Foundations of Educational Thought
1st Edition
Published on 8. April 2008
Book
Hardback
1624 pages
978-1-4129-4586-8 (ISBN)
Description
This landmark study brings together a comprehensive collection of readings on educational thought from antiquity to the present. It includes four volumes and over 100 different selections:
Volume 1: Classic/Early Modern (to 1945)
Volume 2: Modern (1945-1979)
Volume 3/4: Postmodern (1979-present)
From Montaigne to Chomsky, the editor has included articles from some of the western world's most influential educational thinkers alongside authoritative voices from the field to show a full spectrum of ideas about education, its purpose and objectives.
The first volume includes a lead essay by the editor on the nature of educational thought and the social and cultural foundations of education. Each volume also includes its own introduction.
Taken together, the volumes provide an unparalleled resource featuring broad coverage of the subject with historical depth and contemporary relevance. The set will enable students to effectively research their studies and will prove to be an invaluable resource for academics developing their research.
Volume 1: Classic/Early Modern (to 1945)
Volume 2: Modern (1945-1979)
Volume 3/4: Postmodern (1979-present)
From Montaigne to Chomsky, the editor has included articles from some of the western world's most influential educational thinkers alongside authoritative voices from the field to show a full spectrum of ideas about education, its purpose and objectives.
The first volume includes a lead essay by the editor on the nature of educational thought and the social and cultural foundations of education. Each volume also includes its own introduction.
Taken together, the volumes provide an unparalleled resource featuring broad coverage of the subject with historical depth and contemporary relevance. The set will enable students to effectively research their studies and will prove to be an invaluable resource for academics developing their research.
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Series
Edition
Four-Volume Set
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
2965 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4129-4586-8 (9781412945868)
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Content
Volume 1: Classic/Early Modern (Antiquity to 1945)
Editor's Introduction: Understanding the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education
Introduction to Volume 1 - Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr
Early Modern and Modern (to 1929)
Of Education - Michel de Montaigne
Of Custom and Education - Francis Bacon
Selection from The Great Didactic - Jan Amos Comenius
Of Education - John Milton
Selections from the Orbis Pictus Sensualium - Jan Amos Comenius
Selections from Some Thoughts Concerning Education - John Locke
The Education of Women - Daniel Defoe
Selection from The Spirit of Laws - Montesquieu
Selection from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
Selection from Emile - Jean Jacques Rousseau
Selection from Notes on the State of Virginia - Thomas Jefferson
Of the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic - Benjamin Rush
Selections from Leonard and Gertrude - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
On National Education - Mary Wollstonecraft
On Education - Johann Friedrich Herbart
An Address to the Public; Particularly to the Members of the Legislature of New York, Proposing a Plan for Improving Female Education - Emma Hart Willard
Selection from Improvements in Education, as It Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community - Joseph Lancaster
The Education of Human Nature - Frederick Froebel
Selection from the First Annual Report to the Massachusetts State Board of Education - Horace Mann
Report No. 12 of the Massachusetts School Board - Horace Mann
On Education - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Report of the Committee of Ten - National Education Association
My Pedagogic Creed - John Dewey
The Function of Education in Democratic Society - Charles W. Eliot
Psychology and the Art of Teaching - William James
Child Study and Its Relation to Education - G. Stanley Hall
Educational Methods - Jane Addams
On Education and Society - Emile Durkheim
Industrial Education for the Negro - Booker T. Washington
The Talented Tenth - W.E.B. Du Bois
The School and Social Progress - John Dewey
