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Stories of the Eight-Year Study

Reexamining Secondary Education in America

By: Craig Kridel,Robert V. Bullough Jr.

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Stories of the Eight-Year Study

Reexamining Secondary Education in America

By: Craig Kridel,Robert V. Bullough Jr.

Winner of the 2008 AERA Division B Outstanding Book Award Presenting the first complete history of the Progressive Education Association's Eight-Year Study, which took place during the 1930s and the 1940s, this book corrects common misinterpretations of one of the most important educational experiments of the twentieth century and explores the study's value for reexamining secondary education in America today.

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State University of New York Press

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0791480259

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9780791480250

Society and Education in Brazil

By: Robert J. Havighurst,J. Roberto Moreira

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Society and Education in Brazil

By: Robert J. Havighurst,J. Roberto Moreira

A groundbreaking English-language study of the transformation in education in mid-twentieth century Brazil, and the social and economic forces that shaped it. It also looks at how, in turn, education is shaping the rapid transformation of Brazilian society.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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082297407X

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9780822974079

Panajachel

A Guatemalan Town in Thirty-year Perspective

By: Robert E. Hinshaw

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Panajachel

A Guatemalan Town in Thirty-year Perspective

By: Robert E. Hinshaw

Building on Sol Tax's pioneering work of the economic organization of Panajachel in the 1930s, Hinshaw describes this Guatemalan village and analyzes the differences among Indians in other villages responding to environmental, social, and economic changes in the next quarter century. This book offers a unique examination of belief patterns and social relations, and the continuity and change in the society's worldview.

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822977524

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9780822977520

Preparing Students for Life Beyond College

A Meaning-Centered Vision for Holistic Teaching and Learning

By: Robert J. Nash,Jennifer J.J. Jang 張文馨

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Preparing Students for Life Beyond College

A Meaning-Centered Vision for Holistic Teaching and Learning

By: Robert J. Nash,Jennifer J.J. Jang 張文馨

At a time when STEM research and new technologies are dominating the curricula of colleges and universities, this important book refocuses the conversation on holistic education for all students. Organized around the most important and difficult questions that students face, Preparing Students for Life Beyond College explores a vision of education that will enable students to talk about universal issues openly and honestly, preparing them for life beyond their formal education. Featuring a variety of traditional and innovative pedagogies, strategies, recommendations, and case studies, this practical resource provides student affairs practitioners and higher education faculty in a variety of disciplines with concrete approaches for developing campuses and classes that encourage critical thinking and reflection. This exciting book prepares colleges and universities to help students create meaning in their lives—no matter the discipline, campus location or delivery system.

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Routledge

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1317600118

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9781317600114

Internal Migration In Sri Lanka And Its Social Consequences

By: Robert N. Kearney

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Internal Migration In Sri Lanka And Its Social Consequences

By: Robert N. Kearney

This book probes features of internal migration in Sri Lanka and some of the social and political consequences of these population shifts. It examines the aspects of societal upheavals related to internal migration: unbalanced sex ratios, rising rates of suicide, and increased ethnic conflict. .

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Routledge

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042971257X

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9780429712579

Family Worlds

A Psychosocial Approach to Family Life

By: Robert D. Hess,Gerald Handel

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Family Worlds

A Psychosocial Approach to Family Life

By: Robert D. Hess,Gerald Handel

How does a family function? How does a family make a distinctive life of its own while living according to the values of society? In what ways is a family a unit when all its members have personalities of their own? How can we understand diversity among families? Robert D. Hess and Gerald Handel sensitively explore the dynamics of family life in five narrative case studies. The Clarks, Lansons, Littletons, Newbolds, and Steeles are all “typical” families with representative social, cultural, and psychological problems. By simultaneously studying each family as a small group and as a set of individual personalities, the authors have captured the interplay between personality and family as each group works out its own special way of coping with its problems. Further, they have formulated several principles of family functioning that help focus comparison. Family Worlds was the first, and is still one of the few studies, to interview each member of the family, giving equal weight to children as well as to adults, so each family member’s perspective is factored into Hess and Handel’s family portraits. A new introduction to the Transaction edition illuminates just how significant this ground-breaking study still is today and highlights the new implications it has for today’s families as well as emerging approaches.

