Education and the USA
Edited by Laurenz Volkmann
Hardback (Published)
(July 2011)
ISBN: 9783825359188
5.28 x 8.27 inches
Price: $61.00
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The present volume explores the ramifications of the American education system and its representations in various media. It opens up new vistas on controversial transatlantic debates on education in the USA, critically reflecting on historical and contemporary developments in the USA and their impact on European perceptions of a model which for many seems worth emulating. The first section of contributions offers fresh perspectives on political, social, and theoretical concepts of higher education in the USA, specifically targeting issues such as diversity, political objectives, and ideological controversies with regard to education. The second section offers a discussion of important, though sometimes neglected, historical aspects and tendencies within the American system of education. The third section focuses on literary and media representations of education in the USA. In addition, a fourth section highlights the German perspective with a special emphasis on problems of didactic conceptualization and selection of US-relevant teaching matters and materials. The contributions by fourteen experts from this field represent a choice selection of papers presented at the 2009 Jena conference of the German Association of American Studies.
- Edited by Laurenz Volkmann
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Poetics of Politics
Textuality and Social Relevance in Contemporary American Literature and Culture
Volume 258
Temple Grandin and the Mediation of Autism Debates at the Interface between Life Writing and the Life Sciences
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Re-Imagining Nature’s Nation
Native American and Native Hawaiian Literature, Environment, and Empire
Volume 267
Aesthetics & Ethics
Otherness and Moral Imagination from Aristotle to Levinas and from 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' to 'House Made of Dawn
Volume 163
Weird American Music
Case Studies of Underground Resistance, BarlowGirl, Jackalope, Charles Ives, and Waffle House Music
Volume 299
Betwixt, between, or beyond?
Negotiating 'Trans' formations from the Liminal Sphere of Contemporary Black Performance Poetry
Volume 215
Ausgestellte Welt
Formationsprozesse kultureller Identitat in den Texten zur Chicago World's Columbian Exposition. (1893)
Volume 91
Aesthetic Innovation and the Democratic Principle
Essays on Twentieth-Century American Poetry and Fiction
Volume 279
And Then the Child Becomes a Woman
Weibliche Initiation in der amerikanischen Kurzgeschichte 1865-1970
Volume 110
Seeing and Perceiving
Synesthetic Perception, Embodied Intersubjectivity, and Gender Masquerade in Siri Hustvedt's Works
Volume 311
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