1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459734603321

Autore

Featherman Sandra

Titolo

Higher education at risk : strategies to improve outcomes, reduce tuition, and stay competitive in a disruptive environment / / Sandra Featherman ; foreword by Stephen Joel Trachtenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sterling, Virgina : , : Stylus Publishing, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-62036-069-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

378.3/8

Soggetti

College costs - United States

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 index.

Nota di contenuto

Higher education at risk -- Nonprofit colleges: strengths and weaknesses -- Why college costs are so high -- How the for-profits do it -- Case studies, opportunities, and challenges -- Some prescriptions for higher education.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790766503321

Autore

Howe Sondra Wieland <1938->

Titolo

Women music educators in the United States : a history / / Sondra Wieland Howe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Scarecrow Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-8108-8848-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (381 p.)

Disciplina

780.71/073

Soggetti

Music - Instruction and study - United States - History

Women music teachers - United States - 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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. EARLY AMERICAN MUSIC EDUCATION (TO 1860); Chapter One. Colonial and Revolutionary America; Chapter Two. Antebellum America (1790-1860); Part II. CIVIL WAR AND THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1860-1900); Chapter Three. Music in the Private Sphere, Churches, and Community; Chapter Four. Music in the Public Sphere: School Music, Publishing, and Teacher Training; Chapter Five. Music Organizations in the Nineteenth Century; Part III. TWENTIETH CENTURY THROUGH WORLD WAR II (1900-1945)

Chapter Six. Music Supervisors in the Public SchoolsChapter Seven. Classroom Music, Music Appreciation, and Choirs; Chapter Eight. Instrumental Music; Chapter Nine. Publications: Textbooks, Piano Methods, and Folk Music; Chapter Ten. Music in the Community; Chapter Eleven. Music Education Organizations (1900-1945); Chapter Twelve. Higher Education: Institutes, Normal Schools, Conservatories, and Universities; Part IV. SINCE WORLD WAR II (1945-TODAY); Chapter Thirteen. New Methodologies: Dalcroze, Orff, Kodály, and Suzuki; Chapter Fourteen. Music Education Organizations since 1945

Chapter Fifteen. Publications: Textbooks, Piano Methods, and JournalsChapter Sixteen. Choirs, Orchestras, Bands, and Conductors; Postlude; Bibliography; Index; About the Author



Sommario/riassunto

Although women have been teaching and performing music for centuries, their stories are often missing from traditional accounts of the history of music education. In Women Music Educators in the United States: A History, Sondra Wieland Howe provides a comprehensive narrative of women teaching music in the United States from colonial days until the end of the twentieth century. Defining music education broadly to include home, community, and institutional settings, Howe draws on sources from musicology, the history of education,