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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
A volume in Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies
Series Editors Bradley A. U. Levinson, and Margaret Sutton, Indiana
University This book on bilingual education policy represents a
multidimensional and longitudinal study of "policy processes" as
they play out on the ground (a single school in Los Angeles), and
over time (both within the same school, and also within the state
of Georgia). In order to reconstruct this complex policy process,
Anderson impressively marshals a great variety of forms of
"discourse." Most of this discourse, of course, comes from
overheard discussions and spontaneous interviews conducted at a
particular school-the voices of teachers and administrators. Such
discourse forms the heart of her ethnographic findings. Yet
Anderson also brings an ethnographer's eye to national and regional
debates as they are conducted and represented in different forms of
media, especially newspapers and magazines. She then uses the key
theoretical concept of "articulation" to conceptually link these
media representations with local school discourse. The result is an
illuminating account of how everyday debates at a particular school
and media debates occurring more broadly mutually inform one
another. Reviews: Anderson's timely, methodologically
sophisticated, and compelling account surrounding the politics of
bilingual education moves beyond instrumental notions of policy to
advance the idea that mandates are themselves resources that may be
vigorously contested as contending parties vie for inclusion in the
schooling process. Her work artfully demonstrates how improving
schooling for all children is inseparable from a larger,
much-needed discussion of what we as a polity believe about whether
and how we are interconnected, together with who should and does
have a voice in the policy making and implementation process.
-Angela Valenzuela, Professor, University of Texas at Austin,
author of Subtractive Schooling and Leaving Children Behind
Anderson shows the gap between clear-cut assumptions and ideologies
informing education policy and legislation on language and
immigration, and the complications that arise for teachers when
they actually implement language legislation in the classroom. She
also illustrates assumptions about language and being American, as
these are both debated and shared by each "side" of the language
and immigration debates in California and Georgia. Her chapter on
California's Proposition 227 is a particular eye-opener,
demonstrating in detail the embedding of local identities and
oppositions in these debates. Above all, she makes quite clear the
complex, often contradictory, web of relations among politics,
language, race, and cultural citizenship. --Bonnie Urciuoli,
Professor, Hamilton College, author of Exposing Prejudice
A volume in Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies
Series Editors Bradley A. U. Levinson, and Margaret Sutton, Indiana
University Sally Anderson's book on sport, cultural policy, and
""civil sociality"" in Denmark has been a long time in coming, but
it's well worth the wait. Based on many years of familiarity with
Danish society, and countless hours of intensive fieldwork, Dr.
Anderson provides us with a unique anthropological perspective on
the process by which state cultural policy actively engages civil
society in a quest to shape social relations in the public sphere.
The particular domain of policy and social activity is nonschool,
voluntary sport, in its various forms. By definition, of course,
such activity takes place outside the regular Danish school
curriculum, but it is not for this reason any less ""educational.""
Indeed, although it is very broadly attended and institutionalized,
perhaps because Danish after-school sport is not compulsory, it is
all the more compelling for children and youth, and therefore more
powerful in certain ways. Indeed, Dr.Anderson has a signal talent
for showing us how afterschool sport in Denmark both transmits and
produces social knowledge, and powerfully shapes social relations.
A volume in Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies
Series Editors Bradley A. U. Levinson, and Margaret Sutton, Indiana
University This book explores the diversity of American roles in
education for democracy cross-culturally, both within the United
States and around the world. Cross-cultural engagement in education
for democracy inevitably bears the impressions of each culture
involved and the dynamics among them. Even high-priority,
well-funded U.S. government programs are neither monolithic nor
deterministic in their own right, but are rather reshaped, adapted
to their contexts, and appropriated by their partners. These
partners are sometimes called ""recipients"", a problematic label
that gives the misleading impression that partners are relatively
passive in the overall process. The authors pay close attention to
the cultures, contexts, structures, people, and processes involved
in education for democracy. Woven throughout this volume's
qualitative studies are the notions that contacts between powers
and cultures are complex and situated, that agency matters, and
that local meanings play a critical role in the dynamic exchange of
peoples and ideas.The authors span an array of fields that concern
themselves with understanding languages, cultures, institutions,
and the broad horizon of the past that shapes the present: history,
anthropology, literacy studies, policy analysis, political science,
and journalism. This collection provides a rich sampling of the
diverse contexts and ways in which American ideas, practices, and
policies of education for democracy are spread, encountered,
appropriated, rejected, or embraced around the world. This volume
introduces concepts, identifies processes, notes obstacles and
challenges, and reveals common themes that can help us to
understand American influence on education for democracy more
clearly, wherever it occurs.
