Exploring Education: An Introduction to the Foundations of Education, 3rd Edition

<>Preface

Acknowledgments

 

1. The Limits and Promises of Education: Toward Reflective Practitioners

            Educational Problems

            Understanding Education: The Foundations Perspective

            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 and Radical Perspectives

            The Purposes of Schooling

            Political Perspectives

            From Political Perspectives to the Politics of Education

            Lessons Learned from a Half-Century of Federal Policy Development                                       

                       Christopher T. Cross

            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

            Urbanization and the Progressive Impetus

            The Post-World War II Era: 1945-1980

            Educational Reaction and Reform and the Standards Era: 1980s-2005

            Understanding the History of U.S. Education

            Different Historical Interpretations

            Conclusion

            Forgetting the Questions: The Problem of Educational Reform

                        Diane Ravitch

            Popular Schooling

                        Lawrence A. Cremin

 

4. The Sociology of Education

            The Uses of Sociology for Teachers

            The Relation between School and Society

            Effects of Schooling on Individuals

            Inside the Schools

            Education and Inequality

            Sociology and the Current Educational Crisis

            Japanese Education: A Durkheimian Ideal Type?

                        Roger Goodman

            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

            Particular Philosophies of Education

            Conclusion

            My Pedagogic Creed

                        John Dewey

            Wide-Awakeness and the Moral Life

                        Maxine Green

            The Ideal of the Educated Person

                        Jane Roland Martin

 

6. Schools as Organizations and Teacher Professionalization

            The Structure of U.S. Education

            International Comparisons

            School Processes and School Cultures

            Teachers, Teaching, and Professionalization

            Contradictions of Reform

                        Linda M. McNeil

            The TIMSS Videotape Study

                        James W. Stigler and James Hiebert

            Is There Really A Teacher Shortage?

                        Richard M. 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

            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 Mimetic and the Transformative: Alternate Outlooks on Teaching

                        Philip W. Jackson

            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

            School Differences and Educational Outcomes

            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

            Chartering and Bartering: Elite Education and Social Reproduction

                        Caroline Hodges Persell and Peter W. Cookson, Jr.

            College-for-All: Do Students Understand What College Demands?

                        James E. Rosenbaum

 

9. Explanations of Educational Inequality

            Explanations of Unequal Educational Achievement

            Student-Centered Explanations

            School-Centered Explanations

            Do Schools Reproduce Inequality?

            Keeping Track, Part I: The Policy and Practice of Curriculum Inequality

                        Jeannie Oakes

            Females + Mathematics= A complex Equation

                        Karen Karp

            Social Class Differences in Family-School Relationships: The Importance of      Cultural Capital

                        Annette Lareau

            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 2005

            Federal Involvement in Education

            A Theory of Educational Problems and Reforms

            The Politics of School Choice Research: Fact, Fiction, and Statistics

                        Jeanne M. Powers and Peter W. Cookson, Jr.

            Reinventing Teaching

                        Deborah Meier

            A Level Playing Field

                        Catherine Gewertz

 

Appendix: Suggested Resources

References

Index