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History of Art

Education

Teaching in the Art Museum Interpretation as Experience

Burnham Rika, Kai-Kee Elliott

ISBN: PB: 9781606060582, Getty Publications, April 2011
136 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 7 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.

This title offers an insightful exploration of the mission, history, theory, practice and future of museum education. At the heart of all good art museum teaching is an effort to bring people and artworks together in meaningful ways. But what constit...

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Education

Classrooms All Young Children Need Lessons in Teaching from Vivian Paley

Cooper Patricia M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226115245, ISBN: HB: 9780226115238, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
248 pp., 21.6x14.2 cm

Teacher and author Vivian Paley is highly regarded by parents, educators, and other professionals for her original insights into such seemingly everyday issues as play, story, gender, and how young children think. In "The Classrooms All Young Childre...

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Education

Wannabe U Inside the Corporate University

Tuchman Gaye

ISBN: PB: 9780226815305, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
272 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Based on years of observation at a large state university, "Wannabe U" tracks the dispiriting consequences of trading in traditional educational values for loyalty to the market. Aping their boardroom idols, the new corporate administrators at such u...

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Philosophy

Exploring the Scientific Method Cases and Questions

Gimbel Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226294834, ISBN: HB: 9780226294810, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
424 pp., 22.4x15.2 cm, 4 tables

From their grade school classrooms forward, students of science are encouraged to memorize and adhere to the "scientific method" – a model of inquiry consisting of five to seven neatly laid-out steps, often in the form of a flowchart. But walk into t...

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Education

Governing Educational Desire Culture, Politics, and Schooling in China

Kipnis Andrew B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226437552, ISBN: HB: 9780226437538, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
224 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 16 halftones

Parents in China greatly value higher education for their children, but the intensity and effects of their desire to achieve this goal have largely gone unexamined – until now".Governing Educational Desire" explores the cultural, political, and econo...

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Education

Learning in Depth A Simple Innovation That Can Transform Schooling

Egan Kieran

ISBN: HB: 9780226190433, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
232 pp., 21.8x14.5 cm

For generations, schools have aimed to introduce students to a broad range of topics through curriculum that ensure that they will at least have some acquaintance with most areas of human knowledge by the time they graduate. Yet such broad knowledge...

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Education

Far Away from the Tigers A Year in the Classroom with Internationally Adopted Children

Katch Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780226425788, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
176 pp., 22.1x15.2 cm

Over the past three decades, more than a quarter of a million children have become citizens of the United States through international adoption. Kindergarten teacher Jane Katch recently found herself with three such children in her class: Katya, born...

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Education

Classical Foundations of Islamic Educational Thought A Compendium of Parallel English-Arabic Texts

Cook Bradley J., Malkawi Fathi H.

ISBN: HB: 9780842527637, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2011
545 pp., 23.4x16 cm

Education has always been an important pursuit in Islam. The Prophet Muhammad enjoined his followers to "seek knowledge, even unto China". Within the religion, educational theory and practice were founded on the work of itinerant teachers who taught...

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Literary Criticism

Education

Conversations with John L'Heureux

Karagueuzian Dikran

ISBN: PB: 9781575866000, ISBN: HB: 9781575866017, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2011
200 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

This book presents a sequence of interviews between Dikran Karagueuzian and prolific fiction writer John L'Heureux that investigate the nature of writing fiction and the writer's need to write. This conversation includes a discussion of contemporary...

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Sign Language

Education

Accountability-Based Reforms The Impact on Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students

Cawthon Stephanie W.

ISBN: HB: 9781563684852, Gallaudet University Press, February 2011
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, tables, figures

For years, school reform efforts targeted either students in regular education or those with special needs, but not both. As a result of the No Child Left Behind legislation (NCLB) and its focus on accountability, administrators established policies...

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