Cultural Foundations of Education

Name: Cultural Foundations of Education
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ISBN: 9780130852557

ISBN-10: 0130852554

ISBN-13: 9780130852557

Edition: 3rd 2001

Authors: Young Pai, Susan Adler

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This thought-provoking book examines education as a cultural phenomenon and explores the implications of this perspective on schooling, multicultural education, educational development, and the process of teaching and learning. The authors combine the concepts of anthropology, education, schooling, teaching, and learning into an insightful introduction to the study of the cultural basis of education. Key topics include conflict between core and youth values, minority languages in the classroom, contemporary analysis of the IQ issues, recent school reform efforts, a new look at approaches to multicultural education, the postmodern conception of childhood and its educational implications, a…

Book details

List price: $45.33
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 6/27/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 262
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English




Culture and the Educative Process



Introduction



Culture, Education, and Schooling



Culture and the American School



Schooling as Americanization: 1600's-1970's



Cultural Pluralism, Democracy and Multicultural Education: 1970's-1990's



Culture, Schooling, and the Educational Development



Culture and the Role of Schooling



Culture and the Educational Development of the Learner



Culture and the Learning Process


Epilogue


Glossary of Key Concepts