As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. In arguing for what a true college education should be, the author shows why making it available to as many young people as possible remains central to America's democratic promise.
Delbanco explains how the idea of college arose in the colonial period from the Puritan idea of the gathered church, how it struggled to survive in the nineteenth century in the shadow of the new research universities, and how, in the twentieth century, it slowly opened its doors to women, minorities, and students from low-income families. He describes the unique strengths of America's colleges in our era of globalization and, while recognizing the growing centrality of science, technology, and vocational subjects in the curriculum, he mounts a vigorous defense of a broadly humanistic education for all. --from publisher description.

本书荣获2013年傅雷翻译出版奖（社科类）。
在中世纪，小孩几乎一断奶，就被当作“小大人”看待，他们混入成人中间，穿着与大人相仿的衣服，与其一起劳动、竞争、社交、玩耍。从中世纪末期以来，父母逐渐开始鼓励小孩与成人分离，以儿童及对儿童的保护和教育为中心的新的家庭观发展起来了。将童年时期视为一个最特殊的人生阶段，这个观 念自此扎根于现代西方思想之中，并席卷了整个现代世界，成为无可动摇的价值观。
阿利埃斯通过考察四个世纪的绘画和日记，以及游戏、礼仪、学校及其课程的演变来追溯儿童的历史。自1962年初版以来，本书在西方史学界引起了极大反响，被视为儿童史和家庭史的奠基之作。

A critical look at the nature and direction of English studies in America. It offers an intervention in debates about educational and cultural values and goals, showing how English came to occupy its present place in the American educational system.

A Ph. D. Is Not Enough! is required reading for anyone thinking of applying to graduate school or entering the science job market. Focusing on critical survival skills, it offers sound advice on selecting a thesis or postdoctoral adviser; choosing among research jobs in academia, government laboratories, and industry; and defining a research program. This new edition features updates throughout and a new chapter reflecting todays rapidly changing world.

Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century. But how can we use digital media so that they make us empowered participants rather than passive receivers, grounded, well-rounded people rather than multitasking basket cases? In Net Smart, cyberculture expert Howard Rheingold shows us how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully. Mindful use of digital media means thinking about what we are doing, cultivating an ongoing inner inquiry into how we want to spend our time. Rheingold outlines five fundamental digital literacies, online skills that will help us do this: attention, participation, collaboration, critical consumption of information (or "crap detection"), and network smarts. He explains how attention works, and how we can use our attention to focus on the tiny relevant portion of the incoming tsunami of information. He describes the quality of participation that empowers the best of the bloggers, netizens, tweeters, and other online community participants; he examines how successful online collaborative enterprises contribute new knowledge to the world in new ways; and he teaches us a lesson on networks and network building. Rheingold points out that there is a bigger social issue at work in digital literacy, one that goes beyond personal empowerment. If we combine our individual efforts wisely, it could produce a more thoughtful society: countless small acts like publishing a Web page or sharing a link could add up to a public good that enriches everybody.

The central claim of Measuring the Mind is that, contrary to popular opinion, the psychologists who dominated educational policy-making between the wars were educational progressives and political radicals. They argued that education should reflect the requirements of children rather than the convenience of adults, and regarded intelligence testing as an instrument of child-centred education. These psychologists owed their political inspiration to the meritocratic ideal and lost popularity with the waning of this ideal after the war. Four main themes dominate the discussion: the emergence of educational psychology as a distinct discipline; the recent history of ideas about children's mental development; the role of experts in formulating educational policy; and the rise and fall of the measurement of merit.

A study of Robert Lowe (1811-1892), a philosophical radical in the utilitarian tradition, educationalist and politician. He held a number of government positions, and as vice-president of the Committee of Council on Education (1859-1864) he introduced the controversial 'payment by results' scheme, 'results' being measured by examinations and constituting the pre-condition for the payment of State grants. Mr Sylvester assesses Lowe's career and political importance, and argues for a reconsideration of his somewhat reactionary reputation.

《文章作法》由开明书店初版于1922年。其原型是夏丐尊先生在长沙第一师范和白马湖春晖中学的讲义稿，后经教育家刘薰宇先生结合自己的教学实践修改编辑而最后成书。本书为2007年最新版。
书中总结了记叙文、说明文、议论文等类文章的具体写作方法，解答了如何通过写作篇幅短小形式多样的小品文等方法迅速提高写作能力等实际问题，并通过对鲁迅、冰心等名家名作的简明评点，对写作中常遇到的问题给予了精辟独到的意见。

本书汇集了叶圣陶先生传授写作经验和技巧的文章二十一篇。回答了写好文章需要做哪些准备、该怎样组织安排文章的结构、如何开头如何结尾、如何议论如何抒情、什么样的文章算是好文章、文章该如何修改等问题。此外，还从生活需要而非应试教育的角度，对老师怎样教、学生怎样学等问题，给予了精辟的建议。相信不仅是学生，只要是想写点什么的人都可以从中受益。

The author of the bestseller Freud presents a close examination of the aggression--and debate about aggression--that raged through the Victorian Age. Gay looks at the works of such figures as Theodore Roosevelt and Nietzsche to present penetrating new insights.

The 19th century was intensely preoccupied with the self, to the point of neurosis. During the decades of the most sustained campaign for mastery of the world, the bourgeois devoted much time to introspection. This book, fourth in a series of five, deals with the inner life and charts this struggle for inwardness. Philosophers from Hegel to Nietzsche, psychologists like Wundt and Charcot, and Marx and Freud are included, but it is the ordinary bourgeois who occupy centre stage.