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9780072931006

Critical Issues in Education : Dialogues and Dialectics with PowerWeb/OLC Card

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  • ISBN13:

    9780072931006

  • ISBN10:

    0072931000

  • Edition: 5th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-07-02
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Summary

Critical Issues in Education is designed to be used in courses that examine current, relevant pro-and-con disputes about schools and schooling. By exploring the major opposing viewpoints on these issues, the text encourages education students to think critically and develop their own viewpoints. The clear writing and dramatic dialectic approach are conducive to dynamic classroom discussions that help students grasp the many sides of these complex issues. Three integrating themes provide a solid framework for examining the eighteen topics covered. Each part begins with a chapter-length introduction that provides background material and organizing themes for the issues that follow. Each issue is then presented from two divergent viewpoints, each one written in advocate language to be as compelling as possible. The book's objective, in addition to informing the reader about the issues, is to develop critical thinking skills within the context of education.The fifth edition has been extensively revised and includes updated research and scholarship, revised discussion suggestions, and updated bibliographic references. A new Online Learning Center Web Site with PowerWeb accompanies the text.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Nel Noddings

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction: Critical Issues and Critical Thinking

Part One: Whose Interests Should Schools Serve? Justice and Equity

Chapter 2: School Choice: Family or Public Funding

Chapter 3: Financing Schools: Equity or Disparity

Chapter 4: Academic Achievement Gap: Old Remedies or New

Chapter 5: Gender Equity: Discrimination or Legitimate Distinctions

Chapter 6: Standards-Based Reform: Real Change or Political Smoke Screen

Chapter 7: Religion—Church/State: Unification or Separation

Chapter 8: Privatization of Schools: Boon or Bane

Part Two: What Should Be Taught? Knowledge and Literacy

Chapter 9: Basic Education: Traditional or Critical

Chapter 10: Reading: Phonics or Whole Language

Chapter 11: Multicultural Education: Democratic or Divisive

Chapter 12: Values/Character Education: Traditional or Liberational

Chapter 13: Technological Literacy: Necessary or Excessive

Chapter 14: Standardized Testing: Restrict or Expand

Part Three: How Should Schools Be Organized and Operated? School Environment

Chapter 15: Instructional Leadership: Teachers or Administrators

Chapter 16: Academic Freedom: Teacher Rights or Responsibilities

Chapter 17: Teacher Unions: Detrimental or Beneficial to Education

Chapter 18: Inclusion and Mainstreaming: Special or Common Education

Chapter 19: School Violence: School Treatable or Beyond School Control

Index

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