The Contribution of Psychology to Education - Edward L. Thorndike
History of Methods - Maria Montessori
The Uses of Intelligence Tests - Lewis M. Terman
A Modern School - Abraham Flexner
Aims in Education - John Dewey
The Project Method - William Heard Kilpatrick
The Problem of the School - Antonio Gramsci
The Aims of Education - Alfred North Whitehead
The American Experimental School - Harold Rugg
Volume 2: Modern (1932-1979)
Introduction to Volume 2: Modern (to 1979) - Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr
Selection from Dare the Schools Build a New Social Order - George S. Counts
Orientation - George S. Counts
On Education - Albert Einstein
The Crisis in Contemporary Education - Mortimer J. Adler
A Manifesto on Democracy and Education in the Current Crisis - Faculty of Teachers College, Columbia University
As We May Think - Vannevar Bush
The School in American Culture - Margaret Mead
The Tradition of the West - Robert M. Hutchins
Schools and Systems of Social Status - Howard S. Becker
The Role of Government in Education - Milton Friedman
Forward to A.S. Neill's Summerhill - Erich Fromm
A Talk to Teachers - James Baldwin
Vulnerability and Education - Jules Henry
Chapter 1, Life in Classrooms - Philip W. Jackson
Should the Teacher Always Be Neutral? - George S. Counts
Student Social Class and Teacher Expectations - Ray C. Rist
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in Ghetto Education
Why We Must Disestablish School - Ivan Illich
The Adult Literacy Process as Cultural Action for Freedom - Paulo Freire
The Process of Education Revisited - Jerome S. Bruner
Handle with Care - Harry F. Wolcott
Necessary Precautions in the Anthropology of Schooling
Unequal Education and the Reproduction of the Social Division of Labor - Samuel Bowles
Volunteerism to Bureaucracy in American Education - Michael Katz
Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction - Pierre Bourdieu
Public Education and the Education of the Public - Lawrence Cremin
The Means of Correct Training - Michel Foucault
Class and Pedagogies: Visible and Invisible - Basil Bernstein
Servitude of the Mind? Education, Dependency, and Neocolonialism - Philip G. Altbach
In Pursuit of Equity, Ethics, and Excellence: The Challenge to Close the Gap - Jesse L. Jackson
Can Our Schools Get Better? - John I. Goodlad
Volumes 3 and 4: Postmodern Educational Thought (1979-)
Introduction to Volume 3 and 4: Postmodern (1979 - ) - Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr
Introduction - Gregory Bateson
Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work - Jean Anyon
Curriculum as Cultural Reproduction: - C. A. Bowers
An Examination of Metaphor as a Carrier of Ideology
The Day Our Children Disappear - Neil Postman
Predictions of a Media Ecologist
A Concept of Power for Education - David Nynerg
Excluding Women from the Educational Realm - Jane Roland Martin
Bodyreading - Madeleine R. Grumet
Valuing Teachers - Linda Darling-Hammond
The Making of a Profession
Imagination and Learning - Kieran Egan
On Listening to What the Children Say - Vivian Gussin Paley
Teaching as Research - Eleanor Duckworth
In Search of a Critical Pedagogy - Maxine Greene
The Functions and Uses of Literacy - Shirley Brice Heath
The Silenced Dialogue - Lisa Delpit
Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children
Postmodernism and the Discourse of Educational Criticism - Henry Giroux
Metaphor and Meaning in the Language of Teachers - Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr., Gary N. McCloskey, Robert B. Kottkamp and Marilyn M. Cohn
The Violation of People at Work in Schools - Arthur G. Wirth
Multicultural Education as a Form of Resistance to Oppression - Christine E. Sleeter
Why Doesn't This Feel Empowering? Working Through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy - Elizabeth Ellsworth
Democratic Education in Difficult Times - Amy Gutmann
Post-Critical Pedagogies - Patti Lather
A Feminist Reading
Radical Pedagogy as Cultural Politics - Henry A. Giroux and Peter L. McLaren
Beyond the Discourse of Critique and Anti-Utopianism
The Three Curricula that all Schools Teach - Elliot W. Eisner
Feminist Politics in Radical Pedagogy - Carmen Luke
Dreamt Into Existence by Others - William Pinar
Curriculum Theory and School Reform
Educational Reform and the Ecology of Schooling - Elliot W. Eisner
Excellence as a Guide to Educational Conversation - Nel Noddings
Beyond the Methods Fetish - Lilia I. Bartolome
Toward a Humanizing Pedagogy
