Foundations of Education The Essential Texts

Name: Foundations of Education The Essential Texts
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ISBN: 9780415806251

ISBN-10: 0415806259

ISBN-13: 9780415806251

Edition: 2010

Authors: Susan F. Semel

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Foundations of Education helps aspiring teachers interpret the craft of teaching within the historical, philosophical, cultural, and social contexts of education inside and outside of schools. This volume contains substantial selections from those works widely regarded as central to the development of the field. These are the essential texts that lay the basis of further study for any serious student of education. The text is organized around the separate foundations disciplines-history, politics, sociology, philosophy- and includes extended selections from the works of John Dewey and W.E.B. DuBois to contemporary thinkers such as Maxine Greene and Diane Ravitch. Noted scholar and editor of…

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List price: $45.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 4/9/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction




The History of Education



Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others




The Progressive Movement in American Education: A Perspective




Inside the System: The Character of Urban Schools, 1890-1940




The Politics of Education



Broken Promises: School Reform in Retrospect




What "Counts" as Educational Policy? Notes toward a New Paradigm




The Democratic-Liberal Tradition Under Attack




The Sociology of Education



Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification




The Logic of Teacher Sentiments




The Tracking Wars




The Philosophy of Education



Experience and Education




Wide-Awakeness and the Moral Life




The Ideal of the Educated Person



Questions for Further Discussion


Permissions


Index