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This book examines educational policy at primary, secondary and
university level in Ireland from the foundation of the State to the
present day. Primarily an attempt to set policy within a historical
context, the book draws together compelling research on the
evolution of key changes in topics as diverse as the use of
corporal punishment, the evolution of skills policy in post-primary
settings and the development of the universities in the post-1922
period. The book includes detailed analysis of more recent policy
initiatives and changes in, initial teacher education, curriculum
change, and special and inclusive education and will be of interest
to those working in the various fields, students and the general
public. It presents detailed discussions of change in the Irish
education system, demonstrating how policy initiatives,
particularly since the early 1990s, have brought about significant
transformation at all levels. In doing so, the book also
demonstrates that the origin of change often lay in earlier
developments, particularly those of the mid-1960s. Policy
development is closely linked to external factors and influences
and chapters on academic selection and teachers' recollections of
policy, for example, set developments within the wider historical
context employing the views and recollections of teachers so that
the influence of change on day-to-day practice is revealed.
WATERSTONES BEST BOOKS OF 2022 - SPORT 'This book is a work of art
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Jules Breach, football presenter On high-rise buildings, street
corners and stadium walls in countries around the world,
eye-catching murals pay tribute to footballing greats. From Messi
and Ronaldo to Rapinoe and Cruyff, these striking displays are
remarkable testaments to the awe and affection fans feel for these
football legends and cult heroes. Join renowned football writer and
broadcaster Andy Brassell as he explores this fascinating
phenomenon. Offering a fresh, highly visual perspective on the
global game, Football Murals is the first book to celebrate these
towering works of art. Beckenbauer and Cruyff, Rooney and
Ronaldinho, Totti and Salah, Zlatan and Zidane - being honoured
with a mural cements a player's place in a club's heritage and
links them to the heart of the community. This richly illustrated
book showcases the most impressive examples, explores their
inspirational qualities and examines what they say about these
icons and their sport. Written and curated by respected football
writer Andy Brassell, this ground-breaking book features more than
100 murals from around the world, capturing the scale, grandeur and
wit of this powerful and popular art form. Through a series of
short essays and extended captions, Andy shares the players'
stories, discusses the cultural politics and explains just why
these men and women have been immortalised in mural form. Covering
such diverse topics as Home Town Glory, Football Fame and The Cult
of the Coach, Football Murals addresses the issues important to
fans worldwide. It spans Marcus Rashford's inspirational mural in a
Manchester suburb, the George Best tribute on the East Belfast
estate where he was born, the 15-foot depiction of Megan Rapinoe in
St Paul, Minnesota, and the Naples 'shrine' to Diego Maradona.
In the history of education, the question of how computers were
introduced into European classrooms has so far been largely
neglected. This edited volume strives to address this gap. The
contributions shed light on the computerization of education from a
historical perspective, by attending closely to the different
actors involved - such as politicians, computer manufacturers,
teachers, and students -, political rationales and ideologies, as
well as financial, political, or organizational structures and
relations. The case studies highlight differences in political and
economic power, as well as in ideological reasoning and the
priorities set by different stakeholders in the process of
introducing computers into education. However, the contributions
also demonstrate that simple cold war narratives fail to capture
the complex dynamics and entanglements in the history of computers
as an educational technology and a subject taught in schools. The
edited volume thus provides a comprehensive historical
understanding of the role of education in an emerging digital
society.