Democracy and Education - Noam Chomsky
Engaged Pedagogy - Bell Hooks
When Basic Skills and Information Processing Just Aren't Enough - Allan Luke
Rethinking Read in New Times
The Challenges of National Standards in a Multicultural Society - Cherry McGee Banks
Dancing with Bigotry - Lilia I. Bartolome and Donaldo P. Macedo
The Poisoning of Racial and Ethnic Identities
Rewriting the Discourse of Racial Identity - Henry A. Giroux
Towards a Pedagogy and Politics of Whiteness
The Death of Child Nature - David Elkind
Education in the Postmodern World
Theory Practice and the Education of Professionals - Lee S. Shulman
Curriculum, After Culture, Race, Nation - John Willinsky
Social Justice, Curriculum, and Spirituality - David E. Purpel
New Standards, Old Inequalities - Linda Darling-Hammond
The Current Challenge for African-American Education
Summary - Joel Spring
The Universal Right to Education
The Care Tradition: Beyond 'Add Women and Stir' - Nel Noddings
Toward an Eco-Justice Pedagogy - C.A. Bowers
Globalizing Education - Michael Singh, Jane Kenway and Michael W. Apple
Perspectives from Above and Below
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World - Vaclav Havel
Editor's Introduction: Understanding the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education
Introduction to Volume 1 - Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr
Early Modern and Modern (to 1929)
Of Education - Michel de Montaigne
Of Custom and Education - Francis Bacon
Selection from The Great Didactic - Jan Amos Comenius
Of Education - John Milton
Selections from the Orbis Pictus Sensualium - Jan Amos Comenius
Selections from Some Thoughts Concerning Education - John Locke
The Education of Women - Daniel Defoe
Selection from The Spirit of Laws - Montesquieu
Selection from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
Selection from Emile - Jean Jacques Rousseau
Selection from Notes on the State of Virginia - Thomas Jefferson
Of the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic - Benjamin Rush
Selections from Leonard and Gertrude - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
On National Education - Mary Wollstonecraft
On Education - Johann Friedrich Herbart
An Address to the Public; Particularly to the Members of the Legislature of New York, Proposing a Plan for Improving Female Education - Emma Hart Willard
Selection from Improvements in Education, as It Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community - Joseph Lancaster
The Education of Human Nature - Frederick Froebel
Selection from the First Annual Report to the Massachusetts State Board of Education - Horace Mann
Report No. 12 of the Massachusetts School Board - Horace Mann
On Education - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Report of the Committee of Ten - National Education Association
My Pedagogic Creed - John Dewey
The Function of Education in Democratic Society - Charles W. Eliot
Psychology and the Art of Teaching - William James
Child Study and Its Relation to Education - G. Stanley Hall
Educational Methods - Jane Addams
On Education and Society - Emile Durkheim
Industrial Education for the Negro - Booker T. Washington
The Talented Tenth - W.E.B. Du Bois
The School and Social Progress - John Dewey
The Contribution of Psychology to Education - Edward L. Thorndike
History of Methods - Maria Montessori
The Uses of Intelligence Tests - Lewis M. Terman
A Modern School - Abraham Flexner
Aims in Education - John Dewey
The Project Method - William Heard Kilpatrick
The Problem of the School - Antonio Gramsci
The Aims of Education - Alfred North Whitehead
The American Experimental School - Harold Rugg
Volume 2: Modern (1932-1979)
Introduction to Volume 2: Modern (to 1979) - Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr
Selection from Dare the Schools Build a New Social Order - George S. Counts
Orientation - George S. Counts
On Education - Albert Einstein
The Crisis in Contemporary Education - Mortimer J. Adler
A Manifesto on Democracy and Education in the Current Crisis - Faculty of Teachers College, Columbia University
As We May Think - Vannevar Bush
The School in American Culture - Margaret Mead
The Tradition of the West - Robert M. Hutchins
Schools and Systems of Social Status - Howard S. Becker
The Role of Government in Education - Milton Friedman
Forward to A.S. Neill's Summerhill - Erich Fromm
A Talk to Teachers - James Baldwin
Vulnerability and Education - Jules Henry
