Kaleidoscope : Readings in Education

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• ISBN13: 9780618042807
• ISBN10: 0618042806
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-12
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This text features high-interest readings drawn from contemporary, classic, academic, and popular sources. Many of the newer readings explore current trends in teacher education, such as standards, assessment, diversity, and social issues. The pedagogy includes introductions, post-notes, discussion questions, and a glossary and helps students get the most out of each reading. The new "Education Classics" logo highlights the articles that are considered classics in the field of education. A rationale for deeming the article a "classic" is provided in the pedagogy. The "Kaleidoscope Online" Web site includes approximately 18 articles¿half from the book and half unique to the Web site¿with additional, enhanced pedagogy.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Part One Teachers
The Influence of Teachers	2	(7)
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Jane McCormack
Letter from a Teacher	9	(3)
John C. Crowley
Room to Learn	12	(8)
Greg Michie
Calling in the Cosmos	20	(5)
Margaret Metzger
Reflection Is at the Heart of Practice	25	(5)
Simon Hole
Grace Hall McEntee
The Heart of the Matter	30	(3)
Robert Fried
The Great Teacher Question: Beyond Competencies	33	(7)
Edward R. Ducharme
Why Johnny Can't Fail	40	(4)
Jerry Jesness
Selecting ``Star'' Teachers for Children and Youth in Urban Poverty	44	(7)
Martin Haberman
Developing an Effective Teaching Portfolio	51	(7)
Kenneth Wolf
Part Two Students
Who Is This Child?	58	(2)
Robert D. Barr
Problem Students: The Sociocultural Roots	60	(7)
D. Stanley Eitzen
Boys Call Me Cow	67	(6)
Charol Shakeshaft
Laurie Mandel
Yolanda M. Johnson
Janice Sawyer
Mary Ann Hergenrother
Ellen Barber
How to Create Discipline Problems	73	(5)
M. Mark Wasicsko
Steven M. Ross
At Risk for Abuse: A Teacher's Guide for Recognizing and Reporting Child Neglect and Abuse	78	(7)
Dennis L. Cates
Marc A. Markell
Sherrie Bettenhausen
What Do Students Want (and What Really Motivates Them)?	85	(6)
Richard Strong
Harvey F. Silver
Amy Robinson
On Emotional Intelligence: A Conversation with Daniel Goleman	91	(5)
John O'Neil
What Do We Know from Brain Research?	96	(6)
Pat Wolfe
Ron Brandt
Leaving No Child Behind	102	(4)
Marian Wright Edelman
Part Three Schools
Mythology and the American System of Education	106	(10)
David C. Berliner
A Tale of Two Schools	116	(5)
Larry Cuban
The Big Benefits of Smallness	121	(5)
Deborah W. Meier
Why Some Parents Don't Come to School	126	(6)
Margaret Finders
Cynthia Lewis
Parent Participation: Fad or Function?	132	(8)
James P. Comer
Home Schooling Comes of Age	140	(5)
Patricia M. Lines
Early Lessons of the Charter School Movement	145	(6)
Joe Nathan
Charter Schools: The Smiling Face of Disinvestment	151	(9)
Alex Molnar
Part Four Curriculum
The Saber-Tooth Curriculum	160	(6)
J. Abner Peddiwell
The Paideia Proposal: Rediscovering the Essence of Education	166	(6)
Mortimer J. Adler
The Core Knowledge Curriculum---What's Behind Its Success?	172	(6)
E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
The Quality School Curriculum	178	(6)
William Glasser
Curriculum Integration and the Disciplines of Knowledge	184	(10)
James A. Beane
The Relevance of Religion to the Curriculum	194	(5)
Warren A. Nord
Teaching Themes of Care	199	(8)
Nel Noddings
Mining the Values in the Curriculum	207	(4)
Kevin Ryan
Standards for American Schools: Help or Hindrance?	211	(8)
Elliot W. Eisner
Realizing the Promise of Standards-Based Education	219	(7)
Mike Schmoker
Robert J. Marzano
Part Five Instruction
Engaging Students: What I Learned Along the Way	226	(4)
Anne Wescott Dodd
A Multiplicity of Intelligences	230	(7)
Howard Gardner
Students Need Challenge, Not Easy Success	237	(7)
Margaret M. Clifford
Making the Grade: What Benefits Students?	244	(8)
Thomas R. Guskey
Cooperative Learning and the Cooperative School	252	(9)
Robert E. Slavin
What's All the Noise About? Constructivism in the Classroom	261	(6)
Frank Betts
Context Matters: Teaching in Japan and the United States	267	(11)
Nancy Sato
Milbrey W. McLaughlin
Part Six Foundations
My Pedagogic Creed	278	(7)
John Dewey
The Educated Person	285	(8)
Ernest L. Boyer
The Basis of Education	293	(5)
Robert Maynard Hutchins
The Free and Happy Student	298	(6)
B. F. Skinner
Personal Thoughts on Teaching and Learning	304	(3)
Carl Rogers
The Ethics of Teaching	307	(5)
Kenneth A. Strike
The Teacher's Ten Commandments: School Law in the Classroom	312	(12)
Thomas R. McDaniel
You Ask, ``Why Have School Costs Increased So Greatly During the Last 20 Years?''	324	(6)
Otis K. LoVette
The Return of Character Education	330	(8)
Thomas Lickona
Part Seven Educational Reform
What Matters Most: A Competent Teacher for Every Child	338	(13)
Linda Darling-Hammond
From Aptitude to Effort: A New Foundation for Our Schools	351	(5)
Lauren B. Resnick
New Hope for High Schools: Lessons from Reform-Minded Educators	356	(6)
Theodore R. Sizer
The Who, What, and Why of Site-Based Management	362	(6)
Jane L. David
The Power of Innovative Scheduling	368	(8)
Robert Lynn Canady
Michael D. Rettig
The Educational Consequences of Choice	376	(7)
Paul T. Hill
School Choice: Panacea or Pandora's Box?	383	(9)
Kevin B. Smith
Kenneth J. Meier
Part Eight Educational Technology
The Mad Dash to Compute	392	(5)
Jane M. Healy
Making a Living, Making a Life: Technology Reconsidered	397	(5)
Neil Postman
School Reform in the Information Age	402	(10)
Howard D. Mehlinger
Technology and Equity Issues	412	(8)
Michael N. Milone, Jr.
Judy Salpeter
Technology Changes Intelligence: Societal Implications and Soaring IQs	420	(5)
Robert J. Sternberg
Educating the Net Generation	425	(7)
Don Tapscott
Part Nine Diversity
Multiculturalism: E Pluribus Plures	432	(7)
Diane Ravitch
Multicultural Education in the New Century	439	(4)
James A. Banks
Multicultural Illiteracy	443	(4)
Sandra Stotsky
The Culture/Learning Style Connection: Educating for Diversity	447	(7)
Pat Guild
Where We Stand on the Rush to Inclusion	454	(6)
Albert Shanker
What Do I Do Now? A Teacher's Guide to Including Students with Disabilities	460	(5)
Michael F. Giangreco
School Reform and Student Diversity	465	(6)
Catherine Minicucci
Paul Berman
Barry McLaughlin
Beverly McLeod
Beryl Nelson
Kate Woodworth
The Changing Face of Bilingual Education	471	(6)
Russell Gersten
Shortchanging Girls and Boys	477	(6)
Susan McGee Bailey
Glossary	483	(10)
Index	493	(8)
Article Review Form	501	(2)
Student Response Form	503