Alan R. Sadovnik, Peter Cookson Jr., Susan Semel, Ryan Coughlan

Exploring Education (eBook, ePUB)

An Introduction to the Foundations of Education

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This much-anticipated fifth edition of Exploring Education offers an alternative to traditional foundations texts by combining a point-of-view analysis with primary source readings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 606
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315408521
• Artikelnr.: 49990531

Autorenporträt

Alan R. Sadovnik is Board of Governors Distinguised Service Professor of Education, Sociology, and Public Administration and Affairs at Rutgers University-Newark, USA.

Peter W. Cookson, Jr. is a Senior Researcher at the Learning Policy Institute Palo Alto California and Washington DC, and teaches in the Sociology Department at Georgetown University, USA.

Susan F. Semel is Professor of Education at the City College of New York, USA and Professor of Urban Education at the City University of New York Graduate Center, USA.

Ryan W. Coughlan is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Guttman Community College, CUNY, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 The Limits and Promises of Education: Toward Reflective Practitioners

Educational Problems



The Achievement Gaps

The Crisis in Urban Education

The Decline of Literacy

Assessment Issues



Understanding Education: The Foundations Perspective



The History of Education

The Philosophy of Education

The Politics of Education

The Sociology of Education



The Foundations Perspective: A Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Approach

Critical Literacy and Empowerment: Toward the Active Voice of Teachers

2 The Politics of Education: Conservative, Liberal, Radical, and
Neo-liberal Perspectives

The Purposes of Schooling

Political Perspectives



General Issues: Conservative, Liberal, Radical, and Neo-liberal Perspectives

Traditional and Progressive Visions of Education

The Role of the School

Explanations of Unequal Educational Performance

Definition of Educational Problems

Educational Policy and Reform

Education and the American Dream



The Neo-liberal Perspective

From Political Perspectives to the Politics of Education

Evidence Use and the Core Curriculum Standards Movement: From Problem Definition to Policy Adoption, Lorraine McDonnell and M. Stephen Weatherford

What "Counts" as Educational Policy? Notes Toward a New Paradigm, Jean Anyon

3 The History of Education

Old World and New World Education: The Colonial Era

The Age of Reform: The Rise of the Common School



Opposition to Public Education

Education for Women and African-Americans



Urbanization and the Progressive Impetus



Education for All: The Emergence of the Public High School



The Post-World War II Equity Era: 1945-1980



Cycles of Reform: Progressive and Traditional



Equality of Opportunity

Educational Reaction and Reform and the Standards Era: 1980s-2012

Understanding the History of U.S. Education: Different Historical Interpretations



The Democratic-Liberal School

The Radical-Revisionist School

Conservative Perspectives



Conclusion

Empowerment and Education: Civil Rights, Expert Advocates, and Parent

Politics in Head Start, 1964-1980, Josh Kagan

Capital Accumulation, Class Conflict, and Educational Change, Samuel
Bowles and Herbert Gintis

4 The Sociology of Education

The Uses of Sociology for Teachers

The Relation between School and Society

Theoretical Perspectives



Functional Theories

Conflict Theories

Interactional Theories



Effects of Schooling on Individuals



Knowledge and Attitudes

Employment

Education and Mobility



Inside the Schools



Teacher Behavior

Student Peer Groups and Alienation



Education and Inequality



Inadequate Schools

Tracking

De Facto Segregation

Gender



Sociology and the Current Educational Crisis

The School Class as a Social System Some of Its Functions in

American Society, Talcott Parsons

On Understanding the Processes of Schooling: The Contributions of
Labeling Theory, Ray C. Rist

The Politics of Culture: Understanding Local Political Resistance to
Detracking in Racially Mixed Schools, Amy Stuart Wells and Irene Serna

5 The Philosophy of Education and Its Significance for Teachers

The Perspective of Philosophy of Education



What Is Philosophy of Education?

