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Inland Waters of Southern Africa: An Ecological Perspective

By: B.R. Allanson,R.C. Hart,J.H. O'Keeffe,R.D. Robarts

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Inland Waters of Southern Africa: An Ecological Perspective

By: B.R. Allanson,R.C. Hart,J.H. O'Keeffe,R.D. Robarts

Limnology - the study of inland waters - had its genesis in Europe about the turn of the century. The studies of Fore1 on Lake Geneva were of seminal value at this time. It prospered under the early guidance of Thienemann, Naumann and Wesenberg-Lund in Europe and, soon transplanted, of Birge and Juday in North America (to name just a few early spirits). Now, liminology is a respectable scientific discipline taught at many universities, and limnologists are recognized as important contributors to our understanding of how this fragile spaceship functions. All this acknowledged, it must also be acknowledged that limnology is not yet a globally comprehensive science. To be sure, much is known about globally applicable processes, and the structural elements of aquatic ecosystems worldwide, but limnological emphases, interests and concerns remain essentially European and North American in balance. Much is known about lakes and rivers in less than one fifth of the world's land area (northern temperature regions); rather little is known about inland waters elsewhere.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400923821

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How Schools Worked

Public Education in English Canada, 1900-1940

By: R.D. Gidney,W.P.J. Millar

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How Schools Worked

Public Education in English Canada, 1900-1940

By: R.D. Gidney,W.P.J. Millar

Between the 1880s and the 1940s, children in English Canada encountered schools and school systems profoundly different from today's. In How Schools Worked, R.D. Gidney and W.P.J. Millar map the contours of that world, retrieving it from the obscurity created not only by the passage of time but by fundamental shifts in organization, pedagogical values, and beliefs about the role of public education. Moving beyond the rhetoric on school reform that marked the period, How Schools Worked focuses squarely on schooling itself. How many children went to elementary or secondary school, how often, and for how long? What was the range of their educational attainments? How were their patterns of attendance influenced by social class, gender, and where they lived? What and how were they taught? How were they assessed and promoted from grade to grade? What were their teachers' qualifications and experience? What were their school buildings like? Who paid the bills and how much did they pay? How well or badly were children and young people served by their schools? And how did answers to these questions change over time? A sympathetic yet critical analysis, How Schools Worked is a portrait of a complex enterprise at work. Gidney and Millar offer a rich understanding of the period, a reappraisal of some major debates, and insights into educational issues that perplex us still.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773587306

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9780773587304

Inland Waters of Southern Africa: An Ecological Perspective

By: B.R. Allanson,R.C. Hart,J.H. O'Keeffe,R.D. Robarts

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By: B.R. Allanson,R.C. Hart,J.H. O'Keeffe,R.D. Robarts

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Inland Waters of Southern Africa: An Ecological Perspective

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How Schools Worked

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