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Playing The Game - How State Colleges Used Athletics To Expand Educational Opportunity

by Marc A. Vanoverbeke

~~32,64€~~ 26,11€ 20% OFF

 Playing the Game uncovers the history of state and regional colleges as engines of opportunity in postwar America. By 1970, these institutions enrolled more students than elite private or flagship public universities did, and yet they remained on the margins of public attention and scholarly research. Marc A. VanOverbeke shows how these colleges fought for recognition by turning to an unlikely ally: college sports.Drawing on extensive archival research, VanOverbeke reveals how athletics boosted institutional legitimacy and public support, while students harnessed sports to push for greater inclusion and racial justice. Black and Mexican American students, in particular, challenged segregation and discrimination on and off the field, making athletics a powerful site of protest and change.Playing the Game reframes the role of college sports, showing how athletics helped shape not only school identity but also the national struggle for equality and educational opportunity.
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Disciplining Democracy - How The Modern American University Transformed Student Activism

by David S. Busch

~~218,63€~~ 174,90€ 20% OFF

 Disciplining Democracy reveals the political consequences for the triumph of "service learning" as the dominant pedagogical model of civic engagement in the modern American university. Volunteer-based civic engagement programs in higher education are popularly understood as curricular opportunities that enable young people to engage as citizens in campus and public life. But, as David S. Busch argues, these civic programs are also emblematic of a new political tradition in American higher education—a culture of "disciplining democracy"—that polices the boundaries of appropriate forms of citizenship both for the student and for the university itself.Looking at seven different universities across two political eras, Busch unearths a common institutional trend: that student activists'' demand for "action education" in the 1960s—a demand that many believed would reimagine the political role of the university—was reconstituted as university-sponsored volunteer programs by the 1980s. Disconnected from their political roots and visions, these programs became the source for the promotion of service learning as the primary model of the new civics in American higher education and an integral part of institutional strategies for responding to student activism. Embraced by universities big and small, private and public, the triumph of service learning as the new civics narrowed the political terrain of engaged citizenship and set limits on the modern American university''s mission. In excavating the genealogy of the new civics and its institutional legacy, Disciplining Democracy offers a new way to understand the university as a political actor in American life.
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Is For Arson - A History Of Vandalism In American Education

by Campbell F. Scribner

~~218,63€~~ 174,90€ 20% OFF

 In A Is for Arson, Campbell F. Scribner sifts through two centuries of debris to uncover the conditions that have prompted school vandalism and to explain why attempts at prevention have inevitably failed. Vandalism costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars every year, as students, parents, and even teachers wreak havoc on school buildings. Why do they do it? Can anything stop them? Who should pay for the damage? Underlying these questions are long-standing tensions between freedom and authority, and between wantonness and reason. Property destruction is not simply a moral failing, to be addressed with harsher punishments, nor can the problem be solved through more restrictive architecture or policing. Scribner argues that education itself is a source of intractable struggle, and that vandalism is often the result of an unruly humanity. To understand schooling in the United States, one must first confront the all-too-human emotions that have led to fires, broken windows, and graffiti.A Is for Arson captures those emotions through new historical evidence and diverse theoretical perspectives, helping readers understand vandalism variously as a form of political conflict, as self-education, and as sheer chaos. By analyzing physical artifacts as well as archival sources, Scribner offers new perspectives on children''s misbehavior and adults'' reactions and allows readers to see the complexities of education—the built environment of teaching and learning, evolving approaches to youth psychology and student discipline—through the eyes of its often resistant subjects.
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Education Myth - How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy

by Jon Shelton

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 The Education Myth questions the idea that education represents the best, if not the only, way for Americans to access economic opportunity. As Jon Shelton shows, linking education to economic well-being was not politically inevitable. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for instance, public education was championed as a way to help citizens learn how to participate in a democracy.
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The Education Myth - How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy

by Jon Shelton

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 The Education Myth questions the idea that education represents the best, if not the only, way for Americans to access economic opportunity. As Jon Shelton shows, linking education to economic well-being was not politically inevitable. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for instance, public education was championed as a way to help citizens learn how to participate in a democracy.
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Nothing Succeeds Like Failure - The Sad History Of American Business Schools

by Steven Conn

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 Do business schools actually make good on their promises of "innovative," "outside-the-box" thinking to train business leaders who will put society ahead of money-making? Do they help society by making better business leaders? No, they don't, Steven Conn asserts, and what's more they never have. In throwing down a gauntlet on the business of...
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The Instrumental University - Education In Service Of The National Agenda After World War Ii

