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Teacher training at Cambridge
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ISBN: 1135783047 0713002344 1280046112 0203642686 9780203642689 9786610046119 6610046115 9780713002348 9780713040548 0713040548 0713040548 9781135783044 9781135782993 1135782997 9781135783037 1135783039 9781280046117 Year: 2004 Publisher: London Woburn Press

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This book focuses on two educationalists, Oscar Browning (1837-1923) and Elizabeth Hughes (1852-1925) who were the principals of the two separate day training colleges for men and women at Cambridge. The early initiatives of these two leaders began the development of education studies at Cambridge University and, therefore, serve as test cases to examine the relationship between teacher training and the university. As their early programmes foreshadowed the work of the present-day Faculty of Education, a historical review of these Victorian educational experiments uncovers how the unstable rel.

A history of the University of Cambridge
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ISBN: 9780511582202 9780521350600 0585090998 9780585090993 051158220X 0511000995 0521328829 052134350X 052135059X 9780521350594 9780521343503 0521350603 9780521328821 9780511000997 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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Cambridge in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was a place of sharp contrasts. At one extreme a gifted minority studied mathematics intensively for the Tripos, the honours degree. At the other, most undergraduates faced meagre academic demands and might idle their time away. The dons, the fellows of the colleges that constituted the University, were chosen for their Tripos performance and included scholars of international reputation such as Whewell and Sidgwick, but also men who treated their fellowships as sinecures. A pillar of the Church of England that denied membership to non-Anglicans, the University functioned largely as a seminary, while teaching more mathematics than theology. This volume describes the complex institution of the University, and also the beginnings of its transformation after 1850 - under the pressure of public opinion and the State - into the University as it exists today: inclusive in its membership, diverse in its curricula, and staffed by committed scholars and teachers.

Defending diversity
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ISBN: 1282940279 9786612940279 0472026496 9780472026494 0472113070 9781282940277 6612940271 9780472113071 Year: 2004 Publisher: Ann Arbor


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Changing the Subject
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ISBN: 0231501145 9780231501149 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York, NY

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This remarkable story begins in the years following the Civil War, when reformers-emboldened by the egalitarian rhetoric of the post-Civil War era-pressed New York City's oldest institution of higher learning to admit women in the 1870's. Their effort failed, but within twenty years Barnard College was founded, creating a refuge for women scholars at Columbia, as well as an academic beachhead "from which women would make incursions into the larger university." By 1950, Columbia was granting more advanced degrees to women and hiring more female faculty than any other university in the country. In Changing the Subject, Rosalind Rosenberg shows how this century-long struggle transcended its local origins and contributed to the rise of modern feminism, furthered the cause of political reform, and enlivened the intellectual life of America's most cosmopolitan city. Surmounting a series of social and institutional obstacles to gain access to Columbia University, women played a key role in its evolution from a small, Protestant, male-dominated school into a renowned research university. At the same time, their struggles challenged prevailing ideas about masculinity, femininity, and sexual identity; questioned accepted views about ethnicity, race, and rights; and thereby laid the foundation for what we now know as gender. From Lillie Devereux Blake, Annie Nathan Meyer, and Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve in the first generation, through Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, and Zora Neale Hurston in the second, to Kate Millett, Gerda Lerner, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the third, the women of Columbia shook the world.

The power of position
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ISBN: 9786612357077 1282357077 052092990X 1597348287 9780520929906 1417525673 9781417525676 9781597348287 661235707X 0520237676 9780520237674 9781282357075 Year: 2004 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Throughout the twentieth century, Beijing University (or Beida) has been at the center of China's greatest political and cultural upheavals-from the May Fourth Movement of 1919 to the Cultural Revolution of the 1960's to the tragic events in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Why this should be-how Beida's historical importance has come to transcend that of a mere institution of higher learning--is a question at the heart of this book. A study of intellectuals and political culture during the past century's tumultuous early decades, The Power of Position is the first to focus on Beida, China's oldest and best-known national university. Timothy B. Weston portrays the university as a key locus used by intellectuals to increase their influence in society. Weston analyzes the links between intellectuals' political and cultural commitments and their specific manner of living. He also compares Beijing's intellectual culture with that of the rising metropolis of Shanghai. What emerges is a remarkably nuanced and complex picture of life at China's leading university, especially in the decades leading up to the May Fourth Movement.

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Political culture --- Higher education and state --- Education, Higher --- State and higher education --- Education and state --- History. --- Government policy --- Beijing da xue --- Jing shi da xue tang (Beijing, China) --- Pei-ching ta hsüeh --- National University of Peking --- Metropolitan University (Beijing, China) --- Universität Peking --- Beijing (China). --- Guo li Beijing da xue --- Bei jing da xue --- Peking University --- Université de Pékin --- Beijing University --- Kokuritsu Pekin Daigaku --- Pei ta (China) --- Universität Beijing --- Pekinger Reichsuniversitaet --- Pukkyŏng Taehak --- Begejing Yeke Surġaġuli --- Universitas Peking --- 北京大〓 --- 北京大学 --- 北京大學 --- 國立北京大學 --- S02/0210 --- S11/0708 --- S11/0709 --- S14/0200 --- S14/0400 --- History --- China: General works--Intellectuals: general and before 1840 --- China: Social sciences--Elite --- China: Social sciences--Cadres (incl. political commissars) --- China: Education--General works --- China: Education--Modern education: before 1949 (incl. Modern intellectual trends) --- academia. --- beida. --- beijing university. --- beijing. --- china. --- chinese anarchism. --- chinese culture. --- chinese history. --- chinese intellectuals. --- chinese republic. --- chinese students. --- citizenship. --- college campus. --- college. --- cultural revolution. --- democracy. --- free speech. --- higher education. --- history. --- intellectual culture. --- may fourth movement. --- national university. --- nonfiction. --- peoples republic. --- politics. --- protest. --- rebellion. --- resistance. --- shanghai. --- social change. --- social influence. --- social standing. --- student protest. --- student. --- tiananmen square. --- university.

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