Eleanor Blair Hilty

Thinking about Schools (eBook, ePUB)

A Foundations of Education Reader

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book considers how American public education came to be the way it is today. It helps students to have a better sense of how the past informs the present and how questions regarding who is served best by the schools tell us about the goals and aspirations of present-day schools in America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429975301
• Artikelnr.: 54173555

Autorenporträt

Blair Hilty, Eleanor

Inhaltsangabe

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