by Ethan Schrum

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 In The Instrumental University, Ethan Schrum provides an illuminating genealogy of the educational environment in which administrators, professors, and students live and work today. After World War II, research universities in the United States underwent a profound mission change. The Instrumental University combines intellectual...
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Playing The Game - How State Colleges Used Athletics To Expand Educational Opportunity

by Marc A. Vanoverbeke

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The Limits Of Autobiography - Trauma And Testimony

by Leigh Gilmore

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A Is For Arson - A History Of Vandalism In American Education

by Campbell F. Scribner

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Suffrage Reconstructed - Gender, Race, And Voting Rights In The Civil War Era

by Laura E. Free

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Cluny And The Muslims Of La Garde-Freinet - Hagiography And The Problem Of Islam In Medieval Europe

by Scott G. Bruce

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Creating The Suburban School Advantage - Race, Localism, And Inequality In An American Metropolis

by John L. Rury

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Disciplining Democracy - How The Modern American University Transformed Student Activism

by David S. Busch

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Disciplining Democracy - How The Modern American University Transformed Student Activism

by David S. Busch

~~27,81€~~ 22,25€ 20% OFF

 Disciplining Democracy reveals the political consequences for the triumph of "service learning" as the dominant pedagogical model of civic engagement in the modern American university. Volunteer-based civic engagement programs in higher education are popularly understood as curricular opportunities that enable young people to engage as citizens in campus and public life. But, as David S. Busch argues, these civic programs are also emblematic of a new political tradition in American higher education—a culture of "disciplining democracy"—that polices the boundaries of appropriate forms of citizenship both for the student and for the university itself.Looking at seven different universities across two political eras, Busch unearths a common institutional trend: that student activists' demand for "action education" in the 1960s—a demand that many believed would reimagine the political role of the university—was reconstituted as university-sponsored volunteer programs by the 1980s. Disconnected from their political roots and visions, these programs became the source for the promotion of service learning as the primary model of the new civics in American higher education and an integral part of institutional strategies for responding to student activism. Embraced by universities big and small, private and public, the triumph of service learning as the new civics narrowed the political terrain of engaged citizenship and set limits on the modern American university's mission. In excavating the genealogy of the new civics and its institutional legacy, Disciplining Democracy offers a new way to understand the university as a political actor in American life.
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Dividing The Public - School Finance And The Creation Of Structural Inequity

by Matthew Gardner Kelly

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Dividing The Public - School Finance And The Creation Of Structural Inequity

by Matthew Gardner Kelly

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Tree By Tree - Saving North America'S Eastern Forests

by Scott J. Meiners

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I Love Bill And Other Stories

by Anyi Wang

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The Changing American Neighborhood - The Meaning Of Place In The Twenty-First Century

by Alan Mallach e Todd Swanstrom

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A Is For Arson - A History Of Vandalism In American Education

by Campbell F. Scribner

~~27,81€~~ 22,25€ 20% OFF

 In A Is for Arson, Campbell F. Scribner sifts through two centuries of debris to uncover the conditions that have prompted school vandalism and to explain why attempts at prevention have inevitably failed. Vandalism costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars every year, as students, parents, and even teachers wreak havoc on school buildings. Why do they do it? Can anything stop them? Who should pay for the damage? Underlying these questions are long-standing tensions between freedom and authority, and between wantonness and reason. Property destruction is not simply a moral failing, to be addressed with harsher punishments, nor can the problem be solved through more restrictive architecture or policing. Scribner argues that education itself is a source of intractable struggle, and that vandalism is often the result of an unruly humanity. To understand schooling in the United States, one must first confront the all-too-human emotions that have led to fires, broken windows, and graffiti.A Is for Arson captures those emotions through new historical evidence and diverse theoretical perspectives, helping readers understand vandalism variously as a form of political conflict, as self-education, and as sheer chaos. By analyzing physical artifacts as well as archival sources, Scribner offers new perspectives on children's misbehavior and adults' reactions and allows readers to see the complexities of education—the built environment of teaching and learning, evolving approaches to youth psychology and student discipline—through the eyes of its often resistant subjects.
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The Education Myth - How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy

by Jon Shelton

~~31,79€~~ 25,43€ 20% OFF

 The Education Myth questions the idea that education represents the best, if not the only, way for Americans to access economic opportunity. As Jon Shelton shows, linking education to economic well-being was not politically inevitable. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for instance, public education was championed as a way to help citizens learn how to participate in a democracy.
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Follow Your Conscience - Make A Difference In Your Life & In The Lives Of Others

by Sonnenberg Frank Sonnenberg

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Religion In A Handbasket - Israel The Church And The Pulpit

by Allen Bob Allen

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