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194

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Transaction Publishers

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1412863554

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9781412863551

Constitutional Domains

Democracy, Community, Management

By: Robert Post

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Constitutional Domains

Democracy, Community, Management

By: Robert Post

In a series of remarkable forays, Post develops an original account of how law functions in a democratic society. He draws on work in sociology, philosophy, and political theory, to offer a radically new perspective on some of the most pressing constitutional issues of our day, such as the regulation of racist speech, pornography, and privacy.

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Harvard University Press

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0674165454

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Educability and Group Differences

By: Arthur Robert Jensen,Associate Professor of Speech Communication Arthur Jensen

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Educability and Group Differences

By: Arthur Robert Jensen,Associate Professor of Speech Communication Arthur Jensen

Jensen is a controversial figure, largely for his conclusions based on his and other research regarding the causes of race based differences in intelligence and in this book he develops more fully the argument he formulated in his controversial Harvard Education Review article 'How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?'. In a wide-ranging survey of the evidence he argues that measured IQ reveals a strong hereditary component and he argues that the system of education which assumes an almost wholly environmentalist view of the causes of group differences capitalizes on a relatively narrow category of human abilities. Since its original publication the controversy surrounding Jensen's ideas has continued as successive generations of psychologists, scientists and policy-makers have grappled with the same issues.

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Routledge

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0415678560

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The Black Struggle for Public Schooling in Nineteenth-Century Illinois

By: Robert L. McCaul

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The Black Struggle for Public Schooling in Nineteenth-Century Illinois

By: Robert L. McCaul

In the pre-Civil War and Civil War periods the Illinois black code deprived blacks of suffrage and court rights, and the Illinois Free Schools Act kept most black children out of public schooling. But, as McCaul documents, they did not sit idly by. They applied the concepts of “bargaining power” (rewarding, punishing, and dialectical) and the American ideal of “community” to participate in winning two major victories during this era. By the use of dialectical power, exerted mainly via John Jones’ tract, The Black Laws of Illinois, they helped secure the repeal of the state’s black code; by means of punishing power, mainly through boycotts and ‘‘invasions,’’ they exerted pressures that brought a cancellation of the Chicago public school policy of racial segregation. McCaul makes clear that the blacks’ struggle for school rights is but one of a number of such struggles waged by disadvantaged groups (women, senior citizens, ethnics, and immigrants). He postulates a “stage’’ pattern for the history of the black struggle—a pattern of efforts by federal and state courts to change laws and constitutions, followed by efforts to entice, force, or persuade local authorities to comply with the laws and constitutional articles and with the decrees of the courts.

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SIU Press

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0809380536

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9780809380534

Encyclopedia of Multicultural Education

By: Bruce Mitchell,Robert E. Salsbury

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Encyclopedia of Multicultural Education

By: Bruce Mitchell,Robert E. Salsbury

In the study of multicultural education, there are key names, places, concepts, and legal actions which provide a foundation for the field. This reference includes more than 400 entries from a broad range of topics related to multicultural education, which the authors define as education geared toward reducing bias, ensuring equity, and promoting understanding of the self and others. Each item in the encyclopedia has been chosen for its value in illuminating one or more particular concerns in the field. Each entry not only helps to identify and place in an historical perspective a concept, place, person, event, or legal action, but also links that topic to an important aspect of multicultural education. While the encyclopedia provides coverage of numerous terms from the social sciences and discusses various court decisions and historical events, it also includes entries for notable persons from a wide range of cultural groups. These persons exemplify the achievements and diversity of America's many cultures and are often discussed within a multicultural curriculum. In addition, the volume provides entries for cultural and ethnic groups. These entries discuss the educational needs and experiences of the group. Thus there are entries for such groups as African-Americans, Anglo-Americans, Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Jewish-Americans; for organizations, such as the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith; for several Native American people; for persons, such as George Washington Carver, Geronimo, and Jesse Jackson; and for numerous terms and concepts, such as busing, institutional racism, gender equity, quota systems, and reverse discrimination. Entries provide bibliographic information, and the volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313005249

