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“susan imel”

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  • No Small Lives

    Handbook of North American Early Women Adult Educators, 1925-1950

    Edited by Susan Imel, Gretchen T. Bersch ...
    No Small Lives: Handbook of North American Early Women Adult Educators, 1925-1950 contains the stories of 26 North American women who were active in the field of adult education sometime between the years of 1925 and 1950. Generally, women’s contributions have been omitted from the field’s histories. No Small Lives is designed to address this gap and restore women to their rightful place in the ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

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  • Fugitive Pedagogy

    Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching

    by Jarvis R. Givens ...
    A fresh portrayal of one of the architects of the African American intellectual tradition, whose faith in the subversive power of education will inspire teachers and learners today.“As departments…scramble to decolonize their curriculum, Givens illuminates a longstanding counter-canon in predominantly black schools and colleges.”—Boston Review“Informative and inspiring…An homage to the achievement ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

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  • Woman

    The American History of an Idea

    by Lillian Faderman ...
    A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century"An intelligently provocative, vital reading experience. . . . This highly readable, inclusive, and deeply researched book will appeal to scholars of women and gender studies as well as anyone seeking to understand the historical patterns that misogyny has etched across every era ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shortchanged

    How Advanced Placement Cheats Students

    by Annie Abrams ...
    "Shortchanged is a brilliant book."—The Washington Post Author and high school English teacher Annie Abrams reveals how the College Board's emphasis on standardized testing has led the AP program astray.Every year, millions of students take Advanced Placement (AP) exams hoping to score enough points to earn college credit and save on their tuition bill. But are they getting a real college ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Amateur Hour

    A History of College Teaching in America

    by Jonathan Zimmerman ...
    The first full-length history of college teaching in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present, this book sheds new light on the ongoing tension between the modern scholarly ideal—scientific, objective, and dispassionate—and the inevitably subjective nature of day-to-day instruction.American college teaching is in crisis, or so we are told. But we've heard that complaint for the ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Politics of Women's Studies

    Testimony from 30 Founding Mothers

    Edited by Florence Howe ...
    The true stories of those bold women who espoused feminism in the world of academia and forever changed our educational system and culture.In the patriarchal halls of 1970s academe, women who spoke their minds risked their careers. Yet intrepid women—students, faculty, administrators, members of the community—persisted in collaborating on women's studies programs. In doing so, they created a ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Educating Harlem

    A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community

    Edited by Ansley T. Erickson, Ernest Morrell ...
    Over the course of the twentieth century, education was a key site for envisioning opportunities for African Americans, but the very schools they attended sometimes acted as obstacles to black flourishing. Educating Harlem brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to provide a broad consideration of the history of schooling in perhaps the nation’s most iconic black community.The volume ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • For the Common Good

    A New History of Higher Education in America

    by Charles Dorn ...
    Series series American Institutions and Society
    Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for?In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America's so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries of college and university history. From the community ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Homesickness

    An American History

    by Susan J. Matt ...
    Homesickness today is dismissed as a sign of immaturity, what children feel at summer camp, but in the nineteenth century it was recognized as a powerful emotion. When gold miners in California heard the tune "Home, Sweet Home," they sobbed. When Civil War soldiers became homesick, army doctors sent them home, lest they die. Such images don't fit with our national mythology, which celebrates the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Scattered and Fugitive Things

    How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History

    by Laura Helton ...
    Series series Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
    Winner: St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize, Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award, Arline Custer Memorial Book AwardHonorable Mention: Lawrence W. Levine Award, S-USIH Annual Book PrizeFinalist: ASALH Book Prize for Best New Book in African American History and CultureShortlisted: Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize, MLA Prize for a First BookDuri... ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The History of Black Studies

    by Abdul Alkalimat ...
    A surge of African American enrolment and student activism brought Black Studies to many US campuses in the 1960s. Sixty years later, Black Studies programmes are taught at more than 1,300 universities worldwide. This book is the first history of how that happened.Black Studies founder and movement veteran Abdul Alkalimat offers a comprehensive history of the discipline that will become a key ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I'll Make Me a World

    The 100-Year Journey of Black History Month

    by Jarvis R. Givens ...
    On its one-hundredth anniversary, a powerful and essential meditation on the origins, evolution, and future of Black History Month from one of America’s leading historians of Black education and the author of American Grammar.In I’ll Make Me a World, acclaimed Harvard scholar Jarvis R. Givens takes us on a personal and political journey through the 100-year history of Black History Month—from its ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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