This volume brings together scholars working the relatively new
terrain of ethnographic policy studies to debate and provisionally
chart the methodological and theoretical parameters of such a
project. The opening section on "theory" will survey the conceptual
antecedents of qualitative policy studies, citing the relevant
literature and laying out an agenda for research. The section on
"methods" will consist of accounts of innovative field experiences
and analytic approaches that can illuminate the new field. The
final section on "experiences" will extend the reflections in the
methods section with concrete case studies.
A volume in Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies
Series Editors Bradley A. U. Levinson, and Margaret Sutton, Indiana
University Hopes in Friction offers a vivid portrait of life and
the implementation of Universal Primary Education in Eastern
Uganda, based on longterm fieldwork following a group of children
as they grow up. The book considers how the actions and hopes of
these children and families, to attain what they perceive as 'a
good life', are crosscut by political aspirations and projects of
schooling and health education.When hopes are in friction
inspiration as well as disappointment occur. Policy makers in
Uganda and in international organisations expect health
improvements as one of the bonuses of education programs. Families
in Eastern Uganda also hope for and experience health - in the
local sense of a good life - as part of schooling. Lotte Meinert
explores the taken for granted effect of schooling on health and
focuses a careful eye on how boys and girls appropriate and
negotiate ideas and moralities about health in the context of what
is possible ethically, materially and experientially. Endorsement:
Hope in Friction gives us first-hand insight into the aspirations
and ideals of Ugandan schoolchildren. Meinert shows us how local
communities shape and reshape health education policies. Like two
sticks rubbed together, top-down programs and bottom-up perceptions
of wellbeing grate to produce sparks of hope. This work makes an
important contribution to a growing literature on schooling in
contemporary Africa. [Amy Stambach, author of Lessons from Mount
Kilimanjaro: Schooling, Community, and Gender in east Africa] Amy
Stambach, University of Wisconsin-Madison What do we learn when we
go to school? Among other things, Lotte Meinert reminds us,
children learn the bodily techniques of a hierarchical modernity:
standing in lines, singing during parades, bending to be caned,
sitting at desks. Within this frame, formal abstractions about
health care in the eastern Ugandan primary school curriculum are
not translated into domestic practice. Yet this lively and
insightful book holds further surprises. School children do use
their education-for example, to mediate for their parents with
disrespectful health professionals. Hopes in Friction exemplifies
the power of the anthropological gaze to move us outside the narrow
confines of educational policy debates, allowing us to re-examine
both the dead-ends and promises of schooling. Anna Tsing,
University of California, Santa Cruz.
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The Strange Likeness (Paperback)
Margaret Sutton; Kate Duvall, Beverly Hatfield; Illustrated by Marjorie Eckstein
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R505
Discovery Miles 5 050
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Back after 45 years, Margaret Sutton's young detective, Judy
Bolton, returns for her 39th mystery adventure. At the end of book
#38, The Secret of the Sand Castle, the author gave
the title of the next book in the series, The Strange Likeness.
However, the series was canceled, and the promised book was not
written...until now.
Beloved author Margaret Sutton (1903-2001) published her first Judy
Bolton mysteries in 1932. The original series continued until 1967,
making it the longest-lasting juvenile series
written by a single author. The books are noted not only for their
engaging plots and thrilling stories, but also for their realism
and social commentary. To many young girls Judy was an ideal role
model--smart, capable, courageous, nurturing, and always unwavering
in her core beliefs.
