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When Hope and Fear Collide : A Portrait of Today's Student (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)

by Arthur Levine, Jeanette S. Cureton

List: List: $29.95
Published by Jossey-Bass Publishers, February 1998
Book Description:
This comprehensive and engagingly readable portrait of tradional-age college students in the 1990s is essential reading for anyone concerned with this generation. The authors discuss politics (on campus and off), multiculturalism, attitudes toward personal and academic life, and describe the research that forms the basis for their portrayal of contemporary college students. This long-awaited follow-up to the author's classic, When Dreams And Heroes Died, reveals a heartening return to activism and social engagement in today's generation of college students.

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The Courage to Teach : Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

by Parker J. Palmer

List: $22.00, Our Price: $15.40, You Save: $6.60 (30%)
Published by Jossey-Bass Publishers, January 1998
Book Description:
As a spiritually inspirational book for teachers, The Courage to Teach is one of the best. The premise is concise and unarguable: good teaching comes from the identity and the integrity of the teacher. Teachers are encouraged to turn their inquiring minds inward--developing a deeper understanding of what it means to fulfill the spiritual calling of teaching. Good teachers share one trait, says author Parker Palmer, they are able to weave a complex web of connections among themselves, their subjects, and their students, so that students can learn to weave a world for themselves. The connections made by good teachers are held not in their methods but in their hearts--the place where intellect and emotion and spirit and will converge in the human self. --Gail Hudson

International Education : Its History and Promise for Today

by Theodore M. Vestal , Robert Leestma

Hardcover
List: $55.00
Published by Praeger Pub Text, April 1994
Book Description:
International education in the United States is at a significant crossroads. The magnanimity of the 102nd Congress has raised the possibility of federal financial support of international studies to a new level. The newly established governing board of the National Security Education Act can provide unprecedented coordination of federally supported international education programs. If federal financial support can be maintained and coordination achieved, the objectives of the IEA of 1966 can be realized in the 1990s. The academic community and public policy makers need to be made aware of the opportunities at hand in order for this to be possible. U.S. education generally and higher education specifically have a responsibility to improve our international capabilities in order to meet the post-Cold War challenges of a complex world.