
Foundations of Education
Problems and Possibilities in American Education
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Published on 30. June 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
440 pages
978-1-4411-4095-1 (ISBN)
Description
This is a fully integrated and interdisciplinary textbook introducing students to the key issues in American education, and applying historical, philosophical, and sociological approaches throughout. "Foundations of Education" is organized around the major problems facing contemporary American education. It offers a thorough, scholarly treatment of these problems from historical, philosophical, and sociological perspectives, bringing together relevant findings from those disciplines to analyze and illuminate a wide range of issues. Each chapter focuses on a core topic (including race, gender, equal opportunities, and school governance) to give students a solid overview, providing intellectually sound material that offers real depth and challenges students to think creatively. Packed with exercises, discussion questions, international case studies for comparative purposes and supported by a fully up-to-date companion website, this is a text that responds to current developments, changes, and trends in teacher education.
"Foundations of Education" will prepare a new generation of educators for a globalized and technology-driven society that needs to be aware of its best educational traditions, its current problems and its future possibilities.
"Foundations of Education" will prepare a new generation of educators for a globalized and technology-driven society that needs to be aware of its best educational traditions, its current problems and its future possibilities.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
664 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-4095-1 (9781441140951)
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Additional editions

Samuel M. Craver | Maike Ingrid Philipsen
Foundations of Education
Problems and Possibilities in American Education
E-Book
06/2011
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Continuum
€44.99
Available for download

Samuel M. Craver | Maike Ingrid Philipsen
Foundations of Education
Problems and Possibilities in American Education
E-Book
06/2011
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Continuum
€44.99
Available for download
Persons
Samuel M. Craver is Professor Emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the co-author, with Howard Ozmon, of Philosophical Foundations of Education, 8th Edition (Prentice Hall, 2007). Maike Ingrid Philipsen is Professor in Foundations of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has taught social foundations courses at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels since 1993. She is the author of Challenges of the Faculty Career for Women (Jossey Bass, 2008).
Content
Preface; 1. Teaching as a Profession; 2. School Governance and Control; 3. Equal Educational Opportunity; 4. Social Class and Education; 5. Race and the Education of African Americans; 6. Ethnicity and Education; 7. Gender and Education; 8. Education of People with Disabilities; 9. Religion and Education.