1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990009321200403321

Autore

Ventura, Antonio <1946- >

Titolo

L'Italia di Piri Re'is : la cartografia turca alla corte di Solimano il Magnifico / Antonio Ventura

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lecce : Capone Editore, stampa 2000

ISBN

88-8349-008-8

Descrizione fisica

95 p. : ill. ; 21x30 cm

Collana

Omnibus

Locazione

DARST

Collocazione

30.1420

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453260503321

Autore

Fife Brian L

Titolo

Old school still matters : lessons from history to reform public education in America / / Brian L. Fife

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, California : , : Praeger, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-313-39809-7

0-313-39810-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 p.)

Disciplina

371.010973

Soggetti

Public schools - United States - History

Education - United States - History

Educational change - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-322) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Horace Mann and the Common School Ideology; The Idea of Public Education for All; The Importance of Theory and History in Education Reform; Public versus Private Institutions; The Common School Ideology of the 1830s and 1840s; Horace Mann's Common School Ideology in the Contemporary World and Beyond; 2 The Market-Based Ideology and Politics of the Conservative Right; Twentieth-Century Conservative Philosophers; The Impact of Conservatism on American Politics since 1980; Policy Implications of the Market-Based Ideology and Conservative Political Philosophy

3 Education and the Politics of FederalismThe Abstract Nature of the Federalism Debate; The Evolution of Federalism in the United States; The Whig Party of the Nineteenth Century; National Intervention in K-12 Public Education; The Serious and Somber Policy Implications of NCLB; 4 Education and the Politics of Consumerism and Conservatism; The McGuffey Readers of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Consumerism Defined; The Evolution of the Consumer Ideology; The Commercialization of Public Education; A Century-Old Illusion; 5 Education in the Early Twenty-First Century

K-12 Public School DesegregationSchool Choice in the Contemporary World; Revisiting the School Choice Debate; 6 Citizenship in a Republican Form of Government in the Twenty-First Century; The Omnipresent Reality of Systems Theory; The Role of the Citizen in a Republic; Political Participation in a Republic; The More Proactive Citizen in the American Republic; 7 Education: A Public Good Worth Defending; The Need for a Fearless Advocate of Public Education; Revisiting the Individualist Creed in the United States; What Is a Public Good?; 8 Blueprint for Progressive Reform

Reform Premise A: Maintain Horace Mann's Common School IdealReform Premise B: Maintain and Expand Civic Education in the Public Schools; Reform Premise C: Repeal NCLB in Its Entirety and Deemphasize High-Stakes Standardized Testing; Reform Premise D: Reduce Poverty in America; Reform Premise E: Citizens Must Become More Engaged in the Electoral Process; Reform Premise F: Embrace the Communitarian Philosophy; Reform Premise G: Revisit Federal Budgetary Priorities; Reform Premise H: Rethinking the Status Quo with Regard to the School Year and the School Day

Reform Premise I: Minimize the Influence of Business in Public EducationReform Premise J: Students, Parents, and Caregivers Are Part of the Solution; A Concluding Comment; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

"Can public schools in America be saved? This book considers theory, current practice, and the common school ideal through a historical lens to arrive at practical suggestions for reforming contemporary public education"--



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911028659503321

Autore

Saba Andrea

Titolo

Legal Implications of Results-Based Agri-Environmental and Climate Commitments in the EU Common Agricultural Policy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

3-031-82540-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 pages)

Collana

LITES - Legal Issues in Transdisciplinary Environmental Studies ; ; v.4

Disciplina

343.24076

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers essential insights into the policy and legal implications of the results-based approach in terms of shaping recent agri-environmental and climate commitments in the European Union and encouraging farmers to deliver significant and quantifiable enhancements of the quality of the environment within the EU Common Agricultural Policy.