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“brian w dotts”

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  • Educational Foundations

    Philosophical and Historical Perspectives

    by Brian W. Dotts ...
    This educational foundations book offers a comprehensive overview of American education history and a variety of classical, Enlightenment, and contemporary educational philosophers. While Educational Foundations includes a history of American education, it also looks at numerous policies, constitutional law cases, events, and political, religious, and social conflicts for students to consider ... Read more

    $70.59 USD

  • The Elusive Thomas Jefferson

    Essays on the Man Behind the Myths

    Edited by Brian W. Dotts, M. Andrew Holowchak ...
    Thomas Jefferson's writings on morality have largely been ignored. His thoughts on the subject, never developed in any formal work, are said to be unsystematic--a judgment reinforced by his shift from Stoicism (intentions are critical) to Utilitarianism (consequences are critical) later in life.Yet his writings and the moral works he recommended reveal much about his moral sense and views on good ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Political Education of Democratus

    Negotiating Civic Virtue during the Early Republic

    by Brian W. Dotts ...
    Thomas Paine described the American Revolution as educative. However, as examined in Brian W. Dotts’ The Political Education of Democratus: Negotiating Civic Virtue during the Early Republic, what was learned was neither standardized nor uniform. The Federalists, for example, viewed the revolution as a triumph for representative government, but one intended to maintain many remnants of the ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

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  • Philology

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    A prehistory of today's humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth centuryMany today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as history, culture, art, and more. In short, ... Read more

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  • James Madison

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  • The Promise of Schooling

    Education in Canada, 1800-1914

    by Paul Axelrod ...
    Between 1800 and 1914, Canadian society and its school systems were forged, populated, expanded and reformed. The Promise of Schooling explores the links between social and educational change in this complex and dynamic period. It raises and seeks to answer a number of questions: How extensive was schooling in the early nineteenth century? What lay behind the campaign to extend publicly funded ... Read more

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  • The Five Thousand Year Leap

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    The Founding Fathers of the United States of America created the first free people in modern times. They wrote a new kind of Constitution which is now the oldest in existence. They built a new kind of commonwealth designed as a model for the whole human race. They believed it was thoroughly possible to create a new kind of civilization; giving freedom, equality, and justice to all. The Founders ... Read more

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  • Thinking Historically

    Educating Students for the 21st Century

    by Stephane Levesque ...
    Two simple but profound questions have preoccupied scholars since the establishment of history education over a century ago: what is historical thinking, and how do educators go about teaching it? In Thinking Historically, Stéphane Ltévesque examines these questions, focusing on what it means to think critically about the past. As students engage in a new century already characterized by global ... Read more

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    An Uncommon History of 1776

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  • Harvard Classics Vol. 1: Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn (Illustrated Edition)

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