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Idealism Transformed

The Making of a Progressive Educator

By: Beatrice Anne Wood

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Idealism Transformed

The Making of a Progressive Educator

By: Beatrice Anne Wood

John Harold Putman, inspector of Ottawa public schools between 1910 and 1937, was a leading progressive educator. At that time the progressive education movement in Canada was composed of two major intellectual strands, neo-Hegelian idealism and new liberalism. By tracing the thought and practices of this eminent educator, Wood shows how the neo-Hegelian philosophy of the late nineteenth century was transformed by its own logic and social imperatives into what seems to be its opposite. Idealism, ironically, ultimately comes to resemble pragmatism. Elected to the Ottawa City Council in 1905, Putman allied himself with progressive urban reformers seeking solutions to urban chaos, ward patronage, and inefficient city government. As inspector of public schools, he brought his reformist outlook to bear on providing for the discontented adolescent in the school and on implementing an efficient school system. Two schools established by Putman provided a diversified program for the adolescent; they led, however, not to the self-realization of the individual but to social unification and streaming for vocational roles. At the end of World War I the Ottawa public schools under Putman were judged the most efficient and progressive of any in Canada. But following the tenets of new liberalism and of urban school reformers in the United States, Putman achieved this goal by creating more bureaucratic practices and more formalized procedures, which again contradicted the idealist's moral, humanistic intent. In the postwar period Putman extended the efficiency principle to his survey of schools in British Columbia and his campaigns for junior high schools and county boards in Ontario. By the end of the 193OS, the author contends, the progressive educator had effectively transformed the use of schooling for life adjustment, not for intellectual purposes.

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250

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773504419

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9780773504417

Makran, Oman, and Zanzibar

Three-Terminal Cultural Corridor in the Western Indian Ocean, 1799-1856

By: Beatrice Nicolini

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Makran, Oman, and Zanzibar

Three-Terminal Cultural Corridor in the Western Indian Ocean, 1799-1856

By: Beatrice Nicolini

This unique contribution to the growing field of western Indian Ocean studies brings new light and new perspective on the early 19th century expansion of both Omani Sultan and the British. The important role played by the Baluch in East Africa is here discussed thanks to little known archive documents integrated with field work.

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208

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BRILL

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9004137807

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9789004137806

Mathematics Of Planet Earth: A Primer

By: Jochen Broecker,Ben Calderhead,Davoud Cheraghi,Colin Cotter,Darryl D Holm,Tobias Kuna,Beatrice Pelloni,Ted Shepherd,Hilary Weller

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Mathematics Of Planet Earth: A Primer

By: Jochen Broecker,Ben Calderhead,Davoud Cheraghi,Colin Cotter,Darryl D Holm,Tobias Kuna,Beatrice Pelloni,Ted Shepherd,Hilary Weller

Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE) was started and continues to be consolidated as a collaboration of mathematical science organisations around the world. These organisations work together to tackle global environmental, social and economic problems using mathematics.This textbook introduces the fundamental topics of MPE to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in mathematics, physics and engineering while explaining their modern usages and operational connections. In particular, it discusses the links between partial differential equations, data assimilation, dynamical systems, mathematical modelling and numerical simulations and applies them to insightful examples.The text also complements advanced courses in geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD) for meteorology, atmospheric science and oceanography. It links the fundamental scientific topics of GFD with their potential usage in applications of climate change and weather variability. The immediacy of examples provides an excellent introduction for experienced researchers interested in learning the scope and primary concepts of MPE.

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371

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World Scientific

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1786343851

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9781786343857

The Cello and the Nightingales

The Life of Beatrice Harrison

By: Beatrice Harrison

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The Cello and the Nightingales

The Life of Beatrice Harrison

By: Beatrice Harrison

In May 1924, the BBC broadcast a miracle to the world: a wild nightingale singing a duet with a remarkable young cellist called Beatrice Harrison. Over a million people tuned in to hear this live performance, which Beatrice repeated with a nightingale for the BBC every spring until 1942. These broadcasts transformed the public interest in nightingales – a species already in decline. If Beatrice’s duets with the nightingales touched a chord with the world, her own life proved to be as musical, free-spirited and inspiring. From her early years as a musical prodigy to recording with the most important composers of the day and playing for the wounded in the Second World War, this timely reissue of Patricia Cleveland-Peck’s classic book recounts Beatrice’s rich life vividly and features a new introduction by Maria Popova.

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218

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Canongate Books

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1805300199

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9781805300199

The Secret Diary of Mrs. John Quincy Adams

Wife pof the Sixth President of the United States

By: Beatrice Cayzer

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The Secret Diary of Mrs. John Quincy Adams

Wife pof the Sixth President of the United States

By: Beatrice Cayzer

President John Quincy Adams wed English-born Louisa Johnson after a two year pause between the asking and going through with the marriage. He tried to get our of marrying her, a twenty-two year old spinster with a shady promised of a dowry that could never be paid, and a murky secret in her background. During their 50 year long marriage both endured difficult times. As president, John Quincy Adams and Louisa were deeply disturbed from their earliest youth by the horrors of slavery. Together John Quincy and Louisa were able to accomplish the commencement of slavery. The challenge brought them together in a late amorous relationship soaring to blissful heights. Their relationship unfolds in Louisa's own strenuous voice from the pages of her secret diary. She spares no details about the journeys she takes, the hardships she endures, and most of all the hard work it takes to learn to put love into every word and action.

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360

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Green Dragon Books

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1623860237

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9781623860233

Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, 1950-75

By: Beatrice Trefalt

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Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, 1950-75

By: Beatrice Trefalt

This book charts comprehensively the various discoveries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific of Japanese soldiers still fighting the Second World War many years after it had ended. It explores their return to Japan and their impact on the Japanese people, revealing changing attitudes to war veterans and war casualties' families, as well as the ambivalence of memories of the war.

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287

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Routledge

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1134383428

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9781134383429

From the Grand Canal to the Dodder

Illustrious Lives

By: Beatrice Doran

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From the Grand Canal to the Dodder

Illustrious Lives

By: Beatrice Doran

The Dublin suburbs situated between the Grand Canal and the River Dodder consist of distinct neighbourhoods, each with their own character and style. It is an area that was, and continues to be, home to poets, writers, artists, politicians and academics, all of whom, in their own way, contributed to Irish life. Those featured include: Jack B. Yeats, artist; Mother Mary Aikenhead, Founder of the Religious Order; Brendan Behan, writer and dramatist; Mary Lady Heath, aviator and international athlete; Sophie Bryant, mathematician, educationist and suffragette; James Franklin Fuller, architect and Seamus Heaney, poet. In this book, Dr Beatrice M. Doran tells of the lives of some of the most fascinating people who once lived on the leafy roads and avenues of this interesting area of the city.

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364

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The History Press

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0750996404

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9780750996402

Book's by Beatrice Hamilton

Idealism Transformed

Idealism Transformed

Makran, Oman, and Zanzibar

Makran, Oman, and Zanzibar

Mathematics Of Planet Earth: A Primer

Mathematics Of Planet Earth: A Primer

The Cello and the Nightingales

The Cello and the Nightingales

The Secret Diary of Mrs. John Quincy Adams

The Secret Diary of Mrs. John Quincy Adams

Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, 1950-75

Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, 1950-75

From the Grand Canal to the Dodder

From the Grand Canal to the Dodder

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