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Looking at Textiles A Guide to Technical Terms
ISBN: PB: 9781606060803, Getty Publications, December 2011
112 pp., 23.2x15.8 cm, 78 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.
This is a concise yet detailed guide to the fundamental terms, materials, and techniques used to create textiles. Textiles have been made and used by every culture throughout history. However diverse – whether an Egyptian mummy wrapping, a Turkish ca...
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International Practices in Special Education Debates and Challenges
ISBN: HB: 9781563685095, Gallaudet University Press, December 2011
344 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 30 figures
Margret A. Winzer and Kas Mazurek combine two disciplines in this collection, comparative and international studies and special education, to explore the ways that diverse nations respond to persons who are exceptional. Their learned contributors als...
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History and Educational Policymaking
ISBN: PB: 9780300184174, Yale University Press, November 2011
354 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
In this book an eminent scholar and policymaker analyzes the lessons history can teach those who wish to reform the American educational system. Maris Vinovskis begins by tracing the evolving role of the federal government in educational research, pr...
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Opting Out Losing the Potential of America's Young Black Elite
ISBN: PB: 9780226040141, ISBN: HB: 9780226040134, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 8 line illus.
Why has the large income gap between blacks and whites persisted for decades after the passage of civil rights legislation? More specifically, why do African Americans remain substantially underrepresented in the highest-paying professions, such as s...
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People Who Spell The Last Students from the Mexican National School for the Deaf
ISBN: HB: 9781563685057, Gallaudet University Press, November 2011
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 photos
The Escuela Nacional para Sordomudos (ENS), translated as the Mexican National School for the Deaf, opened its doors in the 1860s as part of the republic s intention to educate its deaf people. The ENS did not use Lengua de Senas Mexicana (LSM), Mexi...
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£48,00
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For the Common Good Principles of American Academic Freedom
ISBN: PB: 9780300177527, ISBN: HB: 9780300143546, Yale University Press, October 2011
272 pp., 21x14 cm
Debates about academic freedom have become increasingly fierce and frequent. Legislative efforts to regulate American professors proliferate across the nation. Although most American scholars desire to protect academic freedom, they have only a vague...
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Courts and Kids Pursuing Educational Equity through the State Courts
ISBN: PB: 9780226706177, ISBN: HB: 9780226706191, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
208 pp., 23x15 cm
Over the past thirty-five years, federal courts have dramatically retreated from actively promoting school desegregation. In the meantime, state courts have taken up the mantle of promoting the vision of educational equity originally articulated in "...
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Tales of the Field On Writing Ethnography, Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226849645, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
232 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
For more than twenty years, John Van Maanen's "Tales of the Field" has been a definitive reference and guide for students, scholars, and practitioners of ethnography and beyond. Originally published in 1988, it was the one of the first works to detai...
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Chicago Handbook for Teachers (Second Edition) A Practical Guide to the College Classroom
ISBN: PB: 9780226075280, ISBN: HB: 9780226075273, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
224 pp., 25x15 cm
Those who teach college students have extensive training in their disciplines, but unlike their counterparts at the high school or elementary school level, they often have surprisingly little instruction in the craft of teaching itself".The Chicago H...
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Partners in Education Issues and Trends from the 21st International Congress on the Education of the Deaf
ISBN: HB: 9781563684951, Gallaudet University Press, June 2011
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, figures, tables
The 21st International Congress on the Education of the Deaf (ICED) witnessed revolutionary exchanges on the vital themes in education. Presenters addressed topics encompassing seven major strands: Educational Environments, Language and Literacy, Ear...
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