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The field of critical studies recognizes that all knowledge is deeply embedded in ideological, cultural, political, and historical contexts. Although this approach is commonly applied in other subfields of psychology, educational psychologywhich is the study of human learning, thinking, and behavior in formal and informal educational ......
Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy
How Stephen Jay Gould's career illustrates that criticizing science is important for American democracy. The question of public trust in science feels newly urgent, but today is not the first time that opposing ends of the American political spectrum have critiqued modern science. This dynamic has historical roots in the early 1970s, when ......
Avner Ben-Zaken reconsiders the fundamental question of how early modern scientific thought traveled between Western and Eastern cultures in the age of the so-called Scientific Revolution. Through five meticulously researched case studies -- in which he explores how a single obscure object or text moved in the eastern world -- Ben-Zaken reveals ......
Finding the Path to Bipartisan Collaboration in National Health Care Policy
This book will be of profound interest both to those responsible for carrying out national health care policy and to those who study health policy from an academic perspective.
This work examines the Middle Colonies -- New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania -- as a region at the center of imperial contests among competing European powers and Native American nations and at the fulcrum of an emerging BritishAtlantic world of culture and trade.Ned C. Landsman traces the history of the Middle Colonies to address questions ......
This work examines the Middle Colonies -- New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania -- as a region at the center of imperial contests among competing European powers and Native American nations and at the fulcrum of an emerging BritishAtlantic world of culture and trade.Ned C. Landsman traces the history of the Middle Colonies to address questions ......
Social Sector Reform, Democratization, and Globalization in Latin America
Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleCrucial Needs, Weak Incentives studies the politics of efforts to reform education and health services in Latin America in the 1990s. Both sectors were common targets of reformeducation because of its economic importance, health care because of needs to reduce great inequities of access ......
In Cultivating California, David Vaught shows how fruit and nut growers were neither industrialists nor agrarians. From the very outset, he explains, these ''horticulturists'' saw themselves as guardians of California's unique culture, raising crops for market while self-consciously building healthy and prosperous communities. Every grower was ......
The Purpose of a College Education for the Twenty-First Century
Two decades into the twenty-first century, our nation's colleges and universities no longer embrace a clear and convincing definition of the purpose of a college education. Instead, most institutions have fallen prey to a default purpose in which college is essentially workforce preparation for jobs that already exist, while students are viewed ......