The Meaning of Philosophical Inquiry



Particular Philosophies of Education



Idealism

Realism

Pragmatism

Existentialism and Phenomenology

Neo-Marxism

Postmodernist and Critical Theory



Conclusion

My Pedagogic Creed, John Dewey

Wide-Awakeness and the Moral Life, Maxine Greene

6 Schools as Organizations and Teacher Professionalization

The Structure of U.S. Education



Governance

Size and Degree of Centralization

Student Composition

Degree of "Openness"

Private Schools

Conclusion



International Comparisons



Great Britain

France

Japan

Germany

Finland

Conclusion



School Processes and School Cultures

Teachers, Teaching, and Professionalization



Who Becomes a Teacher?

The Nature of Teaching

Underqualified Teachers

Teacher Professionalization



Rich Land, Poor Schools: Inequality of National Educational Resources
and Achievement of Disadvantaged Students, David Baker and Gerald LeTendre, with Brian Goesling

What Do the National Data Tell Us About Minority Teacher Shortages,

Richard Ingersoll

7 Curriculum, Pedagogy, and the Transmission of Knowledge

What Do the Schools Teach?

The History and Philosophy of the Curriculum

The Politics of the Curriculum

The Sociology of the Curriculum



Multicultural Education



Curriculum Theory and Practice: The Reconceptualization of Curriculum Studies

Pedagogic Practices: How the Curriculum is Taught

The Philosophy of Teaching: Differing Views on Pedagogic Practices

The Stratification of the Curriculum

The Effects of the Curriculum: What is Learned in Schools?

Conclusion

The Politics of a National Curriculum, Michael W. Apple

The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's
Children, Lisa D. Delpit

8 Equality of Opportunity and Educational Outcomes

Calculating Educational and Life Outcomes



Class

Race

Gender

Educational Achievement and Attainment of African-American,
Hispanic-American, and Women Students

Students with Special Needs

Conclusion



School Differences and Educational Outcomes



The Coleman Study (1966)

The Coleman Study (1982)

Conclusion



School Segregation

Educational Attainment and Economic Achievement

Education and Inequality: Mobility or Reproduction?

Class and the Classroom: Even the Best Schools Can't Close the Race
Achievement Gap, Richard Rothstein

Fifty Years Since the Coleman Report: Rethinking the Relationship

between Schools and Inequality, Douglas B. Downey and Dennis J. Condron

A Social Constructionist Approach to Disability: Implications

for Special Education, Dimitris Anastasiou and James M. Kauffman

9 Explanations of Educational Inequality

Explanations of Unequal Educational Achievement

Student-Centered Explanations



Genetic Differences

Cultural Deprivation Theories

Cultural Difference Theories



School-Centered Explanations



School Financing

Effective School Research

Between-School Differences: Curriculum and Pedagogic Practices

Within-School Differences: Curriculum and Ability Grouping

Gender and Schooling



Do Schools Reproduce Inequality?

It's Not "a Black Thing": Understanding the Burden of Acting White and
Other Dilemmas of High Achievement, Karolyn Tyson, William Darity, Jr., and Domini R. Castellino

How You Bully a Girl": Sexual Drama and the Negotiation of

Gendered Sexuality in High School, Sarah A. Miller

The Rules of the Game and the Uncertain Transmission of

Advantage: Middle-class Parents' Search for an Urban

Kindergarten, Annette Lareau, Shani Adia Evans, and April Yee

A Black Student's Reflection on Public and Private Schools, Imani Perry

10 Educational Reform and School Improvement

Effective Teachers

Educational Reform from the 1980s to 2012

Federal Involvement in Education



Goals 2000: Building on a Decade of Reform

No Child Left Behind

Race to the Top



Approaches to Reform

School-Based Reforms



School Choice, Charter Schools, and Tuition Vouchers

Privatization

Teacher Education

Teacher Quality

The Effective School Movement



Societal, Community, Economic, and Political Reforms



State Intervention and Mayoral Control in Local School Districts

School Finance Reforms

Full Service and Community Schools

Harlem Children's Zone

Connecting School, Community, and Societal Reforms



A Theory of Educational Problems and Reforms

School Vouchers and Student Achievement: Reviewing the Research, David Trilling

A Critical Look at the Charter School Debate, Margaret E. Raymond

Ravitch-Tilson Debate, Diane Ravitch and Whitney Tilson

Appendix: Suggested Resources

Permissions

References

Index