From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the
bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and My Favorite Things
comes a wondrous collection of words and paintings that is a moving
meditation on the beauty and complexity of women's lives and roles,
revealed in the things they hold. "What do women hold? The home and
the family. And the children and the food. The friendships. The
work. The work of the world. And the work of being human. The
memories. And the troubles. And the sorrows and the triumphs. And
the love." In the spring of 2021, Maira and Alex Kalman created a
small, limited-edition booklet "Women Holding Things," which
featured select recent paintings by Maira, accompanied by her
insightful and deeply personal commentary. The booklet quickly sold
out. Now, the Kalmans have expanded that original publication into
this extraordinary visual compendium. Women Holding Things includes
the bright, bold images featured in the booklet as well as an
additional sixty-seven new paintings highlighted by thoughtful and
intimate anecdotes, recollections, and ruminations. Most are
portraits of women, both ordinary and famous, including Virginia
Woolf, Sally Hemings, Hortense Cezanne, Gertrude Stein, as well as
Kalman's family members and other real-life people. These women
hold a range of objects, from the mundane-balloons, a cup, a whisk,
a chicken, a hat-to the abstract-dreams and disappointments, sorrow
and regret, joy and love. Kalman considers the many things that fit
physically and metaphorically between women's hands: We see a woman
hold a book, hold shears, hold children, hold a grudge, hold up,
hold her own. In visually telling their stories, Kalman lays bare
the essence of women's lives-their tenacity, courage,
vulnerability, hope, and pain. Ultimately, she reveals that many of
the things we hold dear-as well as those that burden or haunt
us-remain constant and connect us from generation to generation.
Here, too, are pictures of a few men holding things, such as Rainer
Maria Rilke and Anton Chekhov, as well as objects holding other
objects that invite us to ponder their intimate relationships to
one another. Women Holding Things explores the significance of the
objects we carry-in our hands, hearts, and minds-and speaks to, and
for, all of us. Maira Kalman's unique work is a celebration of
life, of the act and the art of living, offering an original way of
examining and understanding all that is important in our world-and
ultimately within ourselves.
The official journal of the Organization of Educational Historians
VOLUME 39, NUMBER 1, 2012 Editor's Introduction, Paul J. Ramsey.
ARTICLES. NCLB-The Educational Accountability Paradigm in
Historical Perspective, Mark Groen. Using Microbiography to
Understand the Occupational Careers of American Teachers,
1900-1950, Robert J. Gough. Flannery O'Conner and Progressive
Education: Experiences and Impressions of an American Author, John
A. Beineke. The Idea of Infancy and Nineteenth-Century American
Education, Joseph Watras. The Great Depression and Elementary
School Teachers as Reported in Grade Teacher Magazine, Sherry L.
Field and Elizabeth Bellows. Called to Teach: Percy and Anna
Pennybacker's Contributions to Education in Texas, 1880-1899,
Kelley M. King. A Southern Progressive: M. A. Cassidy and the
Lexington Schools, 1886-1928, Richard E. Day and Lindsey N.
DeVries. History's Purpose in Antebellum Textbooks, Edward Cromwell
McInnis. Texas's Decision to Have Twelve Grades, Kathy Watlington.
The Rise and Demise of the SAT: The University of California
Generates Change for College Admissions, Susan J. Berger. Imagining
Harvard: Changing Visions of Harvard in Fiction, 1890-1940,
Christian K. Anderson and Daniel A. Clark. God and Man at Yale and
Beyond: The Thoughts of William F. Buckley, Jr. on Higher
Education, 1949-1955, James Green. Paul Ricoeur, Memory, and the
Historical Gaze: Implications for Education Histories,Sherri Rae
Colby. Indefinite Foundings and Awkward Transitions: The Grange's
Troubled Formation into an Educational Institution, Glenn P.
Lauzon. BOOK REVIEWS. Loss, C. P., Between Citizens and the State:
The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century,
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011, 344 pp., and
Urban, W. J., More Than Science and Sputnik: The National Defense
Education Act of 1958. Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama
Press, 2010, 264 pp. Reviewed by T. Gregory Barrett. Hendry, P.,
Engendering Curriculum History. New York: Routledge. 2011, 258 pp.
Reviewed by Daniel M. Ryan. D. E. Mitchell, , R. L. Crowson, and D.
Shipps, eds., Shaping Education Policy: Power and Process. New
York: Routledge. 2011, 312 pp. Reviewed by Sherri Rae Colby.
