1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457455903321

Titolo

Learning through collaborative research : the Six Nation Education Research Project / / edited by Noel F. McGinn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : RoutledgeFalmer, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-93235-2

1-280-24346-5

9786610243464

0-203-32753-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

Reference books in international education

Altri autori (Persone)

McGinnNoel F. <1934->

Disciplina

370/.72

Soggetti

Education and state

Education - Research

Education - Political aspects

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 and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

International cooperation in comparative education research / Noel F. McGinn -- Predictors of national differences in mathematics and science achievement of eighth grade students : data from TIMSS / Erling E. Boe ... [et al.] -- Pedagogical practices in English language education / Rita Skuja-Steele and Rita Silver -- Vocational training and education / Christoph Metzger ... [et al.] -- Higher education reforms : determinants and directions / Akira Arimoto -- Education evaluation and indicators in the People's Republic of China, Singapore, and the United States / Zhang Li -- The Six Nation Project as an experience in collaborative research / Noel F. McGinn.

Sommario/riassunto

This book covers the seven-year project involving China, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, and the US, to show how collaborative research can help expand worldwide knowledge of education.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454698803321

Autore

Zuckert Michael P. <1942->

Titolo

Natural rights and the new republicanism [[electronic resource] /] / Michael P. Zuckert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 1994

ISBN

1-4008-0901-0

1-4008-1399-9

1-283-13327-X

9786613133274

1-4008-2152-5

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (418 p.)

Disciplina

323/.01

Soggetti

Natural law

Republicanism

Political science - History - 17th century

Political science - History - 18th century

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 (p. [377]-390) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Part I: Protestants -- Chapter 1. Aristotelian Royalism and Reformation Absolutism: Divine Right Theory -- Chapter 2. Aristotelian Constitutionalism and Reformation Contractarianism: From Ancient Constitution to Original Contract -- Chapter 3. Contract and Christian Liberty: John Milton -- Part II: Whigs -- Chapter 4. Whig Contractarianisms and Rights -- Chapter 5. The Master of Whig Political Philosophy -- Chapter 6. A Neo-Harringtonian Moment? Whig Political Science and the Old Republicanism -- Part III: Natural Rights and the New Republicanism -- Chapter 7. Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Questions Concerning the Law of Nature -- Chapter 8. Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Two Treatises of Government -- Chapter 9. Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Of Property -- Chapter 10. Locke and the Transformation of Whig Political Philosophy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

In Natural Rights and the New Republicanism, Michael Zuckert proposes a new view of the political philosophy that lay behind the founding of the United States. In a book that will interest political scientists, historians, and philosophers, Zuckert looks at the Whig or opposition tradition as it developed in England. He argues that there were, in fact, three opposition traditions: Protestant, Grotian, and Lockean. Before the English Civil War the opposition was inspired by the effort to find the "one true Protestant politics--an effort that was seen to be a failure by the end of the Interregnum period. The Restoration saw the emergence of the Whigs, who sought a way to ground politics free from the sectarian theological-scriptural conflicts of the previous period. The Whigs were particularly influenced by the Dutch natural law philosopher Hugo Grotius. However, as Zuckert shows, by the mid-eighteenth century John Locke had replaced Grotius as the philosopher of the Whigs. Zuckert's analysis concludes with a penetrating examination of John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, the English "Cato," who, he argues, brought together Lockean political philosophy and pre-existing Whig political science into a new and powerful synthesis. Although it has been misleadingly presented as a separate "classical republican" tradition in recent scholarly discussions, it is this "new republicanism" that served as the philosophical point of departure for the founders of the American republic.