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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Geschichte der Päd., Note: Sehr gut, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (Institut für Pädagogik), Veranstaltung: WS 2004/05……続きを見る

Against fantastic odds, a small group of men had built a fleet that proved one of the decisive factors in the American Revolution and the War of 1812. They had gathered the wealth that founded the f……続きを見る

Although considered a figure of great importance and influence by his contemporaries, Edmond Holmes has been consigned to relative obscurity in the progressive educational tradition. This book reins……続きを見る

This accessible text provides an international study of critical educational leaders who established the foundation for Early Childhood Education across continents in the 19th and early 20th centuri……続きを見る

The biography of a visionary whose life and work exemplifies and reflects that period of Canada’s history. It is the story of an Englishman who came to Canada with the high-minded ambition to educat……続きを見る

East Oxford Primary School has been serving the local community for almost 150 years. Its story mirrors the development of the education system in the United Kingdom, as the school both responded to……続きを見る

This book analyzes the political economy of higher education finance across a range of OECD countries, exploring why some students pay extortionate tuition fees whilst for others their education is ……続きを見る

At 5:30 p.m. on May 6, 1970, an embattled Ohio State University President Novice G. Fawcett took the unprecedented step of closing down the university. Despite the presence of more than 1,500 armed ……続きを見る

For more than 150 years it was the world’s most powerful force: between victory at Trafalgar in 1805 and the withdrawal from ‘east of Suez’ in the 1960s, the ships of the Royal Navy were ubiquitous.……続きを見る

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (10 May 1810 in Norwich[1] – 6 March 1897 in Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire), was the compiler ofBrewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, and The Reader'……続きを見る

"GRIPPING. ... AN HOUR-BY-HOUR ACCOUNT." ー WALL STREET JOURNAL • From one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history comes a masterful account of Lindbergh’s death-defying nonstop transatlan……続きを見る

A wonderfully engaging and entertaining history of the great dons of the last two hundred years, by one of our leading historians of ideas. Rich in anecdote, and displaying all the author’s customar……続きを見る

This practical manual been written for the car-owner who is already a competent driver under normal road conditions but who would like to be a better-than-average driver, and especially for the man ……続きを見る

This book explores the nexus between education and politics in Lebanon, Northern Ireland, and Macedonia, drawing from an extensive body of original evidence and literature on power-sharing and post-……続きを見る

Step back into 1920s Alabama, where grit, laughter, and the red clay roads of the Black Belt shape one young woman’s unforgettable first year of teaching Cotton-Patch Schoolhouse follows 18‑year‑old……続きを見る

America’s founders envisioned a federal government of limited and enumerated powers. What they could not envision, of course, was the vast and complex infrastructure that the growing nation would de……続きを見る

Schooling the New South deftly combines social and political history, gender studies, and African American history into a story of educational reform. James Leloudis recreates North Carolina’s class……続きを見る

In the twentieth century, illiteracy and its elimination were political issues important enough to figure in the fall of governments (as in Brazil in 1964), the building of nations (in newly indepen……続きを見る

Using the Kennedy and Johnson archives to analyze the evolution of educational policy from the perspective of the executive branch, Graham finds that the central theme was executive planning through……続きを見る

Most educators have heard of the Jeanes Teachers and know something of their work as supervisors of black rural schools in the southern states. The present volume ー historical, descriptive, and cri……続きを見る

The largest enterprise in the capitalist world between 1920 and 1945, the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German National Railway) was at the center of events in a period of great turmoil in Germany. In this, ……続きを見る

When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, Prince Edward County, Virginia, home to one of the five cases combined by the Court under Brown, abolishe……続きを見る

In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil ……続きを見る

African American schools in the segregated South faced enormous obstacles in educating their students. But some of these schools succeeded in providing nurturing educational environments in spite of……続きを見る

Recognizing the railroad’s importance as both symbol and experience in Victorian America, Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence there. F……続きを見る

The NAACP’s fight against segregated education ー the first public interest litigation campaign ー culminated in the 1954 Brown decision. While touching on the general social, political, and economi……続きを見る

When the Supreme Court overturned Louisville’s local desegregation plan in 2007, the people of Jefferson County, Kentucky, faced the question of whether and how to maintain racial diversity in their……続きを見る

The largest enterprise in the capitalist world between 1920 and 1932, the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German National Railway) was at the center of events in a period of great turmoil in Germany. In the fi……続きを見る

Traditional narratives of black educational history suggest that African Americans offered a unified voice concerning Brown v. Board of Education. Jack Dougherty counters this interpretation, demons……続きを見る

In the years immediately following the Civil War ー the formative years for an emerging society of freed African Americans in Mississippi ー there was much debate over the general purpose of black s……続きを見る