1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459490003321

Autore

Jeynes William

Titolo

Parental involvement and academic success [[electronic resource] /] / William H. Jeynes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2010

ISBN

1-136-91286-X

1-282-88605-3

9786612886058

0-203-84344-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Disciplina

371.19/2

Soggetti

Education - Parent participation

Academic achievement

Motivation in education

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 referencesa and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 The History of Parents' Involvement as a Concept; Chapter 2 The Development of Parental Involvement Research; Chapter 3 Parental Involvement and Elementary School Achievement: A Meta-analysis; Chapter 4 Parental Involvement and Secondary School Achievement: A Meta-analysis; Chapter 5 Parental Involvement and Minority Student Achievement: A Meta-analysis; Chapter 6 Parental Involvement and Issues of Diversity; Chapter 7 Parental Involvement Programs: Do They Work?

Chapter 8 Parental Involvement and Family Structure's Influence on Educational OutcomesChapter 9 Does Parental Involvement Compensate for the Effects of Divorce (or Single Parenthood)?; Chapter 10 Success and Parental Involvement and What Can Be Done to Enhance Parental Involvement; Chapter 11 What Do We Know and What Do We Still Need to Know?; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Providing an objective assessment of the influence of parental involvement and what aspects of parental participation can best



maximize the educational outcomes of students, this volume is structured to guide readers to a thorough understanding of the history, practice, theories, and impact of parental involvement. Cutting-edge research and meta-analyses offer vital insight into how different types of students benefit from parental engagement and what types of parental involvement help the most. Unique among works on the topic, Parental Involvement and Academic Success</EM

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813100903321

Autore

Oliai Simon F.

Titolo

Challenging the absolute : Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Europe's struggle against fundamentalism / / Simon F. Oliai

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-7618-6516-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (171 p.)

Disciplina

111.6

Soggetti

Fundamentalism - History

Absolute, The

Philosophy - Europe - History

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.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; An Inevitably Endless Introduction; I: The Use and the Danger of Heidegger for Contemporary Thought; 1 On the Contemporary Pertinence of Heidegger's Philosophical Questioning; 2 Safeguarding "Being" from Its Fundamentalist Self-Persecution; II: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Historical Destiny of "European" Thought; 3 Nietzsche on the Art of Resistance to Onto-Theology; 4 On "Be-coming European Today"; 5 Heidegger on the Promise of Art at the Twilight of Philosophy; III: On "Europe's" Endless Struggle Against "Fundamentalisms"; 6 On Europe's Enlightening Example

7 Thinking the Essence of Neo-Fundamentalism8 Only a "God-Artist" Can Save Us; Notes



Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>In this book, written in the wake of such influential European thinkers as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, and Vattimo, Simon Oliai argues that unless the "European" affirmation of man's finite existence becomes universal, we shall never rid ourselves of the repressive shadow of a long dead metaphysical idol.</span></span>