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9780313005244

The Longevity Revolution

The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life

By: Robert N. Butler

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The Longevity Revolution

The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life

By: Robert N. Butler

Pulitzer-prize winning author Dr. Robert Butler coined the term "ageism" and made "Alzheimer's" a familiar word. Now he brings his formidable knowledge and experience in aging issues to a recent and unprecedented achievement: the extension of human life expectancy by thirty years. As Butler shows, our society had not yet adapted to this change. The U.S. has not made a research investment in aging. Only eleven medical schools out of 145 have geriatrics departments compared to England where geriatrics is the number two specialty. We have not solidified private pension plans or strengthened Social Security to ensure that people do not outlive their resources. In this urgent and ultimately optimistic book, Dr. Butler shows why and how we must re-examine our personal and societal approach to aging right now, so that the boomers and the generations that follow may have a financially secure, vigorous, and healthy final chapter life.

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PublicAffairs

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1586488554

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A Decisive Decade

An Insider's View of the Chicago Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s

By: Robert B McKersie

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A Decisive Decade

An Insider's View of the Chicago Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s

By: Robert B McKersie

The deeply personal story of a historic time in Chicago, Robert B. McKersie’s A Decisive Decade follows the unfolding action of the Civil Rights Movement as it played out in the Windy City. McKersie’s participation as a white activist for black rights offers a unique, firsthand viewpoint on the debates, boycotts, marches, and negotiations that would forever change the face of race relations in Chicago and the United States at large. Described within are McKersie’s intimate observations on events as they developed during his participation in such historic occasions as the impassioned marches for open housing in Chicago; the campaign to end school segregation under Chicago Schools Superintendent Benjamin Willis; Operation Breadbasket’s push to develop economic opportunities for black citizens; and dialogs with corporations to provide more jobs for blacks in Chicago. In addition, McKersie provides up close and personal descriptions of the iconic Civil Rights leaders who spearheaded some of the most formative battles of Chicago’s Civil Rights movement, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Reverend Jesse Jackson, Timuel Black Jr. and W. Alvin Pitcher. The author illumines the tensions experienced by two major institutions in responding to the demands of the civil rights movement: the university and the church. Packed with historical detail and personal anecdotes of these history-making years, A Decisive Decade offers a never-before-seen perspective on one of our nation’s most tumultuous eras.

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SIU Press

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0809332450

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9780809332458

Human Conditions

The Cultural Basis of Educational Developments

By: Robert A Levine,Merry White

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Human Conditions

The Cultural Basis of Educational Developments

By: Robert A Levine,Merry White

First published in 1986, this book proposes and illustrates a new approach to the comparative analysis of educational policy, based on anthropological and historical inquiry. It reviews the transitions of Western countries, Japan, and the People’s Republic of China and in doing so investigates cultural ideas of human potential and how they inform social and economic goals of education. An analysis of the problems and emerging patterns in developing countries reveals how and why the meanings of life for the majority of their populations were still influenced by agrarian cultural models, even after the introduction of new educational and occupational careers. In place of universalistic economic models and homogenous modernization strategies, the authors propose that culture-specific meanings of education are determined by each country’s particular transition from its agrarian past to its socio-economic conditions at the time. They argue that change in educational development has been as varied in ends, means and significance outcomes as the cultures in which it has occurred and point to the need for a deeper understanding of cultural contexts in which policy choices and development plans are made.

