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Foundations of American Education

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ISBN-10: 0132626128

ISBN-13: 9780132626125

Edition: 7th 2013 (Revised)

Authors: L. Dean Webb, Arlene Metha, K. Forbis Jordan

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The Seventh Edition ofFoundations of American Educationprovides a clear picture of the field of education and how its evolution affects today’s teaching and learning. The seventh edition brings attention to the major challenges and issues that are shaping education in the second decade of the twenty-first century, including major changes in the teaching profession, the classroom, and the board room, increased involvement of state and federal governments in education, the movement toward national standards, the continued emphasis on student achievement data and the push to include these data in pay-for-performance compensation and value-added evaluation, the rapid growth and support for…    
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List price: $116.99
Edition: 7th
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Pearson Education, Limited
Publication date: 2/28/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 8.00" wide x 11.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.112
Language: English

Brief Contents
The Teaching Profession
Status of the Profession
Development of the Profession
Philosophy and Its Impact on the Schools
The Major Philosophies
The Impact of Educational Theories on Educational Practice
Historical Foundations of Education
American Education: European Heritage and Colonial Experience
American Education: From Revolution to the Twentieth Century
Modern American Education: From the Progressive Movement to the Present
Schooling In A Diverse and Multicultural Society
The Social and Cultural Contexts of Schooling: Their Influence and Consequence
Responding to Diversity
Students at Risk and At-Risk Behaviors
Legal and Political Control and Financial Support
Legal Framework for the Public Schools
Teachers, Students, and the Law
Governance and Financing of Elementary and Secondary Schools
Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment in Effective Schools
Curriculum and Instruction
Standards and Assessment
The Teaching Profession
Status of the Profession
The Teacher and Teaching: Definitions
Profile of the Teaching Profession
Why Become a Teacher?
ASK YOURSELF: Do I Want to Be a Teacher?
Satisfactions and Dissatisfactions with Teaching
Teacher Preparation
Baccalaureate Teacher Education Programs
HISTORICAL NOTE: The Columbian School: The First Formal Teacher Training Institution
Alternative Teacher Preparation Programs
VIDEO INSIGHT: Teacher Shortage: Alternative Certification
Minority Representation in the Teaching Force
Teacher Certification
Assessment for Initial Certification and Licensure
Emergency Certification
Recertification
Reciprocity and Interstate Certification
National Certification: The NBPTS
Teacher Supply and Demand
Salary and Other Compensation
Salary Schedules
Performance-Based Pay Plans and Knowledge and Skills
CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE: Value-Added Pay
Compensation for Supplemental Activities
Salaries for Administrative and Support Personnel
Indirect Compensation: Employee Benefits and Services
Summary
Professional Development Workshop
Development of the Profession
Teaching as a Profession
Requirements of a Profession
Specialized Knowledge and Preparation
Provision of Essential Services to Society
The Exercise of Discretion
Autonomy and Freedom from Direct Supervision
Code of Professional Standards
Professional Codes of Ethics
ASK YOURSELF: Does Teaching Qualify as a Profession?
The Increased Professionalization of Teaching
Development of Professional Standards
Professional Development
Career Advancement
CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE: Teacher Tenure
HISTORICAL NOTE: Apprentice Contract for a Schoolmaster, 1722
Evaluating Teacher Performance
Teachers' Organizations
National Organizations for Teachers
Local Organizations for Teachers and Collective Negotiations
Specialized Organizations for Teachers Teachers Organizations and Public Policy Issues
Summary
Professional Development Workshop
Philosophy and Its Impact on the Schools
The Major Philosophies
What Is Philosophy?
Branches of Philosophy 0
Metaphysics: What Is the Nature of Reality?
Epistemology: What Is the Nature of Knowledge?
Axiology: What Is the Nature of Values?
Traditional Philosophies and Their Educational Implications
Idealism
CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES: Should Moral Education, Character Education or Values Education Be a Responsibility of the School?
ASK YOURSELF: What Is My Philosophy of Life?
HISTORICAL NOTE: Plato's Academy
Realism
Neo-Thomism
