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  • The Life and Death of a Rural American High School (1995)

    Farewell Little Kanawha

    Edited by Deyoung Alan ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Published in 1995 this book provides an account of a detailed research project focusing on a rural school in West Virginia. Researched from several social science perspectives the book strives to capture intersections between biography and history in a particular public school – Burnsville High and Middle school in Braxton County - that has been influenced by social, political, and economic forces ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • Lost in Transition

    Redefining Students and Universities in the Contemporary Kyrgyz Republic

    by Alan J. DeYoung ...
    Series series International Perspectives on Educational Policy, Research and Practice
    Being a “student” has been and remains a highly desirable status for young people and their families in Kyrgyzstan. “Giving their children education” (dat detyam obrazovaniye) – meaning “higher education” - has become an imperative for many parents, even in a time of serious economic and social decline. The numbers of universities and university enrollments have increased dramatically – in fact ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Rural Education (1991)

    Issues and Practice

    Edited by Deyoung Alan ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1991, essays discuss and analyse rural schooling in its historical, social, and political contexts as well as its educational mission. Collections covering rural education in the United States are relatively rare, particularly texts that focus on available research literature in context, and many existing texts are written by educators outside of the University. This book ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • Surviving the Transition? Case Studies of Schools and Schooling in the Kyrgyz Republic Since Independence

    by Alan J. DeYoung, Kathryn M. Borman ...
    Series series International Perspectives on Educational Policy, Research and Practice
    This is a book about four rural secondary schools of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, a newly independent Central Asian state of the former USSR. Utilizing case study methods, we describe and discuss how teachers, administrators and students are attempting to survive the proclaimed “transition” to democracy and a market economy within their particular schools and communities. We view this work ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Empowered Witness (Foreword by Kevin DeYoung)

    Politics, Culture, and the Spiritual Mission of the Church

    by Alan D. Strange ...
    Rediscovering the Spirituality of the Church in Our Highly Politicized AgeThe goal of the church should be simple—share the gospel to the ends of the earth. But in our highly politicized age, Christians can tend to place earthly political and social agendas over God's spiritual mission of the church.In Empowered Witness, author Alan D. Strange examines the doctrine of the spirituality of the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Educational Policies in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan

    Contested Terrain in the Twenty-First Century

    by Dilshad Ashraf, Mir Afzal Tajik, Sarfaroz Niyozov, Sultonbek Aksakolov, Spogmai Akseer, Sharifullah Baig, Alan J. DeYoung, Shama Dossa0, Hakim Elnazarov1, Carole Faucher2, Jan-e-Alam Khaki3, Hajee Parveen Roy4, Mola Dad Shafa5, Christopher Whitsel6, Zakir Hussain Zakir7 ...
    In the mountains of the Northern Pakistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan School and schooling are both symbolic of wider ranging cultural and political battles over morals, modernity, development, gender and the rule of law. Educational Policies in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan: Contested Terrain in the Twenty-First Century is about both the normative battles over the purpose of education, as ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

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  • Educational Opportunity in Rural Contexts

    The Politics of Place

    Edited by Sheneka M. Williams, Ain A. Grooms ...
    Series series Research in Educational Policy: Local, National, and Global Perspectives
    The impetus behind this volume stems from reflections on commemorations of the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision. Brown turned 60 in May of 2014, and many special issues of peer-reviewed journals were dedicated to that anniversary. Unlike most special issues and volumes, we sought to highlight a smaller part of Brown, though no less significant. More specifically, we thought to develop ... Read more

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  • Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated

    The Collapse and Revival of American Community

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  • Don't Mourn, Balkanize!

    Essays after Yugoslavia

    by Andrej Grubačić ...
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  • What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia

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    The Real Crisis in Education

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