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Spare the Rod Punishment and the Moral Community of Schools
ISBN: PB: 9780226785707, ISBN: HB: 9780226785677, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In Spare the Rod, historian Campbell F. Scribner and philosopher Bryan R. Warner investigate the history and philosophy of America's punishment and discipline practices in schools. To delve into this controversial subject, they first ask questions of...
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£20,00
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£76,00
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Creating Culture through Health Leadership
ISBN: HB: 9781947602601, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The essays in "Creating Culture through Health Leadership" focus on community organizing, building and resourcing through community action, organizing, and education. The contributors share their experiences of building networks and working with loca...
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£30,00
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Standing for Reason The University in a Dogmatic Age
ISBN: PB: 9780300251869, Yale University Press, June 2020
240 pp., 21x14 cm
<p>John Sexton argues that over six decades, a "secular dogmatism", impenetrable by dialogue or reason, has come to dominate political discourse in America. Political positions, elevated to the status of doctrinal truths, now simply are &qu...
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£12,99
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Institutional Literacies Engaging Academic IT Contexts for Writing and Communication
ISBN: PB: 9780226699349, ISBN: HB: 9780226699202, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 tables, 2 line drawings
Information technologies have become an integral part of writing and communication courses, shaping the ways students and teachers think about and do their work. But, too often, teachers and other educational stakeholders take a passive or simply rea...
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£28,00
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£72,00
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Cost of Inclusion How Student Conformity Leads to Inequality on College Campuses
ISBN: PB: 9780226704050, ISBN: HB: 9780226703862, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 tables
Young people are told that college is a place where they will "find themselves" by engaging with diversity and making friendships that will last a lifetime. This vision of an inclusive, diverse social experience is a fundamental part of the image col...
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£22,00
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£62,00
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Schola Ludens Europaeus Papers Offered to Roland Naul
ISBN: PB: 9781782551362, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, October 2018
300 pp., 21x14.7 cm, 100 black&white illus.
This collection of essays celebrates the 70th birthday of Professor Roland Naul. The chapters, written by colleagues and friends, illustrate the development of sport and physical activity research over four decades. The objectives were to give an ove...
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£27,50
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School, Society, and State A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890-1940
ISBN: PB: 9780226435305, ISBN: HB: 9780226772097, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 23x15 cm
"Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife", wrote John Dewey in his classic work "The School and Society". In "School, Society, and State", Tracy Steffes places that idea at the center of her exploration of the con...
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£31,50
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£42,00
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Doodling for Academics A Coloring and Activity Book
ISBN: PB: 9780226467047, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
96 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 40 line drawings
To an outsider, working as a university professor might seem like a dream: summers off, a few hours of class each week, an exchange of ideas with brilliant colleagues, books and late afternoon lattes... Who wouldn't envy that life? But those in the t...
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£11,50
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Perspectives from the Disciplines Stanford Online High School
ISBN: PB: 9781575867403, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this companion volume to "Bricks and Mortar", Jeffrey Scarborough and Raymond Ravaglia present a series of essays written by senior instructors and division heads at the Stanford Online High School (SOHS). Written from the perspective of the onlin...
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£22,50
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Community of Scholars, Community of Teachers
ISBN: PB: 9780984201099, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, August 2016
98 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm
Academics routinely engage with colleagues in the research community as a critical part of their work. But, although many researchers are also dedicated teachers, teaching tends to be seen as a private matter between a teacher and his or her students...
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£9,00
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