Thinking about Schools: A Foundations of Education Reader

by Blair Hilty,Eleanor

• ISBN13: 9780813344904
• ISBN10: 0813344905
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2011-03-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Designed specifically for students with little or no education background,Thinking About Schoolsis an essential collection of classic and contemporary readings that provides a complete, balanced overview of educational foundations. Anchored in classic scholarship from the 1960s to today, this book also incorporates a number of thought-provoking popular essays that will engage students and encourage critical thinking about vital issues concerning the purpose of education, curriculum content, the roles and responsibilities of students and teachers, and new directions for education in the twenty-first century. In addition to selecting each reading for its impact and accessibility, editor Eleanor Blair Hilty further promotes student comprehension by including introductions, discussion questions, guides to further reading, and related resources for each of the five parts.

Author Biography

Eleanor Blair Hilty is an associate professor of education at Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carolina. She is the director of the MAED program in secondary education and teaches foundational education courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Introduction: The Questions That Guide Our Practice	p. xiii
What Are the Aims and Purposes of Education?
Introduction	p. 3
Conflict and Consensus Revisited: Notes Toward a Reinterpretation of American Educational History	p. 7
A Past for the Present: History, Education, and Public Policy	p. 13
Intellectual Capital: A Civil Right	p. 29
Learning from the Past	p. 59
We Want It All	p. 69
Additional Resources
Discussion Questions	p. 93
Guide to Further Reading	p. 93
Related Resources	p. 94
What Should be the Content of the Curriculum?
Introduction	p. 97
The Shifting Ground of Curriculum Thought and Everyday Practice	p. 99
But That's Just Good Teaching! The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy	p. 107
The Banking Concept of Education	p. 117
Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality	p. 129
The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children	p. 157
Additional Resources
Discussion Questions	p. 177
Guide to Further Reading	p. 177
Related Resources	p. 178
What are the Roles and Responsibilities of Teacher Leaders?
Introduction	p. 181
Teachers as Transformative Intellectuals	p. 183
On the Frontier of School Reform with Trailblazers, Pioneers, and Settlers	p. 191
How to Build Leadership Capacity	p. 201
Against the Grain	p. 205
What Are We Doing Here? Building a Framework for Teaching	p. 227
Additional Resources
Discussion Questions	p. 249
Guide to Further Reading	p. 249
Related Resources	p. 250
What Are the Roles and Responsibilities of Students?
Introduction	p. 253
Adequate Schools and Inadequate Education: The Life History of a Sneaky Kid	p. 255
Educators, Homosexuality, and Homosexual Students: Are Personal Feelings Related to Professional Beliefs?	p. 283
At-Risk Children and the Common School Ideal	p. 323
Silencing and Nurturing Voice in an Improbable Context: Urban Adolecents in Public School	p. 337
Standing for Students, Standing for Change	p. 357
Additional Resources
Discussion Questions	p. 361
Guide to Further Reading	p. 361
Related Resources	p. 362
What Are the Issues that Impact Twenty-First-Century Schools?
Introduction	p. 365
Grouping the Gifted and Talented: Questions and Answers	p. 367
Let's Declare Education a Disaster and Get On with Our Lives	p. 379
The Professionally Challenged Teacher: Teachers Talk About School Failure	p. 389
The Educational Costs of Standardization	p. 411
From "Separate but Equal" to "No Child Left Behind": The Collision of New Standards and Old Inequalities	p. 419
Closing the Achievement Gap by Detracking	p. 439
Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid	p. 445
Talking About Race, Learning About Racism: The Application of Racial Identity Development Theory in the Classroom	p. 465
Come and Listen to a Story: Understanding the Appalachian Hillbilly in Popular Culture	p. 491
Rethinking Education in a Technological World	p. 503
Additional Resources
Discussion Questions	p. 519
Guide to Further Reading	p. 519
Related Resources	p. 520
About the Editor and Contributors	p. 521
Credits	p. 527
Index	p. 531
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