This text offers an alternative to traditional foundational texts by combining a point-of-view analysis with primary source readings. Pre-service and practicing teachers will find a solid introduction to the foundations disciplines -- history, philosophy, politics, and sociology of education -- and their application to educational issues including school organization and teaching, curriculum and pedagogic practices, education and inequality, and school reform and improvement. Features: *Incorporates primary source readings that reflect the most updated perspectives and data, giving students illustrations of concepts and providing opportunities for critical and reflective thinking. *Includes current achievement data representing the effects of educational reform. *Offers a point of view that balances realistic analysis of problems and solutions called the foundations perspective. This provides prospective teachers with a view of the opportunities and possibilities of school reform. *Discusses the separate foundations disciplines -- politics, history, philosophy, sociology -- that make up the foundations perspective giving students a base for understanding each of the foundations.*
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Table of Contents:
<>PrefaceAcknowledgments
1. The Limits and Promises of Education: Toward Reflective Practitioners
Educational Problems
Understanding Education: The Foundations Perspective
The Foundations Perspective: A Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Approach
Critical Literacy and Empowerment: Toward the Active Voice of Teachers
2. The Politics of Education: Conservative, Liberal and Radical Perspectives
The Purposes of Schooling
Political Perspectives
From Political Perspectives to the Politics of Education
Lessons Learned from a Half-Century of Federal Policy Development
Christopher T. Cross
What “Counts” as Educational Policy? Notes toward a New Paradigm
Jean Anyon
3. The History of Education
Old World and New World Education: The Colonial Era
The Age of Reform: The Rise of the Common School
Urbanization and the Progressive Impetus
The Post-World War II Era: 1945-1980
Educational Reaction and Reform and the Standards Era: 1980s-2005
Understanding the History of U.S. Education
Different Historical Interpretations
Conclusion
Forgetting the Questions: The Problem of Educational Reform
Diane Ravitch
Popular Schooling
LawrenceA. Cremin
4. The Sociology of Education
The Uses of Sociology for Teachers
The Relation between School and Society
Effects of Schooling on Individuals
Inside the Schools
Education and Inequality
Sociology and the Current Educational Crisis
Japanese Education: A Durkheimian Ideal Type?
Roger Goodman
On Understanding the Processes of Schooling: The Contributions of Labeling Theory
Ray C. Rist
The Politics of Culture: Understanding Local Political Resistance to Detracking in Racially Mixed Schools
Amy Stuart Wells and Irene Serna
5. The Philosophy of Education and Its Significance for Teachers
The Perspective of Philosophy of Education
Particular Philosophies of Education
Conclusion
My Pedagogic Creed
John Dewey
Wide-Awakeness and the Moral Life
Maxine Green
The Ideal of the Educated Person
Jane Roland Martin
6. Schools as Organizations and Teacher Professionalization
The Structure of U.S. Education
International Comparisons
School Processes and School Cultures
Teachers, Teaching, and Professionalization
Contradictions of Reform
Linda M. McNeil
The TIMSS Videotape Study
James W. Stigler and James Hiebert
Is There Really A Teacher Shortage?
Richard M. Ingersoll
7. Curriculum, Pedagogy, and the Transmission of Knowledge
What Do the Schools Teach?
The History and Philosophy of the Curriculum
The Politics of the Curriculum
The Sociology of the Curriculum
Curriculum Theory and Practice: The Reconceptualization of Curriculum Studies
Pedagogic Practices: How the Curriculum Is Taught
The Philosophy of Teaching: Differing Views on Pedagogic Practices
The Stratification of the Curriculum
The Effects of the Curriculum: What Is Learned in Schools?
Conclusion
The Politics of a National Curriculum
Michael W. Apple
The Mimetic and the Transformative: Alternate Outlooks on Teaching
Philip W. Jackson
The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People’s Children
Lisa D. Delpit
8. Equality of Opportunity and Educational Outcomes
Calculating Educational and Life Outcomes
School Differences and Educational Outcomes
School Segregation
Educational Attainment and Economic Achievement
Education and Inequality: Mobility or Reproduction?
Class and the Classroom: Even the Best Schools Can’t Close the Race Achievement Gap
Richard Rothstein
Chartering and Bartering: Elite Education and Social Reproduction
Caroline Hodges Persell and Peter W. Cookson, Jr.
College-for-All: Do Students Understand What College Demands?
James E. Rosenbaum
9. Explanations of Educational Inequality
Explanations of Unequal Educational Achievement
Student-Centered Explanations
School-Centered Explanations
Do Schools Reproduce Inequality?
Keeping Track, Part I: The Policy and Practice of Curriculum Inequality
Jeannie Oakes
Females + Mathematics= A complex Equation
Karen Karp
Social Class Differences in Family-School Relationships: The Importance of Cultural Capital
Annette Lareau
A Black Student’s Reflection on Public and Private Schools
Imani Perry
10. Educational Reform and School Improvement
Effective Teachers
Educational Reform from the 1980s to 2005
Federal Involvement in Education
A Theory of Educational Problems and Reforms
The Politics of School Choice Research: Fact, Fiction, and Statistics
Jeanne M. Powers and Peter W. Cookson, Jr.
Reinventing Teaching
Deborah Meier
A Level Playing Field
Catherine Gewertz
Appendix: Suggested Resources
References
Index
