This work analyzes the ideas of traditional and non-traditional philosophers from Plato to Paulo Freire regarding the contribution of education to the creation of a democratic society. Each section is organized around an important theme (for example, whose schools transmit in a multicultural society?). The book is organized around the twin themes of a) the purpose(s) of education and b) power and control of education. Each section examines a major issue related to these themes. Since these two broad themes (and related issues) run through various courses, the book has relevance up and down the teacher education curriculum. Each section analyzes arguments regarding a perennial issue in education: Part 1 examines how education is used to maintain authoritarian and democratic governments; Part 2 explores arguments against government control of education; Part 3 analyzes arguments regarding the type of culture that schools should transmit; Part 4 covers arguments regarding the type of education women should receive; and Part 5 examines arguements regarding the political role of education in a global economy. The book is organized around the work of real theorists (past and present) and shows what they had to say about some perennial issue. Thus, while it does not involve students in doing philosophy, it should give them a feel for the real point of philosophy - the search for plausible answers to important questions.

Wheels in the Head: Educational Philosophies of Authority, Freedom, and Culture from Socrates to Paulo Freire

Education & Teaching

JOEL SPRING

Schools & Teaching

Mcgraw-Hill College

This work introduces students to the historical, political, social and legal foundations of education and to the profession of teaching. The text is designed to challenge students to analyze and to ask questions about the role of schooling in American society. It can be used either as a core text or as part of a larger teaching package. This edition features several new chapters. "Multicultural Education" contrasts the educational problems facing immigrants against those of dominated cultures such as Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans. Possible solutions are discussed, including ethnocentric education, issues of language, bicultural education and multicultural education. A new Chapter Five examines issues involving segregation and second-generation segregation and now includes, in addition to African Americans, a discussion of Native Americans, Mexican Americans and students with special needs. A new Chapter Four includes information on the interconnection between education, the new labour market and the global economy. Chapter Two now contains a discussion of teachers as researchers, the working conditions of teachers and teacher burnout. Also, Chapter Ten contains new sections on national standards for teachers and on critical pedagogy. Many new sections dealing with current restructuring efforts have been added to this edition, such as: charter schools, the educational bureaucracy, the politics of state education and the nationalization of state policies.

American Education

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Provides a background for understanding contemporary issues and problems in multi-cultural education. The dominated groups that it discusses include: Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans, while European-American culture is considered dominant. The book's analysis centres around the following three concepts: deculturalization; segregation; and the Civil Rights Movement.

Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality: A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States

Designed to be used in any course which is devoted wholly or partly to the study of multicultural education in the United States, this text provides a unique theme (intersecting cultures) from which to look at multicultural education issues. It's ongoing use of a few organizing concepts permit the kind of indepth analysis that will surely appeal to social foundations instructors and to multicultural education specialists.

The Intersection of Cultures: Multicultural Education in the United States

The fourth edition continues its mission of providing a history of American education that is not only comprehensive and up-to-date, but that stimulates critical thinking on the part of the reader. This is accomplished by lacing a clear, narrative writing style with 1. Alternative interpretations of each major historical period and 2. By using a critical perspective that analyses the social and economic implications of historical events.

The American School: 1642-1996

McGraw-Hill Companies

Test Bank to Accompany American Education

McGraw=Hill

American Education---now in its ninth edition---continues its mission of providing a fresh, concise, and up-to-date introduction to the historical, political, social, and legal foundations of education and to the profession of teaching. Organized by topic, the text integrates historical, sociological and philosophical questions throughout. Like previous editions, this one is notable for the way it challenges students and engages them in analysis and critical thinking about the role and purposes of schooling in American society. Revised every two years in order to guarantee current analysis of the very latest developments in today's educational issues, American Education's critical and broad scope makes it an ideal text for beginning and advanced study of today's schools. Clear, concise, and authoritative – compact and affordable, too – with scholarship that is often cited as a primary source, American Education brings up-to-date information and challenging perspectives to teacher educators' classrooms. All chapters were updated and the following new sections were added: Education, Income, Social Class and Race in the Global Economy; Issues About Human Capitalism; Current Issues in Teacher Education; Race and Social Class; The Economics of Racism; Defining Racism; The Changing Color of the United States; Race, Social Class, and Equal Educational Opportunities; Teaching About Racism; The Failure of Desegregation; Inclusion; Teachers Resist the Call for Inclusion; Immigrant Languages; Immigrants and Teachers; Home Schooling; and Student Violence and Federal Action: A Case Study.

Democratic Practice Workbook first examines democratic teaching philosophy and then provides concrete, step-by-step techniques for teachers to apply this philosophy to field observations and reflective teaching. No other text uses the philosophy behind democratic practice to inform the field experience. This brief, hands-on field observation/participation guide features specific suggestions for reflection during field observation and uses case studies to further illustrate how democratic principles can be exercised in the classroom. The text is designed with a complete resource set of focused observation forms for the student to use out in the field. It offers a complete guide for students’ term projects, multiple formats for classroom discussions, a model for curriculum development in democratic practice, and a beginning set of student written lesson plans.

Democratic Practice Workbook: Activities for the Field Experience

Caroline R. Pryor

Gary G. Bitter

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Political Studies, Education, American Studies

Conflict of Interests

Clear, concise, and authoritative, this book brings up-to-date information and challenging perspectives to teacher educators' classrooms.

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Wheels in the Head: Educational Philosophies of Authority, Freedom, and Culture from Socrates to Paulo Freire

American Education

Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality: A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States

The Intersection of Cultures: Multicultural Education in the United States

The American School: 1642-1996

Test Bank to Accompany American Education

American Education

Democratic Practice Workbook: Activities for the Field Experience

Conflict of Interests

American Education