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Education and Community in Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Kenneth King
April 01, 2027
Originally published in 1976, Education and Community in Africa provided a snapshot of the state of play of education and community in Africa. Though some of these chapters talked in general about Africa, several looked specifically at countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ethiopia and ...
Landmarks in International Adult Education: A Comparative Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander N. Charters, Ronald J. Hilton
April 01, 2027
Originally published in 1989, this book presents a comparative analysis of eight major programs in adult education in different countries of the world. These often pioneer programs ranged in size and domain from the Danish Folk High School to the Canadian Frontier College, and include other ...
Multi-Storey Living: The British Working-Class Experience
1st Edition
Edited
By Anthony Sutcliffe
April 01, 2027
For centuries the inhabitants of Britain lived in small houses. Originally published in 1974, this book tells the story of the invasion of the United Kingdom by that alien dwelling unit, the flat or apartment, and how apartment blocks spread themselves throughout the country to house, not only a ...
Power for the Poor: The Family Centre Project – An Experiment in Self-Help
1st Edition
By Michael Liffman
April 01, 2027
In 1972 the Melbourne welfare agency, the Brotherhood of St Laurence, wound up the social programme it had offered, with what it felt had been limited success, for the previous forty years, to launch a daring experiment. Aiming to help poor people lift themselves out of their poverty and regain ...
Sign & Symbol Communication for Mentally Handicapped People
1st Edition
By Philip R. Jones, Ailsa Cregan
April 01, 2027
When this title was originally published in 1986, a number of systems of communication had recently been developed for people with intellectual disabilities and varying degrees of language disability. These systems had diverse histories: some, such as Amerind, had ethnographic roots; Peabody Rebus ...
State and Society: The Emergence and Development of Social Hierarchy and Political Centralization
1st Edition
Edited
By John Gledhill, Barbara Bender, Mogens Trolle Larsen
April 01, 2027
Originally published in 1988, the traditional Eurocentric view of state formation and the rise of civilisations is vigorously challenged in this broad-ranging and innovative volume. By bringing archaeological research into contact with the work of ethno-historians and anthropologists, and by ...
Teachers' Voices for School Change: An Introduction to Educative Research
1st Edition
By Andrew Gitlin, K. Bringhurst, M. Burns, V. Cooley, B. Myers, K. Price, R. Russell, P. Tiess
April 01, 2027
Originally published in 1992, this book posed the question ‘who owns knowledge in education?’ The debate over theory and practice which had raged in education over the previous few years had increasingly placed the interests of education academics and those of teachers in schools in opposition. ...
William Tyndale: Collapse of a School – or a System?
1st Edition
By John Gretton, Mark Jackson
April 01, 2027
Originally published in 1976, it is not often that a primary school falls apart; Willliam Tyndale school in Islington did. Teachers were aligned against teachers, parents against parents, and managers against managers – and all against each other. The resulting inquiry lasted three months, heard ...
Writing, Schooling, and Deconstruction: From Voice to Text in the Classroom
1st Edition
By Pam Gilbert
April 01, 2027
Originally published in 1989, Pam Gilbert presents an intelligent and clear critique of popular assumptions about the teaching of writing and literature. In their stead she proposes alternative positions to reading and writing derived from post-structuralist theories of textuality. Drawing on her ...
Scotland: The Geomorphology of the British Isles
1st Edition
By J. B. Sissons
March 31, 2027
Originally published in 1976, this book discusses the surface form of Scotland, giving particular emphasis to the succession of changes through time. It begins by considering the important influence exerted by the varied geology on present relief features and the initiation of the drainage system ...
Heredity and Environment
1st Edition
Edited
By A H. Halsey
March 30, 2027
Originally published in 1977, the papers collected in this volume consider one of the most controversial issues in the human sciences: heredity versus environment. A.H. Halsey shows both pure geneticism and pure environmentalism to be over-simplified approaches to the explanation of human behaviour...
Samuel Butler: The Incarnate Bachelor
1st Edition
By Philip Henderson
March 30, 2027
Originally published in 1953, this comprehensive assessment of Samuel Butler was undertaken with the approval and co-operation of Butler’s trustees and incorporated much hitherto unpublished material. Family letters made available threw much fresh light on Butler’s relations with his father, who ...