Based on conversations with Margaret Sutton and her family, plus
extensive research, coauthors Kate Duvall and Beverly Hatfield
recreate the magic of Judy and her friends, who find
themselves pursuing a criminal who resembles Judy's husband.
Courage and keen observation are Judy's trademarks, and they prove
her up to the task once again.
""Don't look for it "" The voice startles Judy and Honey as it
seems to come out of nowhere. The girls search the area but cannot
discover the source of the voice. The strange voice is the first in
a series of events drawing Judy into her latest mystery. Judy takes
in Helen Riker and her children Penny and Paul as boarders at her
home in Dry Brook Hollow. Penny speaks of a green doll but is
scolded by her brother. What Judy does hear leads her to believe
that some men stole some type of green doll from Mrs. Riker and
that it has something to do with their Uncle Paul Riker. Judy and
Horace go with the Rikers to visit Uncle Paul, but he has
disappeared, his house has burned to the ground, and his entire
collection of jade has been stolen. Judy has quite a mystery to
solve. She must find the thieves and Uncle Paul and help Mrs. Riker
through a difficult time.
No sooner do Judy and her FBI husband Peter Dobbs arrive in
Washington, D.C., than Judy is knee-deep in mystery and suspense.
It all begins quite innocently-the old Senate Office Building is
being plagued by mice, and Judy's beloved cat Blackberry, rejected
at the motel where she and Peter are staying, is elected official
mousecatcher. There is only one problem-Blackberry has disappeared.
Who let Blackberry out of the motel room and why? The owner,
paralyzed by fear, refuses to talk-that is, until his own daughter
vanishes-then he readily agrees to cooperate with the FBI and a
Senate Committee investigating organized crime. But there is more
involved in this labyrinth of intrigue than even Judy suspects. As
she tours the Capitol building, she overhears a strange whisper
which only can mean one thing-more danger! The life of a prominent
Senator has been threatened, and Judy is suddenly faced with a
great challenge to her cherished ideals of freedom and democracy.
As the intricate pattern of the situation begins to emerge, Judy
finally finds a solution both to her own dilemma and to a far
larger and more perplexing situation.
""What do you mean?"" Judy asks her new friend, Clarissa Valentine.
""How could you look in a mirror and not see your reflection?""
When Clarissa insists that this strange thing has happened to her,
Judy and the other girls think she is teasing them. But when
Clarissa disappears in the middle of a television show, even Judy
has to admit something peculiar is going on. The three other girls
are angry, because with Clarissa went the twenty dollars they had
loaned her. But Judy still believes in Clarissa, though something
certainly is very wrong. Judy wishes her FBI husband, Peter Dobbs,
would complete his mysterious mission and join her in New York
City. She wants him to help her find the young girl, who might be
in real danger. What Judy does not know is that Peter himself is in
danger. The next time she sees him, he is lying injured in a
hospital bed. But by a weird combination of circumstance, what
happens to Peter gives Judy her first clue to what might have
happened to Clarissa. When Judy, with Peter's help, finally learns
what really did happen, she uncovers a mystery far more exciting
than she could possibly have imagined.
When the FBI suddenly orders Judy's husband Peter to Washington,
D.C. on a bank robbery case, the young couple is just about to
start off on a trip. To cheer herself up after Peter's plane
departs, Judy buys a corsage of snapdragons. Judy is wearing the
corsage when she and Peter's sister, Honey Dobbs, decide to drive
to New York City and spend a few days with Irene and Dale Meredith.
On the way, the two girls nearly have a fatal accident. A handsome
young stranger comes to their rescue and introduces himself as Mr.
Nogard. What Mr. Nogard says when he sees Judy's corsage, and the
mysterious package he gives her, lead to an exciting cross-country
ride for Judy and Honey. In the heart of Yellowstone Park, at the
Dragon's Mouth, Judy finds a vital clue to Peter's bank robbery
case and at the same time places herself in great danger. How one
word on a postcard alerts Peter to her predicament winds up a
hair-raising mystery-adventure for Judy.
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