Designed for Introduction to Teaching or Foundations of Education courses. Understanding the Landscape of Teaching is intended to help pre-service teachers understand the educational universe. This book provides opportunities for pre-service teachers to engage in conversations about teaching that are informed by current knowledge and professional wisdom. This book looks at teaching through six interconnected dimensions: Assumptions: Clarifying the Old and Exposing the New, Case Studies and Stories: Vignettes of Life in Schools, Teaching Qualities: Fundamental Considerations for Learning and Teaching, Current Research: Information for Thinking and Decision-Making, Knowledge: Essential for Professional Competence, Theory to Practice: Strategies and Ideas for Course or Group.

Understanding the Landscape of Teaching

Education & Teaching

WALDRON, PETER

Naested, Irene

Potvin, Bernard

Schools & Teaching

Pearson Education Canada

This book examines keyt hemes in the history of late imperial Russia.

The End of Imperial Russia: 1855-1917

History

Europe

Palgrave HE UK

The book examines key themes in the history of late imperial Russia. It looks at the political structures of the empire, the forces of opposition to the regime and the impact of reform in the 1860s. Even though concessions were wrung from the regime in the revolution of 1905, Tsarism proved powerful enough to reassert its authority and render the new parliament ineffective. Economic and social change were much more difficult for the state to manage and the book deals with the attempts at rural reform, analysing why they failed to bring fundamental change to the Russian countryside. As industrialization proceeded, Russian cities expanded and brought huge social change. Working people were to play a key role in eventually bringing an end to Tsarism. Russia was a multinational empire and the impact that the state's imperial ambitions had, both internally and on Russian foreign policy, are considered. It was the First World War which proved to be the midwife of revolution: between 1914 and 1917 the strains which had accumulated in Russia over the previous 60 years came to a head. The book concludes by analysing why the Tsarist regime failed to survive this great crisis.

The End of Imperial Russia, 1855-1917 (European History in Perspective)

Americas

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This book explores the long-term reasons for the demise of Imperial Russia, examining the failure of the autocratic state to strengthen its own political position while economic change transformed Russian society. It seeks to explain its debilitating internal tensions and to link these to the pressures exerted by Russia's repeated failure in war and by the empire's continuing expansion. Lastly, it analyzes what led to Russia being governed, only eight months after the collapse of Tsarism, by the Bolsheviks' revolutionary regime.

The End of Imperial Russia, 1855-1917

Business & Money

Economics

Palgrave

The Tsarist Empire posed unique problems to its rulers. Peter Waldron examines the challenges that faced them in terms of geography, culture, finance and military power, analysing the sources of the Russian Empire's strength and the reasons why the tsars were able to maintain their unlimited power for so long.

Governing Tsarist Russia (European History in Perspective)

Red Globe Press

The Tsarist Empire posed unique problems to its rulers. Peter Waldron examines the challenges that faced them in terms of geography, culture, finance and military power, analysing the sources of the Russian Empire's strength and the reasons why--when other European monarchies were forced to surrender authority--the tsars were able to maintain their unlimited power for so long.

Governing Tsarist Russia (European History in Perspective, 54)

History Files: This new paperback series presents the people, events, and ideas that shaped our past and made our present. Drawing upon the latest research, the books are abundantly illustrated with telling images from out-of-the-way sources, and offer the tangible fragments of vanished times in the form of loose-leaf facsimile documents that are included in the books. Between the seventeenth century and the 1917 revolution, the Russian Tsars became absolute rulers of the largest and most diverse empire in the world. The splendor of their court and their capital city, St. Petersburg, was extraordinary, but this imperial edifice was supported by the toil of millions of serfs tied to the land and brutally repressed. The vast majority of the people were uneducated, yet Russia produced writers, artists, and composers of world importance. The Tsars created a mighty army, but it failed them in the Crimea and in World War I. This empire of contradictions was to have a profound influence on both Europe and Asia. Peter Waldron tells the stories of all the Russians, exploring how the vastness of the empire and its extremes of climate affected the lives of rulers and peasants alike. He recounts how Peter the Great and later Tsars built the empire, and describes some of the individuals who worked for and against social change in Russia. Box features on specific people, places, and events and many quotations from Russian sources bring this saga vividly to life. The ten facsimile documents include a 1710 map of St. Petersburg, a newspaper report on the Crimean War, and the announcement of Nicholas II’s abdication in 1917. 133 illustrations, 89 in color, and 10 facsimile documents

Russia of the Tsars (History Files)

Russia

Thames&Hudson

Examines the program of reform that Russian prime minister Stolypin attempted to implement in the period 1906 to 1911, and seeks to explain the reasons for his failure. The author argues that the failure of Stolypin's attempt to drastically change the nature of agriculture and reform the most egregious examples of Tsarist despotism while maintaining the state intact was due to the following reasons: his position as an outsider to the apparatus of central government led him to attempt to recruit liberal figures to his government while underestimating the power of the traditional conservative elites; the changes in social structures caused by the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 and the process of industrialization had failed to be reflected in the political structure of Imperial Russia; and finally, the leaders failed to learn the lessons of the monarchical regimes in Europe, and truly believed that they could rule over an unreformed Russia. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Between Two Revolutions: Stolypin and the Politics of Renewal in Russia

Northern Illinois University Press

Antique silver is one of the oldest and best loved collecting subjects. At the top end of the quality scale, the work that went into making a fine piece was of an extremely high order. However, the majority of silver was used in the middle levels of British society and the collector has clearly to understand the varying qualities of production that he encounters if he is to buy well and avoid inferior pieces. In addition, the collector must understand what can happen to a piece during its lifetime. On the one hand it can acquire a supurb patination, and on the other, it can be dented, bent, broken, marked or even altered to enhance its apparent quality. The consideration of all these practical factors and many others is covered in this second edition. The pieces are arranged chronologically within each main subject heading so that developing styles may be clearly understood, while the 1100 photographs have been specially selected by the author.

Price Guide to Antique Silver (Price Guide Series)

Arts & Photography

Antique Collectors' Club

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Understanding the Landscape of Teaching

The End of Imperial Russia: 1855-1917

The End of Imperial Russia, 1855-1917 (European History in Perspective)

The End of Imperial Russia, 1855-1917 (European History in Perspective)

The End of Imperial Russia, 1855-1917

Governing Tsarist Russia (European History in Perspective)

Governing Tsarist Russia (European History in Perspective, 54)

Russia of the Tsars (History Files)

Between Two Revolutions: Stolypin and the Politics of Renewal in Russia

Price Guide to Antique Silver (Price Guide Series)