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| Preface | |
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| Educational Aims in Historical Perspective | |
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| Introduction: Understanding School and Society | |
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| Introduction: Conducting Inquiry into School and Society | |
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| The Place of Social Foundations in Teacher Education | |
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| The Meaning of Democracy in Educational Practice | |
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| Education of Diverse Students | |
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| Tools of Inquiry | |
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| Social Theory | |
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| Schooling | |
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| Training | |
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| Education | |
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| Political Economy | |
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| Ideology | |
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| Analytic Framework | |
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| Applying the Terms of Inquiry: An Illustration from History | |
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| Schooling and Culture in Classical Greece | |
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| Building a Philosophy of Education | |
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| Primary Source Reading: The Politics of Aristotle | |
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| Developing Your Professional Vocabulary | |
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| Questions for Discussion and Examination | |
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| Online Resources | |
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| Liberty and Literacy: The Jeffersonian Ideal | |
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| Introduction: Why Jefferson? | |
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| Political Economy of the Jeffersonian Era | |
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| Geography, Transportation, and Communication | |
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| Early American Governance | |
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| Ideology of the Jeffersonian Era | |
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| The Breakdown of Feudalism | |
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| The Classical Roots of Liberal Ideology | |
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| Jefferson as Classical Liberal | |
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| Jefferson and Intellectual Freedom | |
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| Jefferson, Democracy, and Education | |
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| Government by a "Natural Aristocracy" | |
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| Jefferson's Plan for Popular Education | |
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| Elementary School Districts | |
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| Grammar Schools | |
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| University Education | |
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| Self-Education | |
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| Jefferson's Views on Slavery, Native Americans, and Women | |
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| Building a Philosophy of Education | |
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| Primary Source Reading: From the Rights of Man | |
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| Primary Source Reading: Exchange between Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson | |
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| Developing Your Professional Vocabulary | |
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| Questions for Discussion and Examination | |
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| Online Resources | |
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| School as a Public Institution: The Common-School Era | |
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| Introduction: Schooling in New England | |
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| Political Economy of the Common-School Era | |
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| Demographic Changes | |
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| Political Developments | |
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| Economic Developments | |
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| Ideology and Religion | |
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| Consolidation of Classical Liberalism | |
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| Horace Mann: An Exemplar of Reform | |
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| Early Life | |
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| Mann's Political Career | |
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| Mann and the Common Schools | |
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| School Buildings | |
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| Moral Values | |
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| Lessons from the Prussian School System | |
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| School Discipline and the Pedagogy of Love | |
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| The Quality of Teachers | |
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| The Economic Value of Schooling | |
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| Opposition to Mann's Common-School Reforms | |
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| Accounting for the Success of the Common-School Reforms | |
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| Lessons from Horace Mann's Common-School Reforms | |
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| Building a Philosophy of Education | |
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| Primary Source Reading: Decentralization: Alternative to Bureaucracy? | |
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| Developing Your Professional Vocabulary | |
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| Questions for Discussion and Examination | |
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| Online Resources | |
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| Social Diversity and Differentiated Schooling: The Progressive Era | |
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| Introduction: "Traditional" versus "Progressive" Education | |
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| The Political Economy of the Progressive Era | |
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| Urbanization | |
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| Immigration | |
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| Industrialization | |
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| Worker Responses to Industrial Management | |
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| New Liberal Ideology | |
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| Natural Law | |
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| Scientific Rationality | |
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| From Virtue to Rational Ethics | |
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| Progress | |
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| Nationalism | |
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| Freedom | |
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| Progressive Education | |
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| Two Strands of Progressivism: Developmental Democracy and Social Efficiency | |
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| Deweyan Developmental Democracy | |
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| The Nature of the Child | |
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| A Unique Meaning for Progressive Education | |
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| Charles W. Eliot and Social Efficiency | |
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| Building a Philosophy of Education | |
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| Primary Source Reading: Education and Social Change | |
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| Developing Your Professional Vocabulary | |
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| Questions for Discussion and Examination | |
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| Online Resources | |
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| Diversity and Equity: Schooling Girls and Women | |
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| Introduction: Why a Separate Chapter on Females? | |
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| Ideological Origins in Early Christianity | |
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| Gender and Education in Colonial America | |
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| Private Schools | |
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| The Revolution and the Cult of Domesticity | |
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| Competing Ideological Perspectives in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| The Conservative and Liberal Positions | |
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| The Radical Position | |
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| Catharine Beecher: The Liberal Education of the Homemaker | |
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| Ideology and Life: Emma Willard | |
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| A New Vision for Women's Education | |
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| The Troy Female Seminary | |
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| Anna Julia Cooper | |
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| Higher Education for Women | |
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| Academies | |
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| Normal Schools | |
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| High Schools | |
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| Colleges | |
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| Women and Vocational Education | |
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| Domestic Science Training | |
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| Commercial Education | |
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| Building a Philosophy of Education | |
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| Primary Source Reading: Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions | |
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| Primary Source Reading: The Education of the Girl | |
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| Developing Your Professional Vocabulary | |
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| Questions for Discussion and Examination | |
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| Online Resources | |
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| Diversity and Equity: Schooling and African Americans | |
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| Introduction: Common Schools in the South | |
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| Political-Economic Dimensions of Reconstruction and Redemption | |
