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This examination of the interrelationship of educational and social developments in Germany from 1810 to 1997, concentrates on the post-war German scene, analyzing the post-unification system. It argues that the German educational system has become inadequate and seems to have reached an impasse.

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This book provides a healthy guide for families by introducing practical, creative ways to balance these cravings for such technologies, to take care of themselves as individuals, to improve their relationships with one another, and to work with the educational community even ...

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This book provides a healthy guide for families by introducing practical, creative ways to balance these cravings for such technologies, to take care of themselves as individuals, to improve their relationships with one another, and to work with the educational community even ...

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Is the work ethic still viable as society evolves This book engages with widespread current anxieties about the future of work and its place in a fulfilled human life. It is a philosophical treatment of the nature of work and reconsiders the aims and procedures of education.

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Exploring a variety of female superhero narratives, including Wonder Woman comics and television shows like The Secrets of Isis, The Bionic Woman, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this book argues that twentieth-century superheroine stories historically depicted education as the path to female liberation and empowerment.

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The translation of Lyotard's work into English in 1984 marked an important stage in the globalization of the modernity/postmodernity debate involving the central thinkers of the late 20th century, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Richard Rorty, and others.

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The translation of Lyotard's work into English in 1984 marked an important stage in the globalization of the modernity/postmodernity debate involving the central thinkers of the late 20th century, Michel Foucault, Jrgen Habermas, Richard Rorty, and others.

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A concise comparative introduction to education in each major geographical region of the world and the major issues in international education today.

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A concise comparative introduction to education in each major geographical region of the world and the major issues in international education today.

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A discussion about the functions of education, drawing on a range of educational situations. It challenges the various functions of education as widely and conventionally perceived, and promotes the notion of education as a humanitarian response as the prime function.

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Examine the educational situations of a range of human groups that are marginalized or excluded from mainstream provision and also considers the idea that 'humane' means 'appropriate'. This book offers an engaging discussion about the functions of education, drawing on a range of educational situations.

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Education as Freedom is a groundbreaking edited text that documents and reexamines African-American empirical, methodological, and theoretical contributions to knowledge-making, teaching, and learning and American education from the nineteenth through the twenty-first century, ...

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This book will help public school educatorsunderstand that turnaround efforts are based on sound leadership principles nothing more, nothing less.It also provides school leaders with the critical skills to turn around failing schools and, more importantly, prevent their schools from failing in the first place.

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This is an analysis of the conditions which overseas students (particularly Africans) meet during their studies in the United Kingdom.

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There is now broad debate agreement that citizenship should form an important part of the curriculum. And that is where the agreement ends, yet busy practitioners have to teach citizenship effectively. This book is based on the assumption that theory needs to be related to practice and there is alot of practice from which we can learn.

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This volume addresses the challenge of education for citizenship at a specific, concrete level. It offers examples of efforts to create among students a new set of what Tocqueville called mores or culturally defining "habits of the heart".

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Translation of: Educacao como pratica da liberdade.

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Drawing extensively on contemporary research and empirical evidence, including that from the UK, Australia, Brazil and Europe, this book sets out the key ideas, concepts and approaches for education for environmental sustainability in the context of teacher education.

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Eleven of the best-known papers, written by women, for women, are analyzed here in chapters covering the women's rights press, the purpose of women's education, coeducation, women as teachers, and the professional and graduate education of women.

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The major stakeholder classes in education have three distinct ways by which they judge the quality of knowledge claims. At times this can cause considerable distraction or mis-communication among stakeholders.

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This book represents a unique compilation of essays written by scholars, national reformers on the right and the left, and adults who pursued an education while incarcerated, to guide local, state and national conversations about justice, rehabilitation and public safety.