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A World without Martha
A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference
Victoria Freeman was only four when her parents followed medical advice and sent her sister away to a distant, overcrowded institution. Martha was not yet two, but in the 1960s there was little community...
ISBN: 9780774880404
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Postsecondary Education in British Columbia
Public Policy and Structural Development, 1960–2015
The literature about postsecondary education in British Columbia has largely focused on public colleges and universities, while paying less attention to vocational colleges, apprenticeship, continuing...
ISBN: 9780774838344
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Native Students at Work
American Indian Labor and Sherman Institute's Outing Program, 1900-1945
Native Students at Work tells the stories of Native people from around the American Southwest who participated in labor programs at Sherman Institute, a federal Indian boarding school in Riverside,...
ISBN: 9780295744285
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American Indian Business
Principles and Practices
American Indian business is booming. The number of American Indian– and Alaska Native–owned businesses increased by 15.3 percent from 2007 to 2012—a time when the total number of US businesses...
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Practising Community-Based Participatory Research
Stories of Engagement, Empowerment, and Mobilization
There is increasing pressure on university scholars to reach beyond the “ivory tower” and engage in collaborative research with communities. But what exactly is community-based participatory...
ISBN: 9780774880114
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Education at the Edge of Empire
Negotiating Pueblo Identity in New Mexico's Indian Boarding Schools
For the vast majority of Native American students in federal Indian boarding schools at the turn of the twentieth century, the experience was nothing short of tragic. Dislocated from family and community,...
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Educating the Chinese Individual
Life in a Rural Boarding School
In twenty-first-century China, socialist educational traditions have given way to practices that increasingly emphasize the individual. This volume investigates that trend, drawing on Hansen's fieldwork...
ISBN: 9780295994093
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Sharing Breath
Embodied Learning and Decolonization
Treating bodies as more than discursive in social research can feel out of place in academia. As a result, embodiment studies remain on the outside of academic knowledge construction and critical...
ISBN: 9781771991919
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Knowing the Past, Facing the Future
Indigenous Education in Canada
In 1867, Canada’s federal government became responsible for the education of Indigenous peoples: Status Indians and some Métis would attend schools on reserves; non-Status Indians and some Métis...
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Assessment Strategies for Online Learning
Engagement and Authenticity
Assessment has provided educational institutions with information about student learning outcomes and the quality of education for many decades. But has it informed practice and been fully incorporated...
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An Online Doctorate for Researching Professionals
Progam Design, Implementation, and Evaluation
The interest in and demand for online terminal degrees across disciplines by professionals wishing to conduct research and fulfill doctoral degree requirements at a distance is only increasing. This...
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The Audio Dictionary
The Audio Dictionary is a comprehensive resource, including historical, obsolete, and obscure as well as contemporary terms relating to diverse aspects of audio such as film and TV sound,...
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Chinese Students Encounter America
An instant bestseller upon its publication in China in 1996, Chinese Students Encounter America (Liuxue Meiguo) appealed to those who had studied abroad, those who dreamed of doing so, and...
ISBN: 9780295981819
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The Chicana/o Education Pipeline
History, Institutional Critique, and Resistance
This anthology explores the relationships between Chicana/o students, families, and communities and the various school settings that comprise the education pipeline, from Kindergarten classrooms...
ISBN: 9780895511669
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Color-Line to Borderlands
The Matrix of American Ethnic Studies
"Ethnic Studies . . . has drawn higher education, usually kicking and screaming, into the borderlands of scholarship, pedagogy, faculty collegiality, and institutional development," Johnnella E....
ISBN: 9780295980911
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Make Yourself a Teacher
Rabbinic Tales of Mentors and Disciples
Make Yourself a Teacher is a teaching book and a book about teaching. It discusses three dramatic, well-known stories about the student and teacher Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus from the Oral...
ISBN: 9780295991290
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Winning the Math Wars
No Teacher Left Behind
Washington State is about to enter a new phase of the "math wars." Since the late 1980s, the debate over how best to teach mathematics to schoolchildren has raged worldwide among educators, politicians,...
ISBN: 9780295989679
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Toward a Global PhD?
Forces and Forms in Doctoral Education Worldwide
Universities and nations have long recognized the direct contribution of graduate education to the welfare of the economy by meeting a range of research and employment needs. With the burgeoning...
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Washington State
This revised, updated, and improved edition of the leading high school textbook on Washington State history brings the reader from the earliest known accounts of the region up to the present. Incorporating...
ISBN: 9780295982885
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Outline of Cat Anatomy with Reference to the Human
The cat has been used as a subject for dissection in the study of mammalian anatomy for almost two centuries. The very popular Pictorial Anatomy of the Cat by Stephen G. Gilbert, originally published...
ISBN: 9780295978185
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