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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.* Addresses the interdisciplinary application of foundations disciplines to educational problems and solutions showing students the interdisciplinary nature of the foundations perspective.Package this text with MyLabSchool--a powerful set of online tools that bring the classroom to life! Visit www.mylabschool.com for more information!

Table of Contents:
<>Preface Acknowledgments   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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780205473595
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Pearson
  • Height: 192 mm
  • No of Pages: 576
  • Sub Title: An Introduction to the Foundations of Education
  • Width: 236 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0205473598
  • Publisher Date: 16 Feb 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 966 gr


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