Educational Foundations : An Anthology of Critical Readings

by Canestrari, Alan; Marlowe, Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780761930303
• ISBN10: 0761930302
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-10
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
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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	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
About the Editors	xv
Part I. Why Teach?	1	(32)
Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year	3	(5)
Esme Codell
The Green Monongahela	8	(7)
John Taylor Gatto
Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools	15	(6)
Jonathan Kozol
Horace's Compromise	21	(12)
Theodore Sizer
Part II. Who Are Today's Students?	33	(64)
What Should Teachers Do? Ebonics and Culturally Responsive Instruction	35	(9)
Lisa Delpit
Racism, Discrimination, and Expectations of Students' Achievement	44	(20)
Sonia Nieto
Full Inclusion as Disclosing Tablet: Revealing the Flaws in Our Present System	64	(14)
Mara Sapon-Shevin
Making the Most of the Classroom Mosaic	78	(19)
Bruce Marlowe
Marilyn Page
Part III. What Makes a Good Teacher?	97	(42)
The Banking Concept of Education	99	(13)
Paulo Freire
On Stir-and-Serve Recipes for Teaching	112	(8)
Susan Ohanian
Psst...It Ain't About the Tests: It's Still About Great Teaching	120	(6)
Robert DiGiulio
So What Do You Do Now?	126	(13)
Neil Postman
Charles Weingartner
Part IV. What Do Good Schools Look Like?	139	(34)
The Paideia Proposal: Rediscovering the Essence of Education	141	(9)
Mortimer Adler
When Learning Matters: Using Learning Plans to Educate One Student at a Time	150	(11)
Elliot Washor
What to Look for in a Classroom	161	(4)
Alfie Kohn
The Idea of Summerhill	165	(8)
A. S. Neill
Part V. How Should We Assess Student Learning?	173	(30)
Grading: The Issue Is Not How But Why?	175	(9)
Alfie Kohn
The Courage to Be Constructivist	184	(11)
Martin G. Brooks
Jacqueline Grennon Brooks
The Standards Fraud	195	(4)
William Ayers
A Mania for Rubrics	199	(4)
Thomas Newkirk
Part VI. How Does One Develop a Critical Voice?	203	(26)
Teachers as Transformative Intellectuals	205	(8)
Henry Giroux
Resistance and Courage	213	(4)
Deborah Meier
Speaking in a Critical Voice	217	(5)
Marilyn Page
Developing a Critical Voice	222	(7)
Alfie Kohn
Epilogue	229	(10)
Index	239