The Allure of Order

The Allure of Order
Title The Allure of Order PDF eBook
Author Jal Mehta
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 405
Release 2015
Genre Education
ISBN 0190231459

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In The Allure of Order, Mehta recounts a century of attempts at revitalizing public education, and puts forward a truly new agenda to reach this elusive goal. Over and over again, outsiders have been fascinated by the promise of scientific management and have attempted to apply principles of rational administration from above. What we want, Mehta argues, is the opposite approach which characterizes top-performing educational nations: attract strong candidates into teaching, develop relevant and usable knowledge, train teachers extensively in that knowledge, and support these efforts through a strong welfare state.

In Search of Deeper Learning

In Search of Deeper Learning
Title In Search of Deeper Learning PDF eBook
Author Jal Mehta
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 465
Release 2019-04-22
Genre Education
ISBN 0674988396

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"The best book on high school dynamics I have ever read."--Jay Mathews, Washington Post An award-winning professor and an accomplished educator take us beyond the hype of reform and inside some of America's most innovative classrooms to show what is working--and what isn't--in our schools. What would it take to transform industrial-era schools into modern organizations capable of supporting deep learning for all? Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine's quest to answer this question took them inside some of America's most innovative schools and classrooms--places where educators are rethinking both what and how students should learn. The story they tell is alternately discouraging and hopeful. Drawing on hundreds of hours of observations and interviews at thirty different schools, Mehta and Fine reveal that deeper learning is more often the exception than the rule. And yet they find pockets of powerful learning at almost every school, often in electives and extracurriculars as well as in a few mold-breaking academic courses. These spaces achieve depth, the authors argue, because they emphasize purpose and choice, cultivate community, and draw on powerful traditions of apprenticeship. These outliers suggest that it is difficult but possible for schools and classrooms to achieve the integrations that support deep learning: rigor with joy, precision with play, mastery with identity and creativity. This boldly humanistic book offers a rich account of what education can be. The first panoramic study of American public high schools since the 1980s, In Search of Deeper Learning lays out a new vision for American education--one that will set the agenda for schools of the future.

The Allure of the Archives

The Allure of the Archives
Title The Allure of the Archives PDF eBook
Author Arlette Farge
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 96
Release 2013-09-24
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0300180217

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DIVArlette Farge’s Le Goût de l’archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge was struck by the extraordinarily intimate portrayal they provided of the lives of the poor in pre-Revolutionary France, especially women. She was seduced by the sensuality of old manuscripts and by the revelatory power of voices otherwise lost. In The Allure of the Archives, she conveys the exhilaration of uncovering hidden secrets and the thrill of venturing into new dimensions of the past. Originally published in 1989, Farge’s classic work communicates the tactile, interpretive, and emotional experience of archival research while sharing astonishing details about life under the Old Regime in France. At once a practical guide to research methodology and an elegant literary reflection on the challenges of writing history, this uniquely rich volume demonstrates how surrendering to the archive’s allure can forever change how we understand the past./div

The Allure of Matter

The Allure of Matter
Title The Allure of Matter PDF eBook
Author Wu Hung
Publisher Smart Museum of Art, the University of C
Pages 0
Release 2019
Genre Art
ISBN 9780935573602

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"This publication was produced by the Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, on the occasion of the exhibition The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China, curated by Wu Hung with Orianna Cacchione."

School, Society, and State

School, Society, and State
Title School, Society, and State PDF eBook
Author Tracy L. Steffes
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 298
Release 2012-05-15
Genre Education
ISBN 0226772098

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This book examines the connections between public school reform in the early twentieth century and American political development from 1890 to 1940.

Allure

Allure
Title Allure PDF eBook
Author Sinitus Tempo
Publisher
Pages 156
Release 2021-04-04
Genre
ISBN

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Akane Koizumi, an orphan on the streets on Tokyo has always dreamed of a life of luxury. After an unexpected encounter lands her in the hands of the Yakuza, she's trained to become the perfect assassin given the enhancement drug, Allure.

The Allure of Battle

The Allure of Battle
Title The Allure of Battle PDF eBook
Author Cathal Nolan
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 729
Release 2017-01-02
Genre History
ISBN 0199874654

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History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Cannae, Konigsberg, Austerlitz, Midway, Agincourt-all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning. But these legendary battles may or may not have determined the final outcome of the wars in which they were fought. Nor has the "genius" of the so-called Great Captains - from Alexander the Great to Frederick the Great and Napoleon - play a major role. Wars are decided in other ways. Cathal J. Nolan's The Allure of Battle systematically and engrossingly examines the great battles, tracing what he calls "short-war thinking," the hope that victory might be swift and wars brief. As he proves persuasively, however, such has almost never been the case. Even the major engagements have mainly contributed to victory or defeat by accelerating the erosion of the other side's defences. Massive conflicts, the so-called "people's wars," beginning with Napoleon and continuing until 1945, have consisted of and been determined by prolonged stalemate and attrition, industrial wars in which the determining factor has been not military but matériel. Nolan's masterful book places battles squarely and mercilessly within the context of the wider conflict in which they took place. In the process it help corrects a distorted view of battle's role in war, replacing popular images of the "battles of annihilation" with somber appreciation of the commitments and human sacrifices made throughout centuries of war particularly among the Great Powers. Accessible, provocative, exhaustive, and illuminating, The Allure of Battle will spark fresh debate about the history and conduct of warfare.