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.

UNINA9910798712303321

Titolo

Cultural contact and appropriation in the Axial-age Mediterranean world : a periplos / / edited by Baruch Halpern, Kenneth S. Sacks, Tyler Edward Kelley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

90-04-19455-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, , 1566-2055 ; ; Volume 86

Disciplina

303.4824

Soggetti

Culture - History - Mediterranean Region

Civilization - History - Mediterranean Region

Mediterranean Region Civilization

Mediterranean Region History To 476

Mediterranean Region Relations

Mediterranean Region Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Baruch Halpern and Kenneth S. Sacks -- Zeus and Prometheus: Greek Adaptations of Ancient Near Eastern Myths / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- The Theogony and the Enuma Elish: City-State Creation Myths / Stephen Scully -- Achaemenid Propaganda and Oral Traditions: A Reassessment of Herodotus’ Early Persian Logoi / Jonathan David -- Evidence of Peace and War in Persian Period Yehud / John W. Betlyon -- Alphabetic Writing in the Mediterranean World: Transmission and Approriation / André Lemaire -- The Name of the Prophet ḥăbaqqûq / David S. Vanderhooft -- ἀμόργη/Amurca: A Semitic Loanword? / Eric Lee Welch -- Twin Peaks: From Mt. Saphon to the Pillars of Herakles / Assaf Yasur-Landau -- A Cache of Terracotta Votives from Mendes: Elements of Popular Religion in the Axial Age / Susan Redford -- The Origin and Termination of the Foreign Colony-Garrison at Elephantine / Donald Redford -- When Chimaeras were Chimaeras / Baruch Halpern -- Medicine and Mathematics in Fifth-



century Greece and the Question of Near Eastern Influence / Markus Asper -- Who Markets Ideas? Elite and Non-elite Transmission of Culture and Technology / Kenneth S. Sacks -- Bibliography -- Ancient Sources Index -- Modern Authors Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Karl Jaspers dubbed the period, 800-400 BCE, the Axial Age. Axial it was, for out of it emerged the idea of Greek culture, with its influence on Roman and later empires. Jaspers’ Axial Age was the chrysalis of culturally-meaningful modernity. Trade expands intellectual horizons. The economic and political effects permeate such social domains as technology, language and worldview. In the last category, many issues take on an emotional freight – the birth of science, monotheism, philosophy, even theory itself. Cultural Contact and Appropriation in the Axial-Age Mediterranean World: A Periplos , explores adaptation, resistance and reciprocity in Axial-Age Mediterranean exchange (ca. 800-300 BCE). Some essayists expand on an international discussion about myth, to which even the Church Fathers contributed. Others explore questions of how vocabulary is reapplied, or how the alphabet is reapplied, in a new environment. Detailed cases ground participants’ capacity to illustrate both the variety of the disciplinary integuments in which we now speak, one with the other, across disciplines, and the sheer complexity of constructing a workable programme for true collaboration.



3.

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,