Contemporary Philosophies and Their Educational Implications
Pragmatism
Existentialism
Analytic Philosophy
Major Eastern Philosophies
Hinduism
Budism
Confucinism
Taoism
Summary
Professional Development Workshop
The Impact of Educational Theories on Educational Practice
Theories of Education
Perennialism
Purpose of Schooling
Nature of the Learner
Curriculum
Instructional Methods
Classroom Management
Assessment
The Perennialist Teacher
Leading Educational Proponents
Progressivism
Purpose of Schooling
Nature of the Learner
Curriculum Instructional Methods
Classroom Management
Assessment
The Progressivist Teacher
Leading Educational Proponents
HISTORICAL NOTE: Thomas Dewey
Behaviorism
Purpose of Schooling
Nature of the Learner
Curriculum
Instructional Methods
Classroom Management
Assessment
The Behaviorist Teacher
Leading Educational Proponents
Essentialism
Purpose of Schooling
Nature of the Learner
Curriculum
Instructional Methods
Classroom Management
Assessment
The Essentialist Teacher
Leading Educational Proponents
Social Reconstructionism
Purpose of Schooling
Nature of the Learner
Curriculum
Instructional Methods
Classroom Management
Assessment
The Social Reconstructionist Teacher
Leading Educational Proponents
Postmodernism
Purpose of Schooling
Nature of the Learner
Curriculum
Instructional Methods
Classroom Management
Assessment
The Postmodernist Teacher
Leading Educational Proponents
Identifying Your Philosophy of Education
ASK YOURSELF: What Is My Philosophy of Education?
Summary
Professional Development Workshop
Historical Foundations of Education
American Education: European Heritage and Colonial Experience
Education in Ancient Societies
Education in Ancient Non-Western Societies
Education in Ancient Western Societies
CONTROVERSIAL issue: Homeschooling
Education in the Middle Ages
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
The Medieval Universities
Influence of Arab Scholars
HISTORICAL NOTE: Life of the Medieval University Student
Education During the Renaissance
Education During the Reformation
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
John Calvin (1509-1564)
Vernacular Schools
Later European Educational Thought
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Jan Amos Comenius (1592-1670)
John Locke (1632-1704)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Johann Pestalozzi (1746-1827)
Johann Herbart (1776-1841)
Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852)
Education in the "New" Old World Before Jamestown
Native American Education
Education in Colonial America
Education in the New England Colonies
Education in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies
New York
Education in the Southern Colonies
Summary
Professional Development Workshop
American Education: From Revolution to the Twentieth Century
Education in the Early National Period
Northwest Land Ordinances Nationalism and Education
Educational Innovations
The Growth of the Academy
The Common School Movement
Moving Forces
Leading Proponents of the Common School
Growth of State and Local Support and Supervision
Organization and Curriculum
Secondary School Movement
Slow Beginnings
The Movement Grows as Industry and the Economy Grow
CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE: Single-Sex Schools and Classes
Tax Support and Compulsory Attendance Laws Further Secondary Education and Literacy
The Committee of Ten
The Seven Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education
The Junior High School
Developments in Higher Education
The Dartmouth College Case
The Morrill Acts and the Establishment of Land-Grant Institutions
Higher Education for Women
The Emergence of the Modern University
Founding of Junior Colleges
Education of Minorities
Education of Native Americans
Education of Hispanic Americans
Education of Asian Americans
Education of Black Americans
HISTORICAL NOTE: Zeal for Learning Among Freedmen, 1868
Teacher Education
Establishment of Normal Schools
Teacher Institutes
Normal School Curriculum and Standards Strengthened
Universities Enter Teacher Training
Summary
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
Modern American Education: From the Progressive Movement to the Present
The Twentieth Century Unfolds
The People and the Nation Grow
Economic Growth
Politics and Reform
Changes in Education
Progressivism in Education
The Beginnings of Progressive Education
John Dewey
Ella Flagg Young
Progressive Education Association
Influence of the Progressive Movement on Higher Education
The Child Study Movement
The Measurement Movement
Education During the Great Depression
George S. Counts and Social Reconstructionism
William C. Bagley and the Essentialists
The Influence of the Second World War
The Postwar Years
The Critics and the Decline of Progressive Education
The Montessori Movement
HISTORICAL NOTE: Maria Montessori
From Sputnik to the New Federalism