Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Cope, Bill / Feinberg, Walter, Arguments for Learning: An Intellectual History of the College of Education at the University of Illinois. 432 pp. 2025:3 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <742-850>
ISBN 978-0-252-04635-3 hard ¥7,507.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Almost every educational idea worth a thought has been considered at the University of Illinois, and anything worth trying has been tested. In this history of ideas, Bill Cope and Walter Feinberg chronicle the intellectual lives of education thinkers at the university while tracking the development of educational ideas and practices in general. Cope and Feinberg draw on conversations, narratives, and archival research that reveal how different generations explored their role in defining and carrying out the College's multifaceted mission. Their account raises critical questions about the character of learning, the aims of teaching, and the nature of teaching as a profession. At the same time, the authors address issues that range from the role of schools in fostering individual and collective identity to the introduction of computer-mediated and online learning. Cope and Feinberg examine changes in self-understanding about fundamental ideas and chart how the College evolved from its original narrow mission of training children's schoolteachers to embracing global perspectives. A wide-ranging portrait of an institution, Arguments for Learning uses the School of Education to tell the stories of thinkers dedicated to the idea that education can change the world for the better.

Rudenstine, Neil L., Our Contentious Universities: A Personal History. 312 pp. 2025:3 (American Philosophical Society Pr., US) <742-851>
ISBN 978-1-60618-007-5 hard ¥7,496.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

Suhrbur, Thomas J., Public Education and Social Reform: A History of the Illinois Education Association. 320 pp. 2025:3 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <742-852>
ISBN 978-0-252-04636-0 hard ¥26,812.- (税込) US$ 125.00
ISBN 978-0-252-08843-8 paper ¥6,435.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Founded in 1853, the Illinois Education Association (IEA) and its predecessors have played a vital role in shaping the Illinois public school system. Thomas J. Suhrbur's history covers the lifespan of the IEA within the larger story of state public education as a battleground for contentious social and economic issues. Suhrbur pays particular attention to the impact of race, gender, religion, and tax policy on the IEA and public schools. He also examines the IEA's evolution from a professional organization controlled by administrations and officials through its radical transformation into a teacher-led independent labor union. As a workers' organization, the IEA successfully fought for collective bargaining and organized K-12 and higher education while continually standing against right-wing efforts to privatize education and undermine public schools with vouchers, for-profit institutions, and tax credits. Multifaceted and up to date, Public Education and Social Reform tells the story of the organization and figures dedicated to sustaining and advancing Illinois public education.

Barker, Clyde F. / Barker, Elizabeth, Surgeons and Something More: The History of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. 592 pp. 2024:11 (American Philosophical Society Pr., US) <742-28>
ISBN 978-1-60618-020-4 hard ¥16,087.- (税込) US$ 75.00 *