Foundations of Education
Essential Texts and New Directions
1st Edition
Published on 11. October 2023
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-032-11187-2 (ISBN)
Description
* Only book available that provides truly extended selections from classic and contemporary foundational writings by the most widely taught authors.
* Organized around the separate foundations disciplines - politics, history, philosophy, sociology - that lay the basis for any serious study of education.
* A comprehensive introduction places the selections in historical, philosophical, cultural, and social contexts, and helps the reader to better understand their impact on educational practice past, present, and future.
* Questions for further study highlight selections' continued importance and application to today's most pressing educational issues
This book is unique in that it offers readers pieces that have been part of the cannon of social foundation texts and explores the new directions of social foundations of education. We believe that the work in the "new directions" section represents the kind of work that will be considered foundational pieces for the next generation of teachers and teacher educators. This book has been updated to meet the changing needs of teacher education programs. We have separated this work into two parts. Part 1 remains dedicated to exploring foundational pieces from well-known education scholars in the history, philosophy, politics, and sociology of education. Some of the original works remain part of the text, but others have been swapped out for works that are more relevant to today's conversation about education and schooling. We have added a whole new section, Part II, which looks at the new directions of conversations in U.S. education, which are not so easily siloed into one of these four fields. These include topics such as disability studies, critical race theory, gender studies, and culturally relevant pedagogy, etc.
* Organized around the separate foundations disciplines - politics, history, philosophy, sociology - that lay the basis for any serious study of education.
* A comprehensive introduction places the selections in historical, philosophical, cultural, and social contexts, and helps the reader to better understand their impact on educational practice past, present, and future.
* Questions for further study highlight selections' continued importance and application to today's most pressing educational issues
This book is unique in that it offers readers pieces that have been part of the cannon of social foundation texts and explores the new directions of social foundations of education. We believe that the work in the "new directions" section represents the kind of work that will be considered foundational pieces for the next generation of teachers and teacher educators. This book has been updated to meet the changing needs of teacher education programs. We have separated this work into two parts. Part 1 remains dedicated to exploring foundational pieces from well-known education scholars in the history, philosophy, politics, and sociology of education. Some of the original works remain part of the text, but others have been swapped out for works that are more relevant to today's conversation about education and schooling. We have added a whole new section, Part II, which looks at the new directions of conversations in U.S. education, which are not so easily siloed into one of these four fields. These include topics such as disability studies, critical race theory, gender studies, and culturally relevant pedagogy, etc.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-032-11187-2 (9781032111872)
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Persons
Susan F. Semel is a historian of education and is noted for her work on progressive education and women in leadership. She is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including The Dalton School, Schools of Tomorrow, Schools of Today, and Exploring Education.
Molly Vollman Makris is an associate professor and program coordinator of urban studies at Guttman Community College, CUNY. Her research areas include school choice, school integration, and gentrification. She is the coauthor of Gentrification Down the Shore and author of Public Housing and School Choice in a Gentrified City: Youth Experiences of Uneven Opportunity.
Cara Kronen is an associate professor in the Teacher Education Department at Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY and the coordinator for secondary education programs. She teaches educational foundations. Her research areas include urban education, teacher activism, and ways to increase the number of teachers of color.
Molly Vollman Makris is an associate professor and program coordinator of urban studies at Guttman Community College, CUNY. Her research areas include school choice, school integration, and gentrification. She is the coauthor of Gentrification Down the Shore and author of Public Housing and School Choice in a Gentrified City: Youth Experiences of Uneven Opportunity.
Cara Kronen is an associate professor in the Teacher Education Department at Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY and the coordinator for secondary education programs. She teaches educational foundations. Her research areas include urban education, teacher activism, and ways to increase the number of teachers of color.
Content
Introduction - Susan F. Semel with Molly V. Makris, and Cara Kronen; Part I: In The Quest for Equity: Foundations of Education; The History of Education; 1. A Long Shadow: The American Pursuit of Political Justice and Education Equality - James D. Anderson; 2. The Progressive Movement in American Education: A Perspective - Lawrence A. Cremin; The Politics of Education; 3. What "Counts" as Educational Policy? Notes toward a New Paradigm - Jean Anyon; 4. Toward a Politics of Disability: Definitions, disciplines, and policies - Harlan Hahn; The Sociology of Education; 5. Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification - Randall Collins; 6. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life - Annette Lareau; The Philosophy of Education; 7. Experience and Education 187 - John Dewey; 8. Wide-Awakeness and the Moral Life - Maxine Greene; Part II: In The Quest for Equity: New Directions; 9. Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education - Gloria Ladson-Billings and William F. Tate; 10. Re-imagining Multicultural Education: New Visions, New Possibilities - Sonia Nieto; 11. Preventing and Producing Violence: A Critical Analysis of Responses to School Violence - Pedro Noguera; 12. " But I'm not Gay": What Straight Teachers Need to Know about Queer Theory - Elizabeth J. Meyer; 13. Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced, and Underprotected - Kimberle W. Crenshaw; 14. Additional complexities: Social class, ethnicity, generation, and gender in Asian American student experiences - Stacey J. Lee; Questions for Further Discussion