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the [factory model school] myth exits because teaching and schooling is risk-averse, and because we argue based on metaphors: schools as factories, teachers as armies, schools as malls... knowing the accurate history frees us from the idea that schools cannot change. They can, and we are not the first generation to try. Nor will we be the last. [9]
In many countries, the term principal investigator (PI) refers to the holder of an independent grant and the lead researcher for the grant project, usually in the sciences, such as a laboratory study or a clinical trial. The phrase is also often used as a synonym for "head of the laboratory" or "research group leader".
William Bradford Wilcox (born 1970) is an American sociologist.He serves as director of the National Marriage Project and professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, [2] senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. [1]
Founded in 1981 by historians Herbert Gutman and Stephen Brier as the American-Working Class History Project, [1] the project grew out of a 1977–80 series of National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminars that introduced new social history scholarship to trade union members from diverse occupations and backgrounds, most of whom had no college experience. [2]
Bandyopadhyay is Emeritus Professor at Victoria University of Wellington and was the founding director of the New Zealand India Research Institute. [5] He has also taught at the Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, University of Kalyani, and the University of Calcutta. [6]
James Joseph Fox (born 29 May 1940) is an American anthropologist and historian of Indonesia.. He was educated at Harvard University (AB 1962) and Oxford University in (Social Anthropology)(B Litt. 1965, DPhil. 1968) where he was a Rhodes Scholar. [1]
Her father worked as a factory floor supervisor, and her mother was a high school teacher. West was the first in her family to attend university. [ 1 ] West holds a B.A. in art history and English from the College of William & Mary , in Virginia, and a Ph.D. (1986) in art history, specializing in European art and visual culture from the ...
Subsequent research yielded Hollywood, the Dream Factory (1950), the first and still the only substantial anthropological study of the film industry. She then worked documenting the mining industry and the consumption of American media in Northern Rhodesia ( Copper Town: Changing Africa , 1962).