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1351818937

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9781351818933

Delinquency in a Birth Cohort

By: Marvin E. Wolfgang,Robert M. Figlio,Thorsten Sellin

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Delinquency in a Birth Cohort

By: Marvin E. Wolfgang,Robert M. Figlio,Thorsten Sellin

Delinquency in a Birth Cohort is a turning point in criminological research in the United States," writes Norval Morris in his foreword. "What has been completely lacking until this book is an analysis of delinquency in a substantial cohort of youths, the cohort being defined other than by their contact with any part of the criminal justice system." This study of a birth cohort was not originally meant to be etiological or predictive. Yet the data bearing on this cohort of nearly ten thousand boys born in 1945 and living in Philadelphia gave rise to a model for prediction of delinquency, and thus to the possibility for more efficient planning of programs for intervention. It is expert research yielding significant applications and, though largely statistical, the analysis is accessible to readers without mathematical training. "No serious scholar of the methods of preventing and treating juvenile delinquency can properly ignore this book."—LeRoy L. Lamborn, Law Library Journal "The magnitude of [this] study is awesome. . . . It should be a useful guide for anyone interested in the intricacies of cohort analysis."—Gary F. Jensen, American Journal of Sociology "A book the student of juvenile delinquency will find invaluable."—Criminologist

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University of Chicago Press

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0226905586

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The Papers of Robert A. Taft: 1949-1953

By: Robert Alphonso Taft,Clarence E. Wunderlin

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The Papers of Robert A. Taft: 1949-1953

By: Robert Alphonso Taft,Clarence E. Wunderlin

The final volume of the Taft papers This fourth and final volume of a selected edition of the papers of Robert A. Taft documents Taft's post-World War II and congressional experiences until his death in 1953. Regardless of his conservative commitments, Taft saw the need for responsible reform. In the immediate postwar years, he recognized the need for federal aid to education, for social welfare legislation that assisted the poor, and for federal support for public housing. Out of political necessity, Taft became more partisan as the 1950 senatorial campaign approached, convinced he had to win reelection in Ohio by a large margin if he was to establish himself as a frontrunner in the primary campaign for the 1952 presidential election. Moderate Republicans spurned Taft and doubted that the serious, partisan senator could successfully head a national ticket. His support, nevertheless, was essential to the 1952 Eisenhower presidential campaign. Taft's service as Senate majority leader proved indispensable to President Eisenhower during the early months of his first term, helping the president navigate the byways of the nation's capital. Even after his diagnosis of cancer in April 1953, he continued to work at his senatorial duties until he died in July 1953. This volume completes the contribution that The Papers of Robert A. Taft provides to the study of United States political and diplomatic history, Ohio history, and conservative political theory.

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Kent State University Press

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0873388518

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9780873388511

Foundational Issues in Christian Education

An Introduction in Evangelical Perspective

By: Robert W. Pazmiño

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Foundational Issues in Christian Education

An Introduction in Evangelical Perspective

By: Robert W. Pazmiño

An exploration of the disciplines used to form an integrated conception to Christian education from which principles and guidelines can be drawn.

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0801021065

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Stories of the Eight-Year Study

Stories of the Eight-Year Study

Society and Education in Brazil

Society and Education in Brazil

Panajachel

Panajachel

Preparing Students for Life Beyond College

Preparing Students for Life Beyond College

Internal Migration In Sri Lanka And Its Social Consequences

Internal Migration In Sri Lanka And Its Social Consequences

Family Worlds

Family Worlds

Constitutional Domains

Constitutional Domains

Educability and Group Differences

Educability and Group Differences

The Black Struggle for Public Schooling in Nineteenth-Century Illinois

The Black Struggle for Public Schooling in Nineteenth-Century Illinois

Encyclopedia of Multicultural Education

Encyclopedia of Multicultural Education

The Longevity Revolution

The Longevity Revolution

A Decisive Decade

A Decisive Decade

Human Conditions

Human Conditions

Delinquency in a Birth Cohort

Delinquency in a Birth Cohort

The Papers of Robert A. Taft: 1949-1953

The Papers of Robert A. Taft: 1949-1953

Foundational Issues in Christian Education

Foundational Issues in Christian Education

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