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Integrations The Struggle for Racial Equality and Civic Renewal in Public Education
ISBN: PB: 9780226786032, ISBN: HB: 9780226785981, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
The promise of a free, high quality public education is supposed to guarantee every child a shot at the American Dream. Yet, today many children of color do not have access to equal educational opportunities due primarily to white supremacy and class...
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£22,00
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£76,00
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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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Intellectual Properties of Learning A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke
ISBN: HB: 9780226487922, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
Providing a sweeping millennium-plus history of the learned book in the West, John Willinsky puts current debates over intellectual property into context, asking what it is about learning that helped to create the concept even as it gave the products...
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£30,00
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Interpreter Education in the Digital Age Innovation, Access, and Change
ISBN: HB: 9781563686382, Gallaudet University Press, April 2015
346 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 tables
This collection brings together innovative research and approaches for blended learning using digital technology in interpreter education for signed and spoken languages. Volume editors Suzanne Ehrlich and Jemina Napier call upon the expertise of 21...
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£60,00
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Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies Terminology For Art, Architecture, and Other Cultural Works (Updated Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9781606061503, Getty Publications, December 2013
258 pp., 24x17.8 cm, 68 black&white illus.
This is a practical tool and comprehensive introduction to the use of controlled vocabularies. This authoritative and detailed volume presents readers with a "how-to" guide to building controlled vocabulary tools, cataloguing and indexing cultural ma...
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£40,00
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Improvement by Design The Promise of Better Schools
ISBN: PB: 9780226089386, ISBN: HB: 9780226089249, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
One of the great challenges now facing education reformers in the United States is how to devise a consistent and intelligent framework for instruction that will work across the nation's notoriously fragmented and politically conflicted school system...
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£22,50
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£64,50
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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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Individual Differences
ISBN: PB: 9781575866246, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm
In 1894 John Dewey established his experimental laboratory school at the University of Chicago, with a focus on teaching each student according to their individual differences. This concept indicated a shift away from the emphasis on communal, classr...
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£22,50
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Improving Literacy in America Guidelines from Research
ISBN: PB: 9780300194647, Yale University Press, October 2012
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
An alarmingly high number of American students continue to lack proficiency in reading, math, and science. The various attempts to address this problem have all too often resulted in "silver bullet" solutions such as reducing class size or implementi...
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£17,00
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Illusions of Equality Deaf Americans in School and Factory, 1850-1950
ISBN: PB: 9781563685491, Gallaudet University Press, April 2012
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The working lives of Deaf Americans from the mid-1850s to the post-World War II era depended upon strategies created by Deaf community leaders to win and keep jobs through periods of low national employment as well as high. Deaf people typically soug...
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£37,50
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