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The history of African teacher training in Natal is one of the most
neglected and under-researched aspects of educational history. This
book attempts to set out the administrative history of this field
as a first step in stimulating the further research that is so
urgently needed. It provides an overview of how and why African
teachers were trained in the colony and province of Natal, starting
in 1846 with the arrival of the first missionaries and ending in
1964, ten years after the Bantu Education Act was passed. By
focusing on the past, the book also aims to provide a historical
lens through which modern educational problems can be viewed. The
quality of an education system, past or present, depends on its
teachers, and the most vital task of any education system is to
ensure that teachers are properly trained to do what they should
do: inspire and intellectually stimulate the young generation.
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James J Enright, Kalena J Kelly-Rossop, Emma L Williams
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Michigan has long been proud of its military service, but many of
its early accomplishments are unknown to most of the state's
residents. This book fills the void in our knowledge by bringing
together an impressive array of information on Michigan's armed
forces from 1775 to 1860. Here we find the name rank, unit, and
dates of service for all known Michigan men who served in the
Revolutionary War, Indian Wars, War of 1812, Black Hawk War, Toledo
War, Patriot War, and the Mexican-American War. Accompanying
histories explain the reasons behind the conflicts and include maps
showing all theaters of operations for Michigan troops. The
in-depth accounts of the state's role in these hostilities often
serve as the first serious and comprehensive studies of the
contributions made by its citizens in these events.
The book's many points of interest include its treatment of the
dramatic Revolutionary War period, when local Indians, British
garrisons at Detroit and Mackinac, and a few Michigan men, well
placed, held sway over most of the old Northwest. The book also
documents "foreigners" who fought for Michigan's cause, with a
disproportionate number of soldiers of French descent serving
during the War of 1812, and of Irish ancestry serving in the
Mexican-American War. Specific information on names of Native
American soldiers is not available, but their general roles as
combatants are noted. Ultimately, this book stands as a fitting
memorial to the many men who took up arms on behalf of
Michigan.
Booker T. Washington: The Architect of Progressive Education
unveils Washington's contributions to the development and history
of progressive education. It exposes the ignorance of his critics
and the distortions that have defined his legacy. The book places
Washington into the appropriate historical context, calling into
question the misinformation associated with this great American.
Says author Donald Generals Jr., "I believe it's an important story
that needs to be told to correct an historical injustice." Donald
Generals Jr. is a full-time college administrator. "I was born and
have lived my entire life in Paterson, New Jersey. Paterson is the
birthplace of American industrialism and was the first planned
industrial city." He is the vice president for academic affairs at
Mercer County Community College in West Windsor Township. New
Jersey. "I write out of a sense of duty to my profession and
personal joy." This book is an extension of his dissertation.
Booker T. Washington has not been adequately or fairly portrayed,
nor is he given an appropriate place in history. He is viewed as an
accommodationist. Critics have portrayed him historically as the
conservative compromiser, willing to appease whites at the expense
of African American rights and social development. Viewed as an
accommodator, he is pitted against W.E.B. Dubois, who is portrayed
as the key figure in the promotion and advancement of African
Americans. This negative image of Washington distorts his
historical significance as an African American leader and American
educator, and he has been ignored in the history of progressive
education. John Dewey orchestrated American pragmatism into an
experimentalist philosophy of problem-solving using the method of
intelligence and scientific inquiry. His ideas are foundational to
what is referred to as progressive education. Many philosophers and
educators have been appropriately recognized for their
contributions to the experimentalist transformation in education,
while others have been massively ignored. Foremost among those
ignored is Booker T. Washington. This book sets the record
straight. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/DonaldGeneralsJr
Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry traces the discovery and
development of drugs in Japan and the UK both historically and
sociologically. It includes sixteen case studies of major
pharmaceutical developments in the twentieth century, encompassing,
amongst others, beta-blockers, beta-stimulants, inhaled steroids
and histamine H2-antagonists. The book illustrates that the four
stages of drug development - namely compound, application,
organisational authorisation and market - are interactively shaped
by heterogeneous actors and institutions. The book also identifies
three different types of pharmaceutical development - paradigmatic
innovation, application innovation and modification-based
innovation, all with distinguishable features in the drug
development process. Finally, several historical, structural and
cultural factors influencing the shaping of medicines are revealed
by the comparison between British and Japanese drug innovation.
