Author: John L. Rury File Type: pdf This book addresses an often-overlooked aspect of American education the development of schools in large cities. John L. Rury introduces and highlights the most significant and classic essays dealing with urban schooling in this collection. Touching upon each of the countrys principal geographic regions, Urban Education in the United States provides an introduction to critical themes in the history of city schools, framing each section with an overview of the major issues in urban education during particular periods in US history. This is an essential collection for students in urban education, the history of education, and American history.ReviewJohn Rury has produced a gem of a book about American urban education. Bracketed by Rurys graceful introduction and epilogue, the essays in this volume extend across the entire history of the Republic. Arguably, urban schools today face greater obstacles and challenges than at any previous point in our nations past. Yet we cannot hope to solve our contemporary woes if we continue to ignore their historical roots. I wish every American would read this book, which provides illuminating snapshots of the past--and sobering omens for the future.--Jonathan Zimmerman, Director, History of Education Program, New York UniversityAbout the AuthorJohn L. Rury is Chair of the Department of Teaching and Leadership and Professor in the School of Education at the University of Kansas. He is author of several books including Education and Social Change Themes in the History of American Schooling.

Author: Björn Krondorfer File Type: pdf p Segoe UI, serif 13pxA transdisciplinary approach to reconciliation practices and policies by an international team of scholars and scholar-practitioner. font face=Segoe UI, serif size=2When we open the newspaper, watch and listen to the news, or follow social media, we are inundated with reports on old and fresh conflict zones around the world. Less apparent, perhaps, are the many attempts at bringing former adversaries together. Reconciliation in Global Context argues for the merit of reconciliation and for the need of global conversations around this topic. The contributing scholars and scholar-practitionerswho hail from the United States, South Africa, Ireland, Israel, Zimbabwe, Germany, Palestine, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Switzerland, and the Netherlandsdescribe and analyze examples of reconciliatory practices in different national and political environments. Drawing on direct experiences with reconciliation efforts, from facilitating psychosocial intergroup workshops to critically evaluating official policies, they also reflect on the personal motivations that guide them in this field of engagement. Arranged along an arc that spans from cases describing and interpreting actual processes with groups in conflict to cases in which the conceptual merits and constraints of reconciliation are brought to the fore, the chapters ask hard questions, but also argue for a relational approach to reconciliatory practices. For, in the end, what is important is to embrace a spirit of reconciliation that avoids self-interested action and, instead, advances other-directed care.fontfont face=Segoe UI, serif size=2**fontfont face=Segoe UI, serif size=2This is simply the finest collection of essays on reconciliation processes working at the grassroots and mid-levels of societies I have ever seen. It takes up important issues and moves the discussion forward in each instance. Robert J. Schreiter, author of Constructing Local Theologiesfontfont face=Segoe UI, serif size=2**fontfont face=Segoe UI, serif size=2bBjorn Krondorferb is Director of the Martin-Springer Institute and Endowed Professor of Religious Studies at Northern Arizona University. He is the author of Male Confessions Intimate Revelations and the Religious Imagination.font

Author: Martin Bossenbroek File Type: epub The Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) is one of the most intriguing conflicts of modern history. It has been labeled many things the first media war, a precursor of the First and Second World Wars, the originator of apartheid. The difference in status and resources between the superpower Great Britain and two insignificant Boer republics in southern Africa was enormous. But, against all expectation, it took the British every effort and a huge sum of money to win the war, not least by unleashing a campaign of systematic terror against the civilian population. InThe Boer War, winner of the Netherlands 2013 Libris History Prize and shortlisted for the 2013 AKO Literature Prize, the author brings a completely new perspective to this chapter of South African history, critically examining the involvement of the Netherlands in the war. Furthermore, unlike other accounts, Martin Bossenbroek explores the war primarily through the experiences of three men uniquely active during the bloody conflict. They are Willem Leyds, the Dutch lawyer who was to become South African Republic state secretary and eventual European envoy Winston Churchill, then a British war reporter and Deneys Reitz, a young Boer commando. The vivid and engaging experiences of these three men enable a more personal and nuanced story of the war to be told, and at the same time offer a fresh approach to a conflict that shaped the nation state of South Africa.**ReviewBossenbroek seems able to read the hearts and souls of the protagonists of the Boer War without doing any disservice to the truth or the facts. This is what gives The Boer War--as thrilling a read as a kids adventure storyy--its gravity and elegance. Bossenbroek lifts the genre of nonfiction to a higher plane. -- NRC Handelsblad (Hollands leading daily newspaper of record, akin to the New York Times) You know how the war will end, and even so, The Boer War reads like a 460-page thriller. Bossenbroek has worked wonders. --Het Parool (Amsterdam-based Dutch-language daily newspaper) About the AuthorMARTIN BOSSENBROEKis an associate professor and historian at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. He graduated from the Free University of Amsterdam in 1980 and received his doctorate from the University of Leiden in 1992. He is the author of many scholarly articles, andThe Boer Waris his seventh published book. TranslatorYVETTE ROSENBERGwas born in Johannesburg and educated at the universities of Cape Town and Natal. After immigrating to the Netherlands, she was employed as a translator and editor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague from 1983 to 2005. Since 1995 she has also worked on numerous freelance translation projects, including for the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum. She lives in Amsterdam and Cape Town.

Author: Bruce Thomas Boehrer File Type: pdf During the Renaissance, horseslong considered the privileged, even sentient companions of knights-errantgradually lost their special place on the field of battle and, with it, their distinctive status in the world of chivalric heroism. Parrots, once the miraculous, articulate companions of popes and emperors, declined into figures of mindless mimicry. Cats, which were tortured by Catholics in the Middle Ages, were tortured in the Reformation as part of the Protestant attack on Catholicism. And sheep, the model for Agnus Dei imagery, underwent transformations at once legal, material, and spiritual as a result of their changing role in Europes growing manufacturing and trade economies. While in the Middle Ages these nonhumans were endowed with privileged social associations, personal agency, even the ability to reason and speak, in the early modern period they lost these qualities at the very same time that a new emphasis on, and understanding of, human character was developing in European literature. In Animal Characters Bruce Thomas Boehrer follows five speciesthe horse, the parrot, the cat, the turkey, and the sheepthrough their appearances in an eclectic mix of texts, from romances and poetry to cookbooks and natural histories. He shows how dramatic changes in animal character types between 1400 and 1700 relate to the emerging economy and culture of the European Renaissance. In early modern European culture, animals not only served humans as sources of labor, companionship, clothing, and food these nonhuman creatures helped to form an understanding of personhood. Incorporating readings of Shakespeares plays, Miltons Paradise Lost, Margaret Cavendishs Blazing World, and other works, Boehrers series of animal character studies illuminates a fascinating period of change in interspecies relationships. **Review Always succinct, surprising and often amusing, this book is a joy to read. The detail is where it shines. . . . Animal Characters records, represents, and renews early modern animals with style, wit, and erudition.Shakespeare Studies An interesting take on the problematic question of literary character, as well as a significant contribution to scholarship on anthropocentrism and the cultural history of personhood. The enthusiasm and scope of the writing make it an engaging read, and the depth and breadth of the source material is quite fascinating.The Medieval Review About the Author Bruce Thomas Boehrer is Bertram H. Davis Professor and Frances Cushing Ervin Professor of English at Florida State University. His Parrot Culture Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the Worlds Most Talkative Bird is also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.