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Have a Little Faith Religion, Democracy, and the American Public School
ISBN: PB: 9780226400457, ISBN: HB: 9780226400310, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
It isn't just in recent arguments over the teaching of intelligent design or reciting the pledge of allegiance that religion and education have butted heads: since their beginnings nearly two centuries ago, public schools have been embroiled in heate...
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£18,00
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What Is Education?
ISBN: PB: 9780226381343, ISBN: HB: 9780226389387, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
136 pp., 20.5x14 cm
One day in 1938, John Dewey addressed a room of professional educators and urged them to take up the task of "finding out just what education is". Reading this lecture in the late 1940s, Philip W. Jackson took Dewey's charge to heart and spent the ne...
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Teaching Artist Handbook Volume 1: Tools, Techniques, and Ideas to Help Any Artist Teach
ISBN: PB: 9780226256887, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
272 pp., 23x15 cm
The creation of art is deeply personal yet remains strongly rooted within the collaborative meeting of teacher and student. Over centuries, techniques and encouragement have been passed along from experienced mentors to budding novices. Those who can...
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£15,00
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In Defense of Disciplines Interdisciplinarity and Specialization in the Research University
ISBN: PB: 9780226069326, ISBN: HB: 9780226069296, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings, 17 tables
Calls for closer connections among disciplines can be heard throughout the world of scholarly research, from major universities to the National Institutes of Health. In "Defense of Disciplines" presents a fresh and daring analysis of the argument sur...
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£24,00
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£78,00
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Testing Deaf Students in an Age of Accountability
ISBN: HB: 9781563683923, Gallaudet University Press, October 2008
248 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 22 tables, 10 figures
Despite the idealism represented by the No Child Left Behind law's mandate for accountability in education, deaf students historically and on average have performed far below grade level on standardized tests. To resolve this contradiction in deaf ed...
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