Gasman, M., The History of U.S. Higher Education: Methods for
Understanding the Past. New York: Routledge, 2010, 240 pp. Reviewed
by John A. Beineke. VOLUME 39, NUMBER 2, 2012 Editor's
Introduction, Paul J. Ramsey. ARTICLES. ""Whosoever Will, Let Him
Come"": Evangelical Millennialism and the Development of American
Public Education, John Wakefield. ""Good Fences Make Strange
Neighbors"": Released Time Programs and the McCollum v. Board of
Education Decision of 1948, David P. Setran. Evolution and South
Carolina Schools, 1859-2009, Benjamin J. Bindewald and Mindy
Spearman. Reverend John Witherspoon's Pedagogy of Leadership,
Christie L. Maloyed and J. Kelton Williams.Transatlantic Dialogue:
Pestalozzian Influences on Women's Education in the Early
Nineteenth Century America,Maria A. Laubach and Joan K. Smith. Is
Liberal Arts Education for Women Liberating?: From Cold War Debate
to Modern Gender Gaps, Andrea Walton. Coercion, If Coercion Be
Necessary: The Educational Function of the New York House of
Refuge, 1824-1874, Josie Madison. Shaping Freedom's Course: Charles
Hamilton Houston, Howard University, and Legal Instruction on U.S.
Civil Rights, Robert K. Poch. Theodore Sizer and the Development of
the Mathematics and Science for Minority Students Program at
Phillips Academy Andover,Jerrell K. Beckham. Disproportionate
Burden: Consolidation and Educational Equity in the City Schools of
Warren, Ohio, 1978-2011, Leah J. Daugherty Schmidt and Thomas G.
Welsh. The Power of Boarding Schools: A Historiographical Review,
Abigail Gundlach Graham. Challenge and Conflict to Educate: The
Brazos Agency Indian School, Brandon Moore, Karon N. LeCompte, and
Larry J. Kelly. ""Incommensurable Standards"": Academics' Responses
to Classical Arrangements of Native American Songs, Jacob Hardesty.
A Century of Using Secondary Education to Extend an American
Hegemony over Hawaii, Kalani Beyer. BOOK REVIEWS:Titus, J. O.,
Brown's Battleground: Students, Segregation, & the Struggle for
Justice in Prince Edward County, Virginia, Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 2011, 279 pp. Reviewed by Dionne Danns.
Horsford, S. D., Learning in a Burning House: Educational
Inequality, Ideology, and (Dis) integration. New York: Teachers
College Press. 2011, 129 pp. Reviewed by Melanie Adams. James, R.,
Jr., Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall,
and the Struggle to End Segregation. New York: Bloomsbury Press.
2010, 276 pp.Reviewed by Robert K. Poch. Burkholder, Z., Color in
the Classroom: How American Schools Taught Race, 1900-1954. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2011, 264 pp. Reviewed by Amy A.
Hunter and Matthew D. Davis. Rury, J. L. and S. A. Hill., The
African American Struggle for Secondary Schooling, 1940-1980:
Closing the Graduation Gap. New York: Teachers College Press, 2012,
261 pp. Reviewed by Claude Weathersby.Frankenberg E., and E. DeBay,
eds., Integrating Schools in a Changing Society: New Policies and
Legal Options for a Multiracial Generation. Chapel Hill, NC:
University of North Carolina Press. 368 pp. Reviewed by Joseph
Watras.
William Levi Dawson (1899-1990) overcame adversity and Jim Crow
racism to become a nationally recognized composer, choral arranger,
conductor, and professor of music. In William Levi Dawson: American
Music Educator, Mark Hugh Malone tells the fascinating tale of
Dawson's early life, quest for education, rise to success at the
Tuskegee Institute, achievement of national notoriety as a
composer, and retirement years spent conducting choirs throughout
the US and world. From his days as a student at Tuskegee in the
final years of Booker T. Washington's presidency, Dawson
continually pursued education in music, despite racial barriers to
college admission. Returning to Tuskegee later in life, he became
director of the School of Music. Under his direction, the Tuskegee
Choir achieved national recognition by singing at Radio City Music
Hall, presenting concerts for Presidents Herbert Hoover and
Franklin D. Roosevelt, and performing on nationwide radio and
television broadcasts. Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony, only the
second extended musical work to be written by an African American,
was premiered by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra
in both Philadelphia and New York City. Dawson's arrangements of
spirituals, the original folk music of African Americans enslaved
in America during the antebellum period, quickly became highly
sought-after choral works. This biographical account of Dawson's
life is narrated with a generous sprinkling of his personal
memories and photographs.
