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Education

These Kids Identity, Agency, and Social Justice at a Last Chance High School

Nygreen Kysa

ISBN: PB: 9780226031569, ISBN: HB: 9780226031422, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
208 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 figure, 6 tables

Few would deny that getting ahead is a legitimate goal of learning, but the phrase implies a cruel hierarchy: a student does not simply get ahead, but gets ahead of others. In "These Kids", Kysa Nygreen turns a critical eye on this paradox. Offering...

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Literary Criticism

Education

Promiscuous "Portnoy's Complaint" and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness

Avishai Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9780300192414, ISBN: HB: 9780300151909, Yale University Press, April 2013
240 pp., 21x14 cm

The publication of "Portnoy's Complaint" in 1969 provoked instant, powerful reactions. It blasted Philip Roth into international fame, subjected him to unrelenting personal scrutiny and conjecture, and shocked legions of readers – some delighted, oth...

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Education

Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities Who Wins and Who Loses When Schools Become Urban Amenities

Bloomfield Cucchiara Maia

ISBN: PB: 9780226016825, ISBN: HB: 9780226016658, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 maps, 2 figures, 9 tables

Discuss real estate with any young family and the subject of schools is certain to come up – in fact, it will likely be a crucial factor in determining where that family lives. Not merely institutions of learning, schools have increasingly become a s...

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Education

Service Learning in Interpreter Education Strategies for Extending Student Involvement in the Deaf Community

Shaw Sherry

ISBN: HB: 9781563685552, Gallaudet University Press, April 2013
258 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 tables, 3 figures

Institutions of higher learning around the nation have embraced the concept of student civic engagement as part of their curricula, a movement that has spurred administrators in various fields to initiate programs as part of their disciplines. In res...

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Education

Gendered Paradoxes Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith, and Progress

Adely Fida

ISBN: PB: 9780226006918, ISBN: HB: 9780226006901, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm

In 2005 the World Bank released a gender assessment of the nation of Jordan, a country that, like many in the Middle East, has undergone dramatic social and gender transformations, in part by encouraging equal access to education for men and women. T...

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Education

Political Science

Education, Justice, and Democracy

Allen Danielle S., Reich Rob

ISBN: PB: 9780226012766, ISBN: HB: 9780226012629, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 line illus.

Education is a contested topic, and not just politically. For years scholars have approached it from two different points of view: one empirical, focused on explanations for student and school success and failure, and the other philosophical, focused...

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Education

American Studies in Dialogue Radical Reconstructions between Curriculum and Cultural Critique

Oppermann Matthias

ISBN: PB: 9783593393179, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2013
300 pp., 21.3x14 cm

American studies has changed drastically over the past few decades, as a new wave of scholars – armed with groundbreaking ideas and more extensive methods of research – flocked to the relatively young field. This focus on scholarship, though necessar...

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Education

Experiencing Education: 1896-2012 Second Edition

Harms William

ISBN: PB: 9781467530590, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
181 pp., 25x17.8 cm, throughout illus.

The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools were founded in 1896 by John Dewey as a way to apply and test his groundbreaking theories of education. Now, more than a century later, Dewey's approach to education is emulated the world over, and the Lab...

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Education

Lives in Science How Institutions Affect Academic Careers

Hermanowicz Joseph C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226005645, ISBN: HB: 9780226327617, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 tables, 1 line illus.

hat can we learn when we follow people over the years and across the course of their professional lives? Joseph C. Hermanowicz asks this question specifically about scientists and answers it here by tracking fifty-five physicists through different st...

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Education

Disabling Pedagogy Power, Politics, and Deaf Education

Komesaroff Linda

ISBN: PB: 9781563685866, Gallaudet University Press, February 2013
154 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Traditionally, deaf education has been treated as the domain of special educators who strive to overcome the difficulties associated with hearing loss. Recently, the sociocultural view of deafness has prompted research and academic study of Deaf cult...

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