Books written by John Beck

Writing the Radical Center: William Carlos Williams, John Dewey, and American Cultural Politics

Explores the cultural work of two important early-twentieth-century writers: the poet William Carlos Williams and the educator/philosopher John Dewey, both key figures in American democracy.
Graduate Citizens: Issues of Citizenship and Higher Education

Giddens, A. (1982) Profiles and Critiques in Social Theory, London: Macmillan. —— (1998) The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy, Cambridge: Polity Press. —— (2000a) The Third Way and its Critics, Cambridge: Polity Press.
中学教师应关注的热点问题

本书分三部分介绍了学校、课程与课堂:教与学的问题;关怀、机会、社区及环境;价值观、道德与公民资格:个人、社会与健康教育问题。
Writing the Radical Center: William Carlos Williams, John Dewey, and American Cultural Politics

Michael W. Apple , Ideology and Curriculum ( London : Routledge , 1979 ) , p 47 . 23. Ibid . , p 48 . CHAPTER FOUR 1. ... Trade - Training : Reply to David Snedden , ” MW 8 , p 412 . 36. Irving Babbitt , Democracy and Leadership ...
Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature

For an extensive assessment of the dangers faced by migrants pushed to the most dangerous border crossing areas, see Urrea, The Devil's Highway, and John Annerino, Dead in Their Tracks: Crossing America's Desert Borderlands (New York: ...
Toward a Sociology of Education

By including material from literary, philosophical, and anthropological sources, and by selecting readings which consider educational practice both within and beyond formal educational contexts, this book broadens the character of ...
Concepts for timpani

There are numerous kinds of timpani mallets made by either the major percussion manufacturers or custom mallets made by individual timpanists or mallet manufacturers. Each mallet design has a distinct look and sound.
Toward a New Sociology of Education

Furthermore , the respondent's performance and the observer's evaluation of that performance is an interpreted and negotiated process . Although my analysis of interrogation encounters is not finely enough calibrated to decide which ...
Thirsty Are the Damned

Whether you're looking for a thrill or chill, this collection has a tale that will satisfy your need for blood. With no romantic contagions, this book is filled with vampires that are cursed, deprived and damn right blood-obsessed.
Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal

This is the age of patina, where the material remains of times past—the fields and factories, test sites, back alleys, machines, and statues—are coveted, adored, mourned, and commemorated, as well as sometimes despised.
Key Issues in Secondary Education: 2nd Edition

Arnot, M. (1997) Gendered citizenry: new feminist perspectives on education and citizenship', British Educational ... Davis, I., Gregory, I. and Riley, S. C. (1999) Good Citizenship and Educational Provision, London: Falmer Press.
American Visual Cultures

A major new textbook for students of contemporary American art and media, and modern American history. American Visual Cultures analyses the role of painting, photography, film, television, advertising, journalism and...
Encyclopedia of Percussion

A valuable resource for all music enthusiasts;The opening section of this first-stop reference source offers over 3,000 alphabetically arranged short definitions of percussion instruments and terms and is a valuable resource for the student ...
Percussion Matters: Life at the Eastman School of Music

Percussion Matters: Life at the Eastman School of Music
Graduate Citizens: Issues of Citizenship and Higher Education

Questioning the claim that the current generation of students is politically apathetic, this book shows that they are in fact socially concerned with, though distant from, official, mainstream politics.
Technocrats of the Imagination: Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde

In Technocrats of the Imagination John Beck and Ryan Bishop explore the collaborations between the American avant-garde art world and the military-industrial complex during the 1960s, in which artists worked with scientists and engineers in ...
American Visual Cultures

Illustrated throughout, the book combines a wide range of critical approaches and is made up of new essays by internationally renowned scholars.
Knowledge, Power and Educational Reform: Applying the Sociology of Basil Bernstein

This book is made up of a selection of writings from an international team of scholars, highlighting the contribution made to the field of educational policy and educational policy research by Basil Bernstein's work on the sociology of ...
Knowledge, Power and Educational Reform: Applying the Sociology of Basil Bernstein

This book is made up of a selection of writings from an international team of scholars, highlighting the contribution made to the field of educational policy and educational policy research by Basil Bernstein's work on the sociology of ...
Morality and Citizenship in Education

... Cox , B. ( 1991 ) Cox on Cox : An English Curriculum for the 1990s . London : Hodder and Stoughton . Cox , B. ( 1995 ) Cox on the Battle for the English Curriculum . London : Hodder and Stoughton . Cox , C. B. and Dyson , A. E. ( eds ) ( ...