” that function “for what they are, and what they do.” This recognition doesn’t even need to be explicitly articulated by these authors with any specific, deliberately conscious awareness. The goal is not to identify a precise tradition of thought, one which elaborates a given line of reflection, but rather to highlight certain “themes” that emerge in the texts examined, even as the authors write with and for their own specific, contingent set of motives, which differ from time to time and place to place. These authors include some who are widely known, such as Dante, Machiavelli, and Beccaria. At times they are figures who typify certain key historical episodes, such as the Risorgimento (Giuseppe Mazzini) or Fascism (Cesare Lombroso and Santi Romano), while others reflect certain aspects of a contemporary debate (Pasolini and the “Braibanti affair”). The book is based on lectures given for a 2021 Ph.D. Course at the University of California, Berkeley’s Department of Italian Studies.
