The campus color line

"A stunning and ambitious origins story."—Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award–winning and #1 New York Times–bestselling authorThe remarkable history of how college presidents shaped the struggle for racial equalitySome of America’s most pressing civil rights issues—desegregation, equal educationa...

The emergence of teacher education in zambia

This book offers a detailed history of the development of teacher education in Zambia. Also analysed is the nature of education offered at different times and how the teacher and his/her education reflect this, arguing the need for a fundamentally new philosophy of education and a mode of teacher...

The limits of reform in the enlightenment

The peripatetic journey of teacher preparation in canada

This book situates teacher training, preparation and education in Canada within national and global histories. The authors lead the reader through an exploration of the objectives of schooling, the contextual role of teachers, and the political undercurrents sustaining various educational concept...

The rise of the human digital brain

Rapid advances in technology are changing how we learn and think. Today's youth process information differently, creating confusion in traditional educational settings. This book discusses the history of education, technology's impact, and the need for new models to support 21st-century learners.

Too hot to handle

The first comprehensive history of sex education around the worldToo Hot to Handle is the first truly international history of sex education. As Jonathan Zimmerman shows, the controversial subject began in the West and spread steadily around the world over the past century. As people crossed bord...

Warriors of the cloisters

How science in medieval Europe originated in Buddhist AsiaWarriors of the Cloisters tells how key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West. Medieval scholars rarely performed scientific experiments, but instead conte...

When confucius "encounters" john dewey

The book explores John Dewey's visit to China and its intercultural impact during the May Fourth/New Culture Movement. It studies four Chinese scholars who synthesized Confucian traditions and Deweyan ideas, highlighting the evolution of education through cultural pluralism and intercultural comm...

Wisdom's workshop

An essential history of the modern research universityWhen universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite re...