Educational Foundations : An Anthology of Critical Readings

by Canestrari, Alan; Marlowe, Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780761930310
• ISBN10: 0761930310
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-10
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

Summary

Educational Foundations: An Anthology of Critical Readings provides an exciting alternative to foundations texts currently on the market. This anthology is aimed at students about to enter the teaching profession, those new to the profession, and anyone interested in carefully examining schools and schooling. Editors Alan S. Canestrari and Bruce A. Marlowe have collected two dozen provocative, engaging essays to challenge students, professors, and administrators with the following questions:- Why teach? - Who are today's students ? - What makes a good teacher? - How should we assess student learning? - What does a good school look like? - How does one develop a critical voice?The chapter authors address these questions in a bold and refreshing way. Their views are unapologetically politicized, and are informed by decades of experience as teachers, principals, and policy-makers. The collection challenges readers to take a hard look at traditional education practice, and encourages students to become critical, reflective practitioners upon entering the field.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

Part I. Why Teach?

1. Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year - Esme Codell

2. The Green Monongahela - John Taylor Gatto

3. Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools - Jonathan Kozol

4. Horace's Compromise - Theodore Sizer

Part II. Who Are Today's Students?

5. What Should Teachers Do? Ebonics and Culturally Responsive Instruction - Lisa Delpit

6. Racism, Discrimination, and Expectations of Students' Achievement - Sonia Nieto

7. Full Inclusion as Disclosing Tablet: Revealing the Flaws in Our Present System - Mara Sapon-Shevin

8. Making the Most of the Classroom Mosaic - Bruce Marlowe and Marilyn Page

Part III. What Makes a Good Teacher?

9. The Banking Concept of Education - Paulo Freire

10. On Stir-and-Serve Recipes for Teaching - Susan Ohanian

11. Psst . . . It Ain't About the Tests: It's Still About Great Teaching - Robert DiGiulio

12. So What Do You Do Now? - Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner

Part IV. What Do Good Schools Look Like?

13. The Paideia Proposal: Rediscovering the Essence of Education - Mortimer Adler

14. When Learning Matters: Using Learning Plans to Educate One Student at a Time - Elliot Washor

15. What to Look for in a Classroom - Alfie Kohn

16. The Idea of Summerhill - A. S. Neill

Part V. How Should We Assess Student Learning?

17. Grading: The Issue Is Not How But Why? - Alfie Kohn

18. The Courage to Be Constructivist - Martin Brooks and Jacqueline Grennon Brooks

19. The Standards Fraud - William Ayers

20. A Mania for Rubrics - Thomas Newkirk

Part VI. How Does One Develop a Critical Voice?

21. Teachers as Transformative Intellectuals - Henry Giroux

22. Resistance and Courage: A Conversation With Deborah Meier

23. Speaking in a Critical Voice - Marilyn Page

24. Developing a Critical Voice: A Conversation With Alfie Kohn

Epilogue

Index