...This introductory chapter provides an overview of the role of public school teachers in state- and nation-building in the modern Middle East. Under colonial rule, public education, a national institution, necessarily promoted regional and transnational notions of affiliation, shaping how...

..., creating a gendered poetic lineage looking back to epic, it also showcases the three central pillars in Aristophanes's depiction of the relationship between gender and the poiētēs. Indeed, as the chapter shows, Aristophanes claims to educate men through his poetry to form the backbone...

...This chapter examines a study conducted with the Peruvian microfinance institution Arariwa, which explores a number of questions regarding technology's potential and proper role as a development tool by implementing and testing a multimedia financial education program for clients. In this case...

...This chapter examines the emergence of the Downtown School for Design, Media, and Technology within the context of historical cycles of purportedly disruptive educational reform in the United States. It considers how reformers' inability to remedy the social and political problems with which...

... studies popular education The core of this book addresses the intersection between everyday life and a mere two hundred lines of poetry: Felicia Hemans’s “Casabianca” (1826), Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (1751), and Charles Wolfe’s “Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna” (1817...

... expected by filing education waivers. They matriculated predominantly at midwestern and East Coast schools, and some of their campmates were recruited for Japanese-language immersion at the Military Intelligence Service Language School, based at Camp Savage, Minnesota. Yet residual delinquency among Nisei...

...This chapter asks who conservative students are by drawing on two sources. First are the surveys administered by the University of California at Los Angeles's Higher Education Research Institute to thousands of incoming college freshmen and graduating seniors during the 2000s. The second source...

...Table 9.1. Campus Hate Crimes, 2009–14 Year Reported Crimes 2009 672 2010 928 2011 761 2012 784 2013 778 2014 804 Source: NCES 2016b, table 329.30 . Figure 9.1. Education and Related Costs and State...

...; and the role of education in utopian vision. World War I Hemingway Ernest utopianism dystopian fiction and films Elliot Robert eugenics Huxley Aldous Orwell George Sargent Lyman Tower utopian literature Weitz Eric Zamyatin Yevgeny Bellamy Edward Bellamy Edward novels of Dr Heidenhoff’s Process...

...This chapter provides a definition of rights and describes the distinction between the categories of positive and negative rights. It first examines the rights movements' campaigns to add education, labor, and environmental rights to state constitutions before discussing the controversy surrounding...

...This concluding chapter clarifies that the book has refuted the claim that positive rights are outside the American constitutional tradition by investigating the various campaigns to add education and labor rights as well as rights to environmental protection to state constitutions. By including...

..., and physical sciences; medicine; law; the humanities; religion; and education. Weber spoke in a social science panel concerned with rural communities. The discussions centered on the methodological unity of the sciences. The chapter first considers Weber's insistence on science as an experimental inquiry...

...This chapter focuses on education in middle America. Education fitting the needs and aspirations of its citizens was an important aspect of life in heartland states from the start. Country schools, private academies, public high schools, and colleges were founded in such numbers during the first...

...This chapter takes into account information about parents' education and political involvement and about the home political environment, which adds another dimension to the persistence of inequalities of political voice. These processes, in short, work across generations. Those who had well...

.... Such threats are collectively referred to as American insecurity—or, in some cases, simply economic insecurity. The book focuses primarily on four threats: involuntary job loss, health care costs, retirement, and higher education costs. These four by no means capture the full range of financial threats...

...This chapter examines how people respond when the issues at stake refer to economic insecurity. It presents the results of a series of experiments in which citizens were randomly assigned to receive requests that mentioned either insecurity issues like education costs and healthcare costs or other...

...This chapter explores how students' private concerns came to occupy the center of campus and national politics in the 1960s and in so doing thrust higher education into the thick of the nascent rights revolution. Students' rights-based reconstruction of the educated citizen marked a departure from...

...This chapter examines how champions of entrepreneurial citizenship remake education, proposing that the skills of producing innovation and the skills of taking civic action are one and the same. These educational reforms promise that “every child” can be an entrepreneur. This model appears...

...This chapter investigates a set of “direct” benefits to education. Education provides an interesting and potentially enjoyable experience for students; it educates people as citizens and voters; it generates higher tax payments; it even reduces crime. And it provides for the individuals concerned...

... childhood problems and early education. Finally, the chapter discusses the effects of crime, both on the individual criminal and on society as a whole. behavioral development Britain British Cohort Study BCS children crime de la Bruyère Jean health Machin S poverty quality of life United States...