Addressing a number of practical implications for the promotion of
the pharmaceutical industry, this book will be of enormous interest
to students, researchers and academics specialising in science and
technology, and the management of technology and innovation.
Practitioners, managers, and policy planners within the
pharmaceutical industry will also deem this book invaluable.
La otra historia... pedagogia y discurso, escrito con la intencion
de contribuir a la promocion del PENSAMIENTO HISTORIOGRAFICO. A
principios de noviembre del 2000, se publico el libro El Teacher.
Ing. Salvador Herrera Tejeda. Inventor Queretano. Luego de su
primera presentacion, la Dra. Margaret Lubbers, entonces
Coordinadora de la Division de Investigacion y Posgrado de la
Facultad de Lenguas y Letras de la UAQ, me comento que la lectura
del libro la habia retado para rescatar del olvido a conocidos
suyos quienes, por su trayectoria, valia la pena dar a conocer y
reconocer. La lectura de La otra historia implica un reto: romper
la inercia del acaecer vertiginoso del presente para hacer un
espacio reflexivo para tiempos de creacion artistica o accion
solidaria. Cuestionar lo inmutable del tiempo sistematico para dar
entrada a tiempos alternativos: desde el tiempo del impulso vital,
al tiempo psicologico, hasta el tiempo de la espera de un futuro
incierto aunque sistematicamente proyectado. Asimismo, acceder a
otros espacios, mas alla del domiciliar o laboral. Integrando los
espacios de la herencia, la evolucion, el sensorio-motriz, el
subjetivante, el objetivante, el historico, el social, el etico, el
estetico, el espiritual, el virtual, el sideral... De tal manera
que el pensamiento historiografico: amplie nuestra experiencia del
espacio historico y el tiempo historico; derive del saber 'sabio'
(historico) de los filosofos y literatos a un saber que posibilite
la confrontacion de evidencias historicas y se asiente en
narraciones orales y escritas para deleite compartido y/o
transformacion de sistemas de razon; despierte la conciencia
historica que sea capaz de movilizar voluntades a favor de mejores
horizontes de vida personal y colectiva. Estaremos, entonces,
hablando de la otra historia que depende de nuestra intervencion y
que esta por narrarse.
This book explores tensions between critical social justice and
what the author terms white justice as fairness in public
commemoration of Minnesota's US-Dakota War of 1862. First, the book
examines a regional white public pedagogy demanding "objectivity"
and "balance" in teaching-and-learning activities with the purpose
of promoting fairness toward white settlers and the extermination
campaign they once carried out against Dakota people. The book then
explores the dilemmas this public pedagogy created for a group of
majority-white college students co-authoring a traveling museum
exhibit on the war during its 2012 sesquicentennial. Through close
analyses of interviews, field notes, and course artifacts, this
volume unpacks the racial politics that drive white justice as
fairness, revealing a myriad of ways this common sense of justice
resists critical social justice education, foremost by teaching
citizens to suspend moral judgment toward symbolic white ancestors
and their role in a history of genocide.
This book addresses the ways in which the figure of the
intellectuals and their relationship to the public has been
theorized through the conceptualizations of bureaucracy, democracy,
and communism as universal processes from the 19th century to the
present. Starting with Hegel and Marx, the author looks at the rise
of the figure of the universal intellectual in various forms,
before turning to what is presented as a transformation of the
figure of the intellectual into 'the public intellectual' advanced
by the New Philosophies and the critical response offered by Edward
Said. The study presents two comparative case studies: the Iranian
Revolution and the public intellectuals in Europe, specifically in
Norway, before concluding with a focus on the decay of the figure
of the intellectuals and highlighting Ranciere's critique of the
intellectual/masses distinction.
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