Exploring education: an introduction to the foundations of education

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
1 The Limits and Promises of Education: Toward Reflective Practitioners
2 The Politics of Education: Conservative, Liberal, Radical, and
Neo-liberal Perspectives
Evidence Use and the Core Curriculum Standards Movement: From Problem Definition to Policy Adoption, Lorraine McDonnell and M. Stephen Weatherford
What "Counts" as Educational Policy? Notes Toward a New Paradigm, Jean Anyon
3 The History of Education
Empowerment and Education: Civil Rights, Expert Advocates, and Parent
Politics in Head Start, 1964-1980, Josh Kagan
Capital Accumulation, Class Conflict, and Educational Change, Samuel
4 The Sociology of Education
The School Class as a Social System Some of Its Functions in
American Society, Talcott Parsons
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
Conclusion
My Pedagogic Creed, John Dewey
Wide-Awakeness and the Moral Life, Maxine Greene
6 Schools as Organizations and Teacher Professionalization
The Structure of U.S. Education
Rich Land, Poor Schools: Inequality of National Educational Resources
and Achievement of Disadvantaged Students, David Baker and Gerald LeTendre, with Brian Goesling
What Do the National Data Tell Us About Minority Teacher Shortages,
7 Curriculum, Pedagogy, and the Transmission of Knowledge
The Politics of a National Curriculum, Michael W. Apple
The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People’s
Children, Lisa D. Delpit
8 Equality of Opportunity and Educational Outcomes
Class and the Classroom: Even the Best Schools Can’t Close the Race
Achievement Gap, Richard Rothstein
Fifty Years Since the Coleman Report: Rethinking the Relationship
between Schools and Inequality, Douglas B. Downey and Dennis J. Condron
A Social Constructionist Approach to Disability: Implications
for Special Education, Dimitris Anastasiou and James M. Kauffman
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, Jr., and Domini R. Castellino
How You Bully a Girl": Sexual Drama and the Negotiation of
Gendered Sexuality in High School, Sarah A. Miller
The Rules of the Game and the Uncertain Transmission of
Advantage: Middle-class Parents’ Search for an Urban
Kindergarten, Annette Lareau, Shani Adia Evans, and April Yee
A Black Student’s Reflection on Public and Private Schools, Imani Perry
10 Educational Reform and School Improvement
School Vouchers and Student Achievement: Reviewing the Research, David Trilling
A Critical Look at the Charter School Debate, Margaret E. Raymond
Ravitch-Tilson Debate, Diane Ravitch and Whitney Tilson
Appendix: Suggested Resources
Permissions
References
Index

This much-anticipated fifth 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 additions to the discussion of neo-liberal educational policy, recent debates about teacher diversity, updated data and research, and new selections of historical and contemporary readings.

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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