World in their Hands recounts the remarkable events that led to a
group of friends from south-west London staging the inaugural
Women's Rugby World Cup in 1991. The tournament was held just 13
years after teams from University College London and King's
contested a match that catalysed the growth of the women's game in
the UK, and the organisers overcame myriad obstacles before, during
and after the World Cup. Those challenges, which included ingrained
misogyny, motherhood, a recession, the Gulf War and the collapse of
the Soviet Union, provide a fitting framing device for a book that
celebrates female achievement in the face of adversity. Although
ostensibly a story about women's rugby, this is a tale that has
rare crossover appeal. It is not only the account of a group of
inspirational women who took on the institutional misogyny that
existed in rugby clubs across the globe to put on a first ever
Women's Rugby World Cup. It is also the compelling and relatable
tale of how those women, their peers and others in the generations
before them, reshaped the idea of what it means to be a woman,
finding acceptance and friendship on boggy rugby pitches. At the
time, with the men's game tying itself up in knots about
professionalism and apartheid, these women were a breath of fresh
air. Three decades on, their achievements deserve to be highlighted
to a wider audience.
Hard Rock is the best of British rock climbing. Featuring over
fifty crags and sixty-nine routes in England, Scotland and Wales,
it epitomises all that is great about traditional climbing in Great
Britain. Ken Wilson's first edition of Hard Rock was published in
1974 and quickly established itself as the definitive
representation of British rock climbing. Ken's vision for the
book's format - part guidebook, part literary celebration and part
coffee table visual showcase - is one that has been much copied but
never equalled. In this new edition, editor Ian Parnell has ensured
Hard Rock continues to honour Ken's original concept, in particular
keeping the route, not the climber, centre stage. While the
activity of climbing has undergone myriad changes since 1974 -
sticky rubber, camming devices, and the rise of sport climbing and
indoor climbing walls - many climbers are still drawn to the drama
and challenge of traditionally protected climbing. And this is why
Hard Rock is still as relevant now as it was in 1974. Stretching
across the Scottish Highlands and Islands, the Lake District, the
Pennines and the Peak District, North and South Wales and down to
South-West England, the routes tackle big mountain walls, gritstone
outcrops and epic sea cliff adventures. Focusing on the trad
connoisseur's grade range of VS to E2, with additional routes at E3
and E4, the featured climbs are within reach of a majority of
climbers. Timeless classics include The Bat on Ben Nevis, the Old
Man of Hoy, the Central Buttress of Scafell, Cenotaph Corner on
Dinas Cromlech in the Llanberis Pass, Vector at Tremadog, Right
Unconquerable at Stanage Edge and Suicide Wall at Bosigran on the
Cornish coast. Alongside many of the original essays, written by a
formidable cast of climbers including Pete Crew, Ed Drummond, Royal
Robbins, Chris Bonington, Hamish MacInnes and Al Alvarez, this new
edition features thirteen new routes and pieces by Eleanor Fuller,
Stephen Reid, Kevin Howett, David Pickford, Paul Harrison, John
Lawrence Holden, Martin Moran, Paul Donnithorne and Emma Alsford.
It is illustrated with all-new colour photography throughout. Hard
Rock's timeless collection is sure to inspire for generations to
come.
This book defines the concept of knowledge transformation,
describes the historical process of knowledge transformation, and
analyses its deep influence on education theory and practice by
virtue of multiple discipline resources. The general scope of this
book encompasses the philosophy of education, curriculum studies,
and education reform research. It enables readers to understand how
'hidden' epistemological factors have changed or reshaped the
education system throughout history and at present.Â
This book explores citizenship education and democracy in the
Netherlands. From the Second World War to the present day, debates
about civic education and democracy have raged in the country: this
book demonstrates how citizens, social movements and political
elites have articulated their own notions of democracy. Civic
education illustrates democracy as an essentially contested concept
- the transmission of political ideals highlights conflicting
democratic values and a problem of paternalism. Ultimately, who
dictates what democracy is, and to whom? As expectations of
citizens rise, they are viewed more and more as objects of a
pedagogical project, itself a controversial notion. Focusing on
what democracy means practically in society, this book will be of
interest to scholars of citizenship education and post-war Dutch
political history.
