Edith wharton in france

From French scholar and author Claudine Lesage, comes Edith Wharton in France, an examination of Wharton’s years (1907-1937) in France. Lesage, with her innate knowledge of French culture, uses previously unknown or untranslated sources to provide a unique look into French society and Wharton’s p...

Editors on editing

An indispensable guide for editors, would-be editors, and especially writers who want to understand the publishing process. In this classic handbook, top professionals write about the special demands and skills necessary for particular areas of expertise--mass market, romance, special markets, an...

Edo kabuki in transition

Satoko Shimazaki revisits three centuries of kabuki theater and its representations of medieval Japanese tales and tradition, reframing Edo kabuki as a key player in the formation of an early modern urban identity. Challenging the common understanding of kabuki as subversive, Shimazaki argues tha...

Edo-punk!

Educated guesses

A copublication with the Milbank Memorial FundPrevention is the best cure—or is it? As medical experts hammer home the importance of annual medical checkups and routine screening for everything from high blood pressure to cancer, Americans have come to believe that frequent screening tests are e...

Educating a working society

Educating a Working Society explores the history of career and technical education (CTE) in the 20th century, examining efforts to link schooling and work. It covers topics like vocational program controversies, racism in philanthropic giving, and trends in college and career readiness.

Educating about/for food security through environmental education

Addressing food insecurity requires new approaches to enhance sustainable food systems. Education plays a key role in broadening understanding and fostering action toward just food systems. Alishia Valeri's book explores tackling food insecurity in Canada through educational efforts.

Educating egypt

The everyday practices, policy ideas, and ideological and political battles that have shaped Egyptian education, from the era of nation-building in the twentieth century to the age of digital disruption in the twenty-first  From the 1952 revolution onward, a main purpose of formal education in Eg...

Educating for ethical survival

In this volume experienced educators discuss the task of teaching ethics to professionals, managers and others who are practically-minded; and expert contributors explore the nature of ethical survival in contemporary society and the range of organizations it encompasses.

Educating for impact

Educating for Impact explores how entrepreneurship education fosters economic growth and innovation worldwide. With case studies and research, authors bridge theory and practice, offering readers valuable strategies to develop economic growth.

Educating for insurgency

Education for Rebellion. A manifesto for today's broken schools.

Educating harlem

Educating Harlem brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to consider of the history of schooling in perhaps the nation’s most iconic black community. The volume traces the varied ways that Harlem residents defined and pursued educational justice for their children and community desp...

Educating in ethics across the professions

This book provides a comprehensive discussion on teaching ethics across various professions. It covers historical and contemporary challenges, evolving research, theory and practice and offers future considerations for ethics educators. The volume concludes with professional perspectives and an a...

Educating students with refugee and asylum seeker experiences

This book examines the educational systems into which students with refugee backgrounds are placed when relocated into their new homelands. The authors propose ways in which these students can be educated with policies and perspectives that respect diversity, using a primary school in Australia d...

Educating teachers and tomorrow's students through service-learning pedagogy

This book explores service-learning in teacher education, highlighting its benefits and complexities. It includes an interview with Andy Furco, a leader in the field, and offers historical insights and future guidance. Themes include self-efficacy, community connections, diversity, and program de...

Educating tomorrow

The post-pandemic world provides all of us with the opportunity to think differently about what we want for society. In Educating Tomorrow, Chris Brown and Ruth Luzmore explore what a post-Covid ‘blank slate’ education system could look like.

Educating young children with and without exceptionalities

This book emphasizes the importance of developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) in early childhood education (ECE). It highlights the need for interdisciplinary collaboration, intensive intervention and remedial education. Effective practices include relationship-based teaching, family partner...

Educating young people for a sustainable future

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Focusing on issues affecting young people in educational contexts using an inclusivity lens, chapters delve into causes, consequences & proposed interventions of inequal...

Education

This book calls for a new global approach to education to enrich and enhance the lives of children everywhere. Contributors emphasize the centrality of education to social and environmental justice, as well as the philosophical foundations of education. The book features a foreword by Pope Francis.

Education and capitalism

In this collection teachers from across the country unravel the lies spun about public education by corporate board room reformers.”

