Exploring Education
An Introduction to the Foundations of Education
4th Edition
Published on 3. January 2013
Book
Hardback
644 pages
978-0-415-80862-0 (ISBN)
Description
This much-anticipated fourth edition of Exploring Education offers an alternative to traditional foundations texts by combining a point-of-view analysis with primary source readings. Pre- and in-service 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. This edition features substantive updates, including the addition of discussion on the neo-liberal educational policy and recent debates about teacher evaluation, updated data and research, and new readings by leading researchers, such as Diane Ravitch, Robert Dreeben, and Helen F. Ladd.
At a time when foundations of education are marginalized in many teacher education programs and teacher education reform pushes scripted approaches to curriculum and instruction, Exploring Education helps teachers to think critically about the "what" and "why" behind the most pressing issues in contemporary education.
At a time when foundations of education are marginalized in many teacher education programs and teacher education reform pushes scripted approaches to curriculum and instruction, Exploring Education helps teachers to think critically about the "what" and "why" behind the most pressing issues in contemporary education.
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Edition
4th New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
1352 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-80862-0 (9780415808620)
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Alan R. Sadovnik | Peter Cookson, Jr. | Susan Semel
Exploring Education
An Introduction to the Foundations of Education
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Alan R. Sadovnik | Peter W. Cookson, Jr. | Susan F. Semel
Exploring Education
An Introduction to the Foundations of Education
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02/2013
4th Edition
Routledge
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Persons
Alan R. Sadovnik is Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of Education, Sociology, and Public Administration and Affairs at Rutgers University, USA.
Peter W. Cookson, Jr. teaches at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA, and is President of Ideas without Borders in Washington, DC, USA.
Susan F. Semel is Professor of Education and Chair of the Department of Secondary Education at the City College of New York, USA.
Peter W. Cookson, Jr. teaches at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA, and is President of Ideas without Borders in Washington, DC, USA.
Susan F. Semel is Professor of Education and Chair of the Department of Secondary Education at the City College of New York, USA.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 The Limits and Promises of Education: Toward Reflective Practitioners
Chapter 2 The Politics of Education: Conservative, Liberal, Radical, and Neo-liberal Perspectives
HIJACKED! How the Standards Movement Turned into the Testing Movement, Diane Ravitch
What "Counts" as Educational Policy? Notes toward a New Paradigm, Jean Anyon
Chapter 3 The History of Education
Popular Schooling, Lawrence A. Cremin
Capital Accumulation, Class Conflict, And Educational Change, Samuel Bowles And Herbert Gintis
Chapter 4 The Sociology of Education
The Contribution of Schooling to the Learning of Norms, Robert Dreeben
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 Sena
Chapter 5 The Philosophy of Education and Its Significance for Teachers
My Pedagogic Creed, John Dewey
Wide-Awakeness and the Moral Life, Maxine Greene
The Ideal of the Educated Person, Jane Roland Martin
Chapter 6 Schools as Organizations and Teacher Professionalization
Contradictions of Reform, Linda M. McNeil
Rich Land, Poor Schools, David Baker And Gerald Letendre
Is The Supply Of Mathematics And Science Teachers Sufficient? Richard M. Ingersoll And David Perda
Chapter 7 Curriculum, Pedagogy, and the Transmission of Knowledge
The Politics of a National Curriculum, Michael W. Apple
The Mimetic and the Transformative: Alternative Outlooks on Teaching, Philip W. Jackson
The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children, Lisa D. Delpit
Chapter 8 Equality of Opportunity and Educational Outcomes
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
Chapter 9 Explanations of Educational Inequality
It's Not "a Black Thing": Understanding the Burden of Acting White and Other Dilemmas of High Achievement, Karolyn Tyson, William Darity, and Domini Castellino
Gender Inequalities in Education, Claudia Buchman, Thomas A. Diprete, and Anne McDaniel
From social ties to social capital: Class differences in the relations between schools and parents networks, Erin McNamar Horvat, Elliot B. Weininger, and Annette Lareau
A Black Student's Reflection on Public and Private Schools, Imani Perry
Chapter 10 Educational Reform and School Improvement
A Few Thoughts on Making This Work, Frederick Hess
Education and Poverty: Confronting the Evidence, Helen F. Ladd
The Politics of School Reform: A Broader and Bolder Approach for Newark, Pedro Noguera and Lauren Wells
Appendix: Suggested Resources
References
Index
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 The Limits and Promises of Education: Toward Reflective Practitioners
Chapter 2 The Politics of Education: Conservative, Liberal, Radical, and Neo-liberal Perspectives
HIJACKED! How the Standards Movement Turned into the Testing Movement, Diane Ravitch
What "Counts" as Educational Policy? Notes toward a New Paradigm, Jean Anyon
Chapter 3 The History of Education
Popular Schooling, Lawrence A. Cremin
Capital Accumulation, Class Conflict, And Educational Change, Samuel Bowles And Herbert Gintis
Chapter 4 The Sociology of Education
The Contribution of Schooling to the Learning of Norms, Robert Dreeben
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 Sena
Chapter 5 The Philosophy of Education and Its Significance for Teachers
My Pedagogic Creed, John Dewey
Wide-Awakeness and the Moral Life, Maxine Greene
The Ideal of the Educated Person, Jane Roland Martin
Chapter 6 Schools as Organizations and Teacher Professionalization
Contradictions of Reform, Linda M. McNeil
Rich Land, Poor Schools, David Baker And Gerald Letendre
Is The Supply Of Mathematics And Science Teachers Sufficient? Richard M. Ingersoll And David Perda
Chapter 7 Curriculum, Pedagogy, and the Transmission of Knowledge
The Politics of a National Curriculum, Michael W. Apple
The Mimetic and the Transformative: Alternative Outlooks on Teaching, Philip W. Jackson
The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children, Lisa D. Delpit
Chapter 8 Equality of Opportunity and Educational Outcomes
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
Chapter 9 Explanations of Educational Inequality
It's Not "a Black Thing": Understanding the Burden of Acting White and Other Dilemmas of High Achievement, Karolyn Tyson, William Darity, and Domini Castellino
Gender Inequalities in Education, Claudia Buchman, Thomas A. Diprete, and Anne McDaniel
From social ties to social capital: Class differences in the relations between schools and parents networks, Erin McNamar Horvat, Elliot B. Weininger, and Annette Lareau
A Black Student's Reflection on Public and Private Schools, Imani Perry
Chapter 10 Educational Reform and School Improvement
A Few Thoughts on Making This Work, Frederick Hess
Education and Poverty: Confronting the Evidence, Helen F. Ladd
The Politics of School Reform: A Broader and Bolder Approach for Newark, Pedro Noguera and Lauren Wells
Appendix: Suggested Resources
References
Index