Disconnected Rivers
Linking Rivers to Landscapes
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2008
320 pages
978-0-300-12746-1 (ISBN)
Description
American schools of education get little respect. They are portrayed as intellectual wastelands, as impractical and irrelevant, as the root cause of bad teaching and inadequate learning. In this book a sociologist and historian of education examines the historical developments and contemporary factors that have resulted in the unenviable status of ed schools, offering valuable insights into the problems of these beleaguered institutions. David F. Labaree explains how the poor reputation of the ed school has had important repercussions, shaping the quality of its programmes, its recruitment, and the public response to the knowledge it offers. He notes the special problems faced by ed schools as they prepare teachers and produce research and researchers. And he looks at the consequences of the ed school's attachment to educational progressivism. Throughout these discussions, Labaree maintains an ambivalent position about education schools, admiring their dedication and critiquing their mediocrity, their romantic rhetoric, and their compliant attitudes.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Why Should We Care About Rivers?
- American Rivers
- The Physical River System
- River Regions
- The River Ecosystem
- Humans and Rivers
- Conquering a New World: Pioneer Impacts
- Placer Mining
- Mining in California
- Birds That Swim in Rivers
- Poisoning America: Commercial Impacts
- Rivers That Burn
- The State of Our Nation's Rivers
- The Great Lakes Region Today
- Hellbenders, Allegheny Alligators, and Devil Dogs
- Institutional Conquest: Bureaucratic Impacts
- Reconsidering Dams
- More "Efficient" Rivers: Channelization
- The Downside of Efficiency
- The DEC Project: Boondoggle or Salvation?
- A Beaver-Tailed Fish
- Trying to Do the Right Thing: Rehabilitation Impacts
- Nothing New Under the Sun
- Reconsidering Earlier Assumptions
- Bringing Back a River of Grass
- Gravel Worms
- Thinking in Terms of Rivers
- Endangered U.S. Rivers
- Connections
- Personal Choices
- Collective Actions
- Notes
- Index