Education and development in afghanistan

After years of military interventions, the current situation in Afghanistan is highly ambivalent and partially contradictory – especially regarding the interplay of development, peace, security, education, and economy. Despite numerous initiatives, Afghanistan is still confronted with a poor secu...

Education and sustainable development in the context of crises

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online Examining the relationship between education and international sustainable development, this book explores how education can adapt, respond, and contribute to positive change in the face of crises.

Education and the family

Chapters cover a wide array of topics, such as: family emotional support for students, family stressors and education, gendered nature of parental support, cultural variation in parental engagement and involvement, among others.

Education and the family

Chapters cover topics such as: family economic and cultural resources and school performance and attainment of students, family multilingualism and academic success, family stressors and education, valuation of higher education versus employment and family contestations of public schooling and it...

Education and youth today

This volume brings together the most recent and cutting edge research on the understanding of education. It focuses on the lived experience of the students in the context of different educational institutions. In doing so, it unravels layers of inequalities in the understanding of education.

Education at war

Education at War attempts to shape educational research and practice to more explicitly consider the relationship between education, capitalism and war, and more specifically, its’ impact on students of color.

Education for a civil society: teaching young children to gain five democratic life skills, second edition

Learning to Work Cooperatively and Respectfully with Others  Democratic life skills are skills that enable all of us—children and adults alike—to be caring, thoughtful members of families, schools, communities, and societies. But these emotional and social skills don’t just happen. Teachers and f...

Education for empire

Education for Empire brings together topics in American history often treated separately: schools, race, immigration, and empire building. During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, American imperial ambitions abroad expanded as the country's public school system grew. How did this imperialism a...

Education for refugees and forced (im)migrants across time and context

Education for Refugees and Forced (Im)Migrants Across Time and Context follows the journey of refugee and forced (im)migrant youths as their educational needs and opportunities vary according to resettlement communities’ immigration policies, dominant culture and language, geography, and other ke...

Education in america

Education in America provides an essential, comprehensive introduction to education in the U.S., from its origins to its contemporary manifestations. Focusing on social inequality, Kimberly A. Goyette calls into question Horace Mann’s famous proclamation that education is the “great equalizer” a...

Education policy

What has been done to achieve fairer and more efficient education systems, and what more can be done in the future? Stephen Gorard provides a comprehensive examination of crucial policy areas for education, such as differential outcomes, the poverty gradient, and the allocation of resources to ed...

Education policy as a roadmap for achieving the sustainable development goals

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been agreed globally in an unprecedented ambitious and innovative agenda for prosperity and peace for people and planet. This book provides a roadmap for achieving the paradigm shift to achieve the SGDs from an Educational perspective.

Education workforce well-being

Corbett widens the discussion on well-being in the education workforce, drawing not only on education but also human resource management and leadership research and providing a critical analysis that highlights not only the challenges but research-informed recommendations for managers, leaders an...

Education, immigration and migration

Education, Immigration and Migration identifies issues educational leaders face and better understand their current strategies for immigration policies, school improvement, and classroom strategies.

Education, land, and location

Because most children throughout the world attend elementary and secondary schools near their homes, where they live usually determines where they go to school. In the United States, the relationship between residential location and education has been especially strong given the dominance of loca...

Education, migration and family relations between china and the uk

This book provides a fresh perspective on the understanding of transnational families by examining the one-child generation of Chinese migrants who came to the UK to study, and their parents, who remain in China.

Education, race, and social change in south africa

Education, retirement and career transitions for 'black' ex-professional footballers

Drawing on a combination of interviews and auto-ethnographic data, Education, Retirement and Career Transitions for 'Black' Ex-Professional Footballers provides a case-study of 16 'black' British male professional footballers' preparedness and experiences of retirement and transition from careers...

Education, work and family events in women’s lives

This book investigates how educational expansion, the trend toward the service society, and the German unification affect East and West German women’s life courses and family lives. The findings suggest that women’s entry into motherhood during full-time education is highly dependent on their age...

Educational delusions?

The first major battle over school choice came out of struggles over equalizing and integrating schools in the civil rights era, when it became apparent that choice could be either a serious barrier or a significant tool for reaching these goals. The second large and continuing movement for choi...

Educational embodiments

Educational Embodiments: Life Writing the Body focuses on life writing that centers body politics and embodiment in educational spaces.