Bringing together scholars from the Italian and English-speaking worlds, this book reviews the history of the memory and representation of Fascism after 1945. Ranging in their study from patriotic monuments to sado-masochistic films, the essays ask how, why and when Mussolini's dictatorship mattered after the event and so provide a fascinating study of the relationship between a traumatic past and the changing present and future.
In Three Centuries of Girls' Education, Mary Anne O'Neil offers
both an examination and the first English translation of Les
Reglemens des religieuses Ursulines de la Congregation de Paris.
Published in 1705, Regulations is the first pedagogical system
explicitly designed for the education of girls. It is also one of
the few surviving documents describing the day-to-day operations of
early Ursuline schools. O'Neil traces the history of the document
from the writings of the Italian foundress of the Ursulines, to the
establishment of the religious order in Paris in 1612, to the
changes in the organization of Ursuline schools in
nineteenth-century France, and, finally, to Mother Marie de St.
Jean Martin's spirited defense of the traditional French Ursuline
method after World War II. In the eighteenth century, New Orleans
Ursulines used the Regulations as a guide to establish their
schools and teaching methods. Overall, O'Neil's history and
translation recover a vital source for historians of the early
modern era but will also interest scholars in the fields of
education history and female religious life.
A collection of iconic, unbelievable, and intimate stories from
baseball history that celebrate the enduring impact of the national
pastime. Baseball--rooted as it is in tradition and
nostalgia--lends itself to the retelling of its timeless tales. So
it is with the stories in Classic Baseball, a collection of
articles written by award-winning journalist John Rosengren and
originally published by Sports Illustrated, The New Yorker, Sports
on Earth, VICE Sports, and other magazines. These are stories about
the game's legends--Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, Josh Gibson, Bob
Feller, Frank Robinson, Sandy Koufax, Kirby Puckett--and its
lesser-knowns with extraordinary stories of their own. They cover
some of the game's most famous moments, like Hank Aaron hitting No.
715, and some you've never heard of, like the time the Ku Klux Klan
played a game against an all-Black team. Whether it be the story of
John Roseboro forgiving Juan Marichal for clubbing him in the head
with a bat, Elston Howard breaking down the Yankees' systemic
racism to integrate America's team, or the national pastime played
on snowshoes during July in a remote Wisconsin town, these are
stories meant to be read and read again for their poignancy, their
humor, and their celebration of baseball.
This book looks at the case study of Hachioji as a major transit
hub with a world-class public transportation system in Japan. It
tracks how Tokyo slowly expands into its suburban, rural or
sub-rural districts. It also wants to profile the multiple
identities of a city that is simultaneously an ecological asset, a
heritage locale in addition to a logistics hub. The volume is
probably the first of its kind to analyze the western sector of the
largest city in the world.
Tackling the intellectual histories of the first twenty women to
earn a PhD in philosophy in the United States, this book traces
their career development and influence on American intellectual
life. The case studies include Eliza Ritchie, Marietta Kies, Julia
Gulliver, Anna Alice Cutler, Eliza Sunderland, and many more.
Editor Dorothy Rogers looks at the factors that led these women to
pursue careers in academic philosophy, examines the ideas they
developed, and evaluates the impact they had on the academic and
social worlds they inhabited. Many of these women were active in
professional academic circles, published in academic journals, and
contributed to important philosophical discussions of the day: the
question of free will, the nature of God in relation to self, and
how to establish a just society. The most successful women earned
their degrees at women-friendly institutions, yet a handful of them
achieved professional distinction at institutions that refused to
recognize their achievements at the time; John Hopkins and Harvard
are notable examples. The women who did not develop careers in
academic philosophy often moved to careers in social welfare or
education. Thus, whilst looking at the academic success of some,
this book also examines the policies and practices that made it
difficult or impossible for others to succeed.
First Published in 1968. This is Volume I of a series of studies in
Economic and Social History series and looks at how the Corn Laws
regulated the internal trade, exportation and importation and
market development from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries.
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