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Exploring Education: An Introduction to the Foundations of Education, 3/E
Alan R. Sadovnik, Adelphi University
Peter W. Cookson, Jr., Teachers College, Columbia University
Susan Semel

ISBN-10: 0205473598
ISBN-13: 9780205473595

Publisher: Merrill
Copyright: 2006
Format: Paper; 576 pp
Published: 09/14/2005
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Includes primary sources. • This text offers a point of view analysis of foundational topics paired with primary source readings. • The author addresses school organization and teaching, curriculum & pedagogical practices, education and inequality, and school reform and improvement.

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Acknowledgments

1. The Limits and Promises of Education: Toward Reflective Practitioners

Educational Problems

Understanding Education: The Foundations Perspective

The Foundations Perspective: A Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Approach

Critical Literacy and Empowerment: Toward the Active Voice of Teachers

2. The Politics of Education: Conservative, Liberal and Radical Perspectives

The Purposes of Schooling

Political Perspectives

From Political Perspectives to the Politics of Education

Lessons Learned from a Half-Century of Federal Policy Development

Christopher T. Cross

What “Counts” as Educational Policy? Notes toward a New Paradigm

Jean Anyon

3. The History of Education

Old World and New World Education: The Colonial Era

The Age of Reform: The Rise of the Common School

Urbanization and the Progressive Impetus

The Post-World War II Era: 1945-1980

Educational Reaction and Reform and the Standards Era: 1980s-2005

Understanding the History of U.S. Education

Different Historical Interpretations

Conclusion

Forgetting the Questions: The Problem of Educational Reform

Diane Ravitch

Popular Schooling

Lawrence A. Cremin

4. The Sociology of Education

The Uses of Sociology for Teachers

The Relation between School and Society

Effects of Schooling on Individuals

Inside the Schools

Education and Inequality

Sociology and the Current Educational Crisis

Japanese Education: A Durkheimian Ideal Type?

Roger Goodman

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 Serna

5. The Philosophy of Education and Its Significance for Teachers

The Perspective of Philosophy of Education

Particular Philosophies of Education

Conclusion

My Pedagogic Creed

John Dewey

Wide-Awakeness and the Moral Life

Maxine Green

The Ideal of the Educated Person

Jane Roland Martin

6. Schools as Organizations and Teacher Professionalization

The Structure of U.S. Education

International Comparisons

School Processes and School Cultures

Teachers, Teaching, and Professionalization

Contradictions of Reform

Linda M. McNeil

The TIMSS Videotape Study

James W. Stigler and James Hiebert

Is There Really A Teacher Shortage?

Richard M. Ingersoll

7. Curriculum, Pedagogy, and the Transmission of Knowledge

What Do the Schools Teach?

The History and Philosophy of the Curriculum

The Politics of the Curriculum

The Sociology of the Curriculum

Curriculum Theory and Practice: The Reconceptualization of Curriculum Studies

Pedagogic Practices: How the Curriculum Is Taught

The Philosophy of Teaching: Differing Views on Pedagogic Practices

The Stratification of the Curriculum

The Effects of the Curriculum: What Is Learned in Schools?

Conclusion

The Politics of a National Curriculum

Michael W. Apple

The Mimetic and the Transformative: Alternate Outlooks on Teaching

Philip W. Jackson

The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People’s Children

Lisa D. Delpit

8. Equality of Opportunity and Educational Outcomes

Calculating Educational and Life Outcomes

School Differences and Educational Outcomes

School Segregation

Educational Attainment and Economic Achievement

Education and Inequality: Mobility or Reproduction?

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

9. Explanations of Educational Inequality

Explanations of Unequal Educational Achievement

Student-Centered Explanations

School-Centered Explanations

Do Schools Reproduce Inequality?

Keeping Track, Part I: The Policy and Practice of Curriculum Inequality

Jeannie Oakes

Females + Mathematics= A complex Equation

Karen Karp

Social Class Differences in Family-School Relationships: The Importance of Cultural Capital

Annette Lareau

A Black Student’s Reflection on Public and Private Schools

Imani Perry

10. Educational Reform and School Improvement

Effective Teachers

Educational Reform from the 1980s to 2005

Federal Involvement in Education

A Theory of Educational Problems and Reforms

The Politics of School Choice Research: Fact, Fiction, and Statistics

Jeanne M. Powers and Peter W. Cookson, Jr.

Reinventing Teaching

Deborah Meier

A Level Playing Field

Catherine Gewertz

Appendix: Suggested Resources

References

Index

Social Foundations Education (Foundations / Intro to Teaching)
Introduction / Foundations of Education [CORE] (Foundations / Intro to Teaching)

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This text offers an alternative to traditional foundational texts by combining a point-of-view analysis with primary source readings. Pre-service and practicing 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.

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Incorporates primary source readings that reflect the most updated perspectives and data, giving students illustrations of concepts and providing opportunities for critical and reflective thinking.
Includes current achievement data representing the effects of educational reform.
Offers a point of view that balances realistic analysis of problems and solutions called the foundations perspective. This provides prospective teachers with a view of the opportunities and possibilities of school reform.
Discusses the separate foundations disciplines — politics, history, philosophy, sociology — that make up the foundations perspective giving students a base for understanding each of the foundations.
Addresses the interdisciplinary application of foundations disciplines to educational problems and solutions showing students the interdisciplinary nature of the foundations perspective.

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