Thinking about Schools: A Foundations of Education Reader

ISBN-13: 9780813344904 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 560 str.

Eleanor Hilty

Opis

Designed specifically for students with little or no education background, Thinking About Schools is an essential collection of classic and contemporary readings that provides a complete, balanced overview of educational foundations. Anchored in classic scholarship from the 1960s to today, this book also incorporates a number of thought-provoking popular essays that will engage students and encourage critical thinking about vital issues concerning the purpose of education, curriculum content, the roles and responsibilities of students and teachers, and new directions for education in the twenty-first century. In addition to selecting each reading for its impact and accessibility, editor Eleanor Blair Hilty further promotes student comprehension by including introductions, discussion questions, guides to further reading, and related resources for each of the five parts.

Spis treści

Preface -- Introduction -- What are the Aims and Purposes of Education -- Conflict and Consensus Revisited -- A Past for the Present -- Intellectual Capital -- Learning from the Past -- We Want It All -- Part I Additional Resources -- What Should be the Content of the Curriculum? -- The Shifting Ground of Curriculum Thought and Everyday Practice -- But That’s Just Good Teaching! -- The Banking Concept of Education -- Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality -- The Silenced Dialogue -- Part II Additional Resources -- What are the Roles and Responsibilities of Teacher Leaders? -- Teachers as Transformative Intellectuals -- On the Frontier of School Reform with Trailblazers, Pioneers, and Settlers -- How to Build Leadership Capacity -- Against the Grain -- What are we Doing Here? Building a Framework for Teaching -- Part III Additional Resources -- What are the Roles and Responsibilities of Students? -- Adequate Schools and Inadequate Education -- Educators, Homosexuality, and Homosexual Students -- At-Risk Children and the Common School Ideal -- Silencing and Nurturing Voice in an Improbable Context -- Standing for Students, Standing for Change -- Part IV Additional Resources -- What are the Issues that Impact Twenty-First-Century Schools? -- Grouping the Gifted and Talented -- Let’s Declare Education a Disaster and Get on with Our Lives -- The Professionally Challenged Teacher -- The Educational Costs of Standardization -- From “Separate but Equal” to “No Child Left Behind” -- Closing the Achievement Gap by Detracking -- Still Separate, Still Unequal -- Talking About Race, Learning About Racism -- Come and Listen to a Story -- Rethinking Education in a Technological World -- Part V Additional Resources -- Credits

O autorze

Blair Hilty, Eleanor