Critical Issues in Education : An Anthology of Readings

by Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.

• ISBN13: 9781412904773
• ISBN10: 1412904773
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-06
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

Eugene Provenzo, a nationally recognized scholar in the social and cultural foundations of education, has edited this collection of significant readings relevant to western traditions of education. Focusing on modern and postmodern ideas, Critical Issues in Education: An Anthology of Readings includes selections from scholars of education ranging from John Dewey and William James to important contemporary writers such as bell hooks, Sonia Nieto, and Henry Giroux. Key Features: Provides strong introductory materials: The editor has developed this as a course text and therefore provides original contributions to contextualize and shape the selections into a meaningful whole. He offers commentary and analysis throughout in the form of original essays, head notes, and questions that help students engage with the anthologized readings. Follows a comprehensive development of themes: A compilation of many of the most significant readings about education in the west, the book is organized into seven thematic units?The Aims of Education; Society and Education; Compulsory Education and the Transmission of Culture; Sexuality and Education; Race; Multiculturalism, and Education; Social Class and Education; and Technology and Education. Stimulates critical thinking: The editor includes readings that are important, provocative, and inherently interesting, and that encourage readers to critically reflect on the meaning of education and schooling in American culture. In addition, discussion questions for each of the eight thematic units facilitate classroom discussion. Intended Audience: This is an ideal supplementary text for undergraduate and graduate courses on the foundations of education such as Foundations of Education; Historical Foundations of Education; Philosophical Foundations of Education; and Issues in Education. It will also be a welcome addition to individual scholars? bookshelves.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Credit Lines	ix
Preface	xi
Educational Thought in Western Culture	xi
Introduction	xiii
PROLOGUE: MODERN AND POSTMODERN THOUGHT	1	(18)
1. "Orientation" Editorial for The Social Frontier (1934)	7	(5)
George S. Counts
2. "The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World" (1994)	12	(10)
Vaclav Havel
PART I: THE AIMS OF EDUCATION	19	(30)
3. "My Pedagogic Creed" (1897)	22	(10)
John Dewey
4. Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education (1918)	32	(7)
National Education Association
5. "A Morally Defensible Mission for Schools in the 21st Century" (1997)	39	(19)
Nel Noddings
PART II: SOCIETY AND EDUCATION	49	(32)
6. Selection From Notes on the State of Virginia (1781) 53
Thomas Jefferson
7. "Thoughts Upon the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic" (1786)	58	(4)
Benjamin Rush
8. Selections From Report No. 12 of the Massachusetts School Board (1848)	62	(14)
Horace Mann
9. Selection From Dare the Schools Build a New Social Order? (1932)	76	(5)
George S. Counts
PART III: COMPULSORY SCHOOLING, EDUCATION, AND THE TRANSMISSION OF CULTURE	81	(54)
10. Massachusetts Compulsory School Law (1852)	84	(4)
General Court of Massachusetts
11. Selection From Compulsory Mis-Education (1964)	88	(4)
Paul Goodman
12. "Vulnerability and Education" (1966)	92	(14)
Jules Henry
13. "The Banking Model of Education" (1970)	106	(14)
Paulo Freire
14. "Why We Must Disestablish School" (1970)	120	(15)
Ivan Illich
PART IV: SEXUALITY AND EDUCATION	135	(46)
15. Selection From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)	138	(4)
Mary Wollstonecraft
16. Seneca Falls Declaration (1848)	142	(4)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
17. Equal Rights Amendment (1921)	146	(2)
Alice Paul
18. Title IX (1972)	148	(6)
Congress of the United States of America
19. "The Absent Presence: Patriarchy, Capitalism, and the Nature of Teacher Work" (1987)	154	(14)
Patti Lather
20. "A Queer Youth" (1996)	168	(6)
Paul H. Cottell Jr.
21. "How and Why Boys Under-Achieve" (2000)	174	(7)
Wendy Bradford and Colin Noble
PART V: RACE, MULTICULTURALISM, AND EDUCATION	181	(64)
22. Laws Prohibiting the Education of Slaves (1830-1832)	184	(4)
General Assembly of the State of North Carolina; General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia; and the General Assembly of Alabama
23. "Industrial Education for the Negro" (1903)	188	(4)
Booker T Washington
24. "The Talented Tenth" (1903)	192	(6)
W.E.B. Du Bois
25. "A Talk to Teachers" (1963)	198	(8)
James Baldwin
26. Education for All Handicapped Children Act (1975)	206	(4)
Congress of the United States of America
27. "Border Pedagogy in the Age of Postmodernism" (1988)	210	(18)
Henry Giroux
28. "Multicultural Education and School Reform" (2001)	228	(17)
Sonia Nieto
PART VI: SOCIAL CLASS AND EDUCATION	245	(38)
29. Selection From Pygmalion in the Classroom (1968)	248	(6)
Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson
30. "Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work" (1980)	254	(18)
Jean Anyon
31. "Crossing Class Boundaries" (2000)	272	(11)
bell hooks
PART VII: TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION	283	(20)
32. Augmenting Human Intellect (1962)	286	(3)
Douglas Engelbart
33. "How Computers Contribute to the Ecological Crisis" (1990)	289	(8)
C.A. Bowers
34. "The Field: Knowledge in Computerized Societies" (1979)	297	(6)
Jean-François Lyotard
Author Index	303	(2)
Subject Index	305	(8)
About the Editor	313