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UNINA9910783260503321 |
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Titolo |
Who's in charge here? [[electronic resource] ] : the tangled web of school governance and policy / / Noel Epstein, editor |
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Denver, : Education Commission of the States |
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Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2004 |
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1-280-81304-0 |
9786610813049 |
0-8157-9665-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (319 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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School boards - United States |
Education and state - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : who should be in charge of our schools? / Noel Epstein -- Turning points : a history of American school governance / Michael W. Kirst -- The Tenth Amendment and other paper tigers : the legal boundaries of education governance / James E. Ryan -- Recovering from an accident : repairing governance with comparative advantage / Paul T. Hill -- A solution that lost its problem : centralized policymaking and classroom gains / Larry Cuban -- Less than meets the eye : standards, testing, and fear of federal control / Susan H. Fuhrman -- A teacher supply policy for education : how to meet the "highly qualified teacher" challenge / Linda Darling-Hammond and Gary Sykes -- Multiple choice questions : the road ahead / Henry M. Levin -- The American kibbutz? : managing the school's family role / Noel Epstein. |
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This title makes sense of the United States system of school governance and considers where it might be heading. It discusses issues such as recruiting good teachers, school choice, the school's growing 'family ' role and who is, and who should be, responsible for schools and the consequences for the students. |
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UNINA9910967174703321 |
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Autore |
Prabhu Anjali |
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Titolo |
Hybridity : limits, transformations, prospects / / Anjali Prabhu |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2007 |
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9780791480359 |
0791480356 |
9781429471442 |
1429471441 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (206 p.) |
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Collana |
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SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies |
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Reunionese literature (French) - History and criticism |
Multiracial people in literature |
Multiracial people - Psychology |
Miscegenation (Racist theory) |
Réunion Civilization |
Mauritius Civilization |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-174) and index. |
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Hybridity in contemporary postcolonial theory : examining agency -- Hybridity in La Reunion : Monique Boyer's Metisse and the nation as necessity -- Theorizing hybridity : colonial and postcolonial La Reunion -- On the difficulty of articulating hybridity : africanness Mauritius nation -- Ethnicity and the fate of the nation : reading Mauritius -- Interrogating hybridity : subaltern agency and totality in postcolonial theory through Edouard Glissant's Poetique de la relation -- Frantz Fanon and hybridity : a closer look at narrative in Black skin, white masks -- Afterword : why hybridity now? |
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This critical engagement with some of the most prominent contemporary theorists of postcolonial studies reevaluates recent theories of hybridity and agency. Challenging the claim that hybridity provides a site of resistance to hegemonic and homogenizing forces in an increasingly globalized world, Anjali Prabhu pursues the ways in which hybridity plays out in the Creole, postcolonial societies of |
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Mauritius and La Réunion, two small islands in the Indian Ocean, and offers an introduction to the literature and culture of this lesser-known region of Francophonie. She also reconsiders two major theorists from the Francophone context, Edouard Glissant and Frantz Fanon, through a provocatively Marxian framing that reveals these two writers shared more in common about agency and society than has previously been recognized. |
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