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| Redemption | |
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| Reconstruction, Redemption, and African American Schooling | |
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| Schooling in the Black Belt | |
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| Booker T. Washington's Career | |
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| Washington and Schooling in the Black Belt | |
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| An Ideology of African American Inferiority | |
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| A Liberal Justification for Racial Oppression: Darwinian Evolution | |
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| Avoiding the Issue of Political Power | |
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| A Liberal Faith: Social Progress through the Marketplace | |
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| The Washington Solution | |
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| William Edward Burghardt Du Bois | |
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| Building a Philosophy of Education | |
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| Primary Source Reading: Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others | |
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| Developing Your Professional Vocabulary | |
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| Questions for Discussion and Examination | |
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| Online Resources | |
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| Diversity and Equity: Schooling and American Indians | |
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| Introduction: Assimilation through Scientific Management | |
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| Pluralism versus Assimilationism | |
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| Political-Economic Foundations of Indian Schooling | |
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| A World before Europeans | |
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| The Ambiguous and Paradoxical | |
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| Treaties and the "Trust Relationship" | |
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| Ideology | |
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| Traditional Knowledge versus Science and Progress | |
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| Schooling the Native American | |
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| Social Education, from Land Allotment to Boarding Schools | |
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| The Progressive Reform Movement | |
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| Scientific Management and Educational Reform | |
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| "Progressive" Indian Education: Early Years | |
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| The Influence of John Collier | |
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| Collier's Early Career | |
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| Collier as Commissioner of Indian Affairs | |
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| Willard Walcott Beatty: Progressive Education for Native Americans | |
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| Schooling and Assimilation of the Indian Child | |
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| Afterword: The Case of the Navajo | |
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| Building a Philosophy of Education | |
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| Primary Source Reading: The Hopi Way (1944) | |
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| Primary Source Reading: Statements by Three American Indian Educators | |
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| Developing Your Professional Vocabulary | |
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| Questions for Discussion and Examination | |
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| Online Resources | |
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| National School Reform: The Early Cold War Era | |
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| Introduction: The Best and Brightest... | |
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| Political Economy and Ideology of the Early Cold War Era | |
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| U.S. Fear of Soviet Communism | |
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| New Liberal Ideology in the Cold War Era | |
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| James Bryant Conant | |
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| Standardized Testing and Student Selection | |
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| Who Merits a College Education? | |
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| School Reform Reports and Social Stratification | |
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| Education in a Divided World | |
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| School Reform in the Postwar Era | |
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| The Great Talent Hunt | |
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| Slums and Subversives | |
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| Building a Philosophy of Education | |
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| Primary Source Reading: Excerpts from "Education for All" | |
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| Developing Your Professional Vocabulary | |
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| Questions for Discussion and Examination | |
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| Online Resources | |
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| Educational Aims in Contemporary Society | |
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| Liberty and Literacy Today: Contemporary Perspectives | |
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| Introduction: Revisiting Literacy | |
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| A Brief Historical Perspective | |
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| Literacy and Power: Literacy as a Social Construction | |
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| Ideological Hegemony Theory: Democracy and the Consolidation of Economic Power | |
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| Mass Media and Ideological Hegemony | |
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| The Paradox of Media Property Rights and Public Information Rights: From NBC to GE to Comcast | |
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| Communications Technologies: From Jefferson's "Free Marketplace of Ideas" to the "Information Marketplace" | |
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| The Rise of Social Media | |
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| Contemporary Perspective on Literacy: Conventional Literacy | |
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| Functional Literacy | |
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| Limitations of the Functional Literacy Perspective | |
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| Critical Literacy | |
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| Critical Literacy Method | |
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| Cultural Literacy: Arguments for High-Status Curriculum | |
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| Cultural Literacy: Whose Interests Are Served? | |
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| Schooling and Ideological Hegemony | |
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| Building a Philosophy of Education | |
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| Primary Source Reading: The Future of Reading | |
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| Developing Your Professional Vocabulary | |
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| Questions for Discussion and Examination | |
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| Online Resources | |
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| Teaching in a Public Institution: The Professionalization Movement | |
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| Dominant Ideology and the Teacher's Professional Authority | |
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| Using the Authority of the Rules to Educate | |
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| The Authority of the Expert | |
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| Pedagogical Authority: The Authority of Community | |
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| The Professional Teacher: Remembering Horace Mann | |
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| Professionalization of Teaching: Historical Perspective | |
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| Common-School Reform | |
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| Progressive Era Reform | |
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| Conant Era Reform | |
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| Professionalism and Contemporary School Reform | |
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| Comparing Teaching to Other Professions | |
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| Professionalism versus Neoliberal Market Competition | |
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| Traditional Criteria for the Professions | |
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| Teaching as a Public Profession | |
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| Teaching "Job" versus Teaching Profession: The Issue of Professional Control | |
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| Political-Economic Dimensions of Teaching as a Public Profession | |
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| Public Control versus Professional Autonomy | |
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| Who Controls the Schools? Who Should? | |
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| Statutory Control Structure | |
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| Who Controls the Schools? Extralegal Influences | |
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| Professional Satisfaction and Professional Ethics | |
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| Teaching and Teacher Learning as Collaborative Activities | |
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| Democratic Ethics and the Profession of Teaching | |
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| Building a Philosophy of Education | |
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| Primary Source Reading | |
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| Making Teaching a Profession | |
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| Developing Your Professional Vocabulary | |
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| Questions for Discussion and Examination | |
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| Online Resources | |
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| Differentiated Schooling, Labor Market Preparation, and Contemporary School Reform: The Post-Cold War Era | |
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| Introduction: The Purposes of Schooling | |
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| The Future of the Workplace | |
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| Future Jobs | |
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| Educating for the Workplace | |