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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452566003321

Autore

Sleeter Christine E. <1948-, >

Titolo

Keepers of the American dream : a study of staff development and multicultural education / / Christine E. Sleeter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-280-77658-7

9786613686978

1-136-51018-4

0-203-14731-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (446 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions: education ; ; 121

Disciplina

370.1170973

370.19/341

370.19341

Soggetti

Multicultural education - United States

Teachers - In-service training - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1992 by Falmer Press.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-235) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; 1. The American Dream in the 1980s; 2. Staff Development for Multicultural Education; 3. The Teachers in their Classrooms; 4. Experiencing Staff Development; 5. Looking for Effects of Staff Development in the Classroom; 6. A Second Year of Staff Development; 7. Preserving the American Dream; 8. Multicultural Education, Staff Development, and a New American Dream; Postscript; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book reports an ethnographic study of thirty teachers from eighteen schools who participated in a staff development programme in multicultural education. The study examines how multicultural education was actually presented to teachers, and areas in which their classroom teaching and perception of students changed over the two-year period. Although most of the teachers reported learning a good deal, changes in their teaching and their discussions of teaching were fairly limited. After reporting the data, the book examines why changes



were limited, analyzing three areas: the natu

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910706724603321

Autore

Zwack M. R.

Titolo

Program to optimize simulated trajectories II (POST2) surrogate models for Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) performance assessment / / M.R. Zwack [and four others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Huntsville, Alabama : , : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Marshall Space Flight Center, , December 2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 19 pages) : color illustrations

Collana

NASA/TM ; ; 2017-219842

Soggetti

Mars exploration

Trajectory optimization

Proving

Experiment design

Propellant mass ratio

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"December 2017."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 19).