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Educational Foundations An Anthology of Critical Readings

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ISBN-10: 1452216762

ISBN-13: 9781452216768

Edition: 3rd 2013

Authors: Alan S. Canestrari, Bruce A. Marlowe

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FULL DESCRIPTIONWhy Teach?Who Are Today’s Students?What Makes a Good Teacher?Educational Foundations: An Anthology of Critical Readings answers these questions and more, providing an exciting alternative to other foundations textbooks. This anthology is aimed at students about to enter the teaching profession, those new to the profession, and anyone interested in carefully examining-and improving-schools and schooling. In this Third Edition, editors Alan S. Canestrari and Bruce A. Marlowe add new essays by classic and contemporary policy shapers and teachers. The readings are bold and refreshing, and their authors eschew unquestioning compliance. By taking a hard look at traditional…    
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List price: $45.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 343
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Alan Canestrari Alan S. Canestrari, Ed.D, Boston University, a veteran social studies practitioner and Professor of Education at Roger Williams University, is co-editor (with Bruce Marlowe) of Educational Foundations: An Anthology of Critical Readings (Sage) and Educational Psychology in Context: Readings for Future Teachers (Sage). Educational Foundations was awarded the 2005 American Educational Studies Association Critics Choice Award. Canestrari had a long career in public schools and universities as a history teacher, department chair, adjunct professor at Rhode Island College, and mentor in the Brown University Masters of Teaching Program. He was the RI Social Studies Teacher of the…    

Bruce A. Marlowe Bruce A. Marlowe earned his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. where he also completed two years of postdoctoral training in neuropsychological assessment. He is the co-author (with Marilyn Page) of Creating and Sustaining the Constructivist Classroom (Corwin Press) and of a 6- part video series entitled, Creating the Constructivist Classroom (The Video of Journal Education). He is also the co-editor (with Alan Canestrari) of Educational Psychology in Context: Readings for Future Teachers . He has taught at the elementary, secondary and University levels and is currently Professor of Educational Psychology and Special…    

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Why Teach?
Letters to a Young Teacher: Why New Recruits Leave Inner-City Classrooms-and What It Will Take to Keep Them There
The Green Monongahela
Why Teach?
Who Are Today's Students?
What Should Teachers Do? Ebonics and Culturally Responsive Instruction
Racism, Discrimination, and Expectations of Students' Achievement
Inclusion: Rejecting Instruction That Disables
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students: Perceived Social Support in the High School Environment
What Makes a Good Teacher?
The Banking Concept of Education
On Stir-and-Serve Recipes for Teaching
Psst…It Ain't About the Tests: It's Still About Great Teaching
What Do Good Schools Look Like?
The Idea of Summerhill
Success in East Harlem: How One Group of Teachers Built a School That Works
Beyond the Deficit Paradigm: An Ecological Orientation to Thriving Urban Schools
How Should We Assess Student Learning?
A Mania for Rubrics
Grading: The Issue Is Not How but Why?
Confessions of a "Bad" Teacher
How, and How Not, to Improve the Schools
How Does One Develop a Critical Voice?
Teachers as Transformative Intellectuals
Resistance and Courage: A Conversation With Deborah Meier
From Silence to Dissent: Fostering Critical Voice in Teachers
How Do We Move Forward?
Poor Teaching for Poor Children…in the Name of Reform
Necessary Muddles: Children's Language Learning in the Classroom
Teacher Unionism Reborn
Epilogue
The Quest: Achieving Ideological Escape Velocity-Becoming an Activist Teacher
Index