Samuel M. Craver, Maike Ingrid Philipsen

Foundations of Education (eBook, PDF)

Problems and Possibilities in American Education

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Foundations of Education is organized around the major problems facing contemporary American education. It offers a thorough, scholarly treatment of these problems from historical, philosophical, and sociological perspectives, bringing together relevant findings from those disciplines to analyze and illuminate a wide range of issues. Each chapter focuses on a core topic (including race, gender, equal opportunities, school governance) to give students a solid overview, providing intellectually sound material that offers real depth and challenges students to think creatively.

Packed with exercises, discussion questions, international case studies for comparative purposes and supported by a fully up-to-date companion website, this is a text that responds to current developments, changes, and trends in teacher education. Foundations of Education will prepare a new generation of educators for a globalized and technology-driven society that needs to be aware of its best educational traditions, its current problems and its future possibilities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441118561
• Artikelnr.: 48422205

Autorenporträt

Samuel M. Craver is Professor Emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the co-author, with Howard Ozmon, of Philosophical Foundations of Education, 8th Edition (Prentice Hall, 2007).