Chapter 1, Life in Classrooms - Philip W. Jackson
Should the Teacher Always Be Neutral? - George S. Counts
Student Social Class and Teacher Expectations - Ray C. Rist
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in Ghetto Education
Why We Must Disestablish School - Ivan Illich
The Adult Literacy Process as Cultural Action for Freedom - Paulo Freire
The Process of Education Revisited - Jerome S. Bruner
Handle with Care - Harry F. Wolcott
Necessary Precautions in the Anthropology of Schooling
Unequal Education and the Reproduction of the Social Division of Labor - Samuel Bowles
Volunteerism to Bureaucracy in American Education - Michael Katz
Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction - Pierre Bourdieu
Public Education and the Education of the Public - Lawrence Cremin
The Means of Correct Training - Michel Foucault
Class and Pedagogies: Visible and Invisible - Basil Bernstein
Servitude of the Mind? Education, Dependency, and Neocolonialism - Philip G. Altbach
In Pursuit of Equity, Ethics, and Excellence: The Challenge to Close the Gap - Jesse L. Jackson
Can Our Schools Get Better? - John I. Goodlad
Volumes 3 and 4: Postmodern Educational Thought (1979-)
Introduction to Volume 3 and 4: Postmodern (1979 - ) - Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr
Introduction - Gregory Bateson
Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work - Jean Anyon
Curriculum as Cultural Reproduction: - C. A. Bowers
An Examination of Metaphor as a Carrier of Ideology
The Day Our Children Disappear - Neil Postman
Predictions of a Media Ecologist
A Concept of Power for Education - David Nynerg
Excluding Women from the Educational Realm - Jane Roland Martin
Bodyreading - Madeleine R. Grumet
Valuing Teachers - Linda Darling-Hammond
The Making of a Profession
Imagination and Learning - Kieran Egan
On Listening to What the Children Say - Vivian Gussin Paley
Teaching as Research - Eleanor Duckworth
In Search of a Critical Pedagogy - Maxine Greene
The Functions and Uses of Literacy - Shirley Brice Heath
The Silenced Dialogue - Lisa Delpit
Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children
Postmodernism and the Discourse of Educational Criticism - Henry Giroux
Metaphor and Meaning in the Language of Teachers - Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr., Gary N. McCloskey, Robert B. Kottkamp and Marilyn M. Cohn
The Violation of People at Work in Schools - Arthur G. Wirth
Multicultural Education as a Form of Resistance to Oppression - Christine E. Sleeter
Why Doesn't This Feel Empowering? Working Through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy - Elizabeth Ellsworth
Democratic Education in Difficult Times - Amy Gutmann
Post-Critical Pedagogies - Patti Lather
A Feminist Reading
Radical Pedagogy as Cultural Politics - Henry A. Giroux and Peter L. McLaren
Beyond the Discourse of Critique and Anti-Utopianism
The Three Curricula that all Schools Teach - Elliot W. Eisner
Feminist Politics in Radical Pedagogy - Carmen Luke
Dreamt Into Existence by Others - William Pinar
Curriculum Theory and School Reform
Educational Reform and the Ecology of Schooling - Elliot W. Eisner
Excellence as a Guide to Educational Conversation - Nel Noddings
Beyond the Methods Fetish - Lilia I. Bartolome
Toward a Humanizing Pedagogy
Democracy and Education - Noam Chomsky
Engaged Pedagogy - Bell Hooks
When Basic Skills and Information Processing Just Aren't Enough - Allan Luke
Rethinking Read in New Times
The Challenges of National Standards in a Multicultural Society - Cherry McGee Banks
Dancing with Bigotry - Lilia I. Bartolome and Donaldo P. Macedo
The Poisoning of Racial and Ethnic Identities
Rewriting the Discourse of Racial Identity - Henry A. Giroux
Towards a Pedagogy and Politics of Whiteness
The Death of Child Nature - David Elkind
Education in the Postmodern World
Theory Practice and the Education of Professionals - Lee S. Shulman
Curriculum, After Culture, Race, Nation - John Willinsky
Social Justice, Curriculum, and Spirituality - David E. Purpel
New Standards, Old Inequalities - Linda Darling-Hammond
The Current Challenge for African-American Education
Summary - Joel Spring
The Universal Right to Education
The Care Tradition: Beyond 'Add Women and Stir' - Nel Noddings
Toward an Eco-Justice Pedagogy - C.A. Bowers
Globalizing Education - Michael Singh, Jane Kenway and Michael W. Apple
Perspectives from Above and Below
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World - Vaclav Havel