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“matthew mccormack”

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  • Shoes and the Georgian Man

    by Matthew McCormack ...
    Shoes are everyday objects but they are loaded with meaning. This book reveals how shoes played a powerful role in the wider story of shifts in gender relations in 18th-century Britain. It focuses on the relationship of shoes with the body and its movements, and therefore how what we wear on our feet relates closely to social, occupational and gender roles. It also uses footwear to explore topics ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Innovations in Teaching History

    Eighteenth-Century Studies in Higher Education

    Edited by Ruth Larsen, Alice Marples, Matthew McCormack ...
    An essential teaching companion offering practical strategies for enhancing learning for all teachers of history in higher education.The study of the eighteenth century has been a growth area in university research and teaching in recent decades. Although widely taught in history departments, the eighteenth century also presents challenges, including new students’ unfamiliarity with the period, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Citizenship and Gender in Britain, 1688-1928

    by Matthew McCormack ...
    Citizenship and Gender in Britain, 1688–1928 explores the history of citizenship in Britain during a period when admission to the political community was commonly thought about in terms of gender.Between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the Equal Franchise Act of 1928 the key question in British politics was what sorts of men – and subsequently women – should be admitted to citizenship, ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

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  • History through material culture

    by Leonie Hannan, Sarah Longair ...
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    History through material culture is a unique, step-by-step guide for students and researchers who wish to use objects as historical sources.Responding to the significant, scholarly interest in historical material culture studies, this book makes clear how students and researchers ready to use these rich material sources can make important, valuable and original contributions to history.Written by ... Read more

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  • Museums and Education

    Purpose, Pedagogy, Performance

    by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill ...
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    At the beginning of the 21st century museums are challenged on a number of fronts. The prioritisation of learning in museums in the context of demands for social justice and cultural democracy combined with cultural policy based on economic rationalism forces museums to review their educational purposes, redesign their pedagogies and account for their performance.The need to theorise learning and ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Theatre in Education

    by Roger Wooster ...
    Theatre in Education emerged in the mid-sixties as a unique hybrid of performance and child-centred learning. Contemporary Theatre in Education charts the creation and adaptation of this 'hybrid' through the Is it possible for the hybrid to survive? Or have the economics of schools, the post-National Curriculum educational philosophy and the lack of understanding from a new breed of teachers ... Read more

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  • The Working Class

    Poverty, education and alternative voices

    Edited by Ian Gilbert ...
    In The Working Class: Poverty, education and alternative voices, Ian Gilbert unites educators from across the UK and further afield to call on all those working in schools to adopt a more enlightened and empathetic approach to supporting children in challenging circumstances. One of the most intractable problems in modern education is how to close the widening gap in attainment between the haves ... Read more

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  • Art, Community and Environment

    Educational Perspectives

    by Glen Coutts, Timo Jokela ...
    Series series Readings in Art and Design Education
    Academics, artists and critics focus on specific practices and broader contexts for cultural production, highlighting the work of artists in the former Soviet and East European bloc and in the West. The collection reveals that some practices have not changed, and that in a world of globalized consumption, art and theory are not as liberated as first supposed. New practices are discussed: ... Read more

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  • Recoding the Museum

    Digital Heritage and the Technologies of Change

    by Ross Parry ...
    Series series Museum Meanings
    Why has it taken so long to make computers work for the museum sector?And why are museums still having some of the same conversations about digital technology that they began back in the late 1960s?Does there continue to be a basic ‘incompatibility’ between the practice of the museum and the functions of the computer that explains this disconnect?Drawing upon an impressive range of professional ... Read more

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  • Why Architects Matter

    Evidencing and Communicating the Value of Architects

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  • Engaging Heritage, Engaging Communities

    by Bryony Onciul, Elizabeth Dale Pishief, Evita Busa, Gregory Ashworth, Gregory Ramshaw, Helen Graham, Helen Tully, John Everard Tunbridge, Julian Hartley, Justin Sikora0, Michelle L. Stefano1, Nicole King3, Philipp Schorch4, Shatha Abu-Khafajah5, Wayne Ngata6, Ashley Colleen Minner8, Bernadette Lynch9, Billie Lythberg0, Carl Hogsden1, Conal McCarthy2 ...
    Across the global networks of heritage sites, museums, and galleries, the importance of communities to the interpretation and conservation of heritage is increasingly being recognised. Yet the very term "meaningful community engagement" betrays a myriad of contrary approaches and understandings. Who is a community? How can they engage with heritage and why would they want to? How do communities ... Read more

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