Sources : Notable Selections in Education

by SCHULTZ

• ISBN13: 9780072413984
• ISBN10: 0072413980
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-05
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin

Summary

This volume brings together over 40 selections of enduring intellectual value--classic articles, book excerpts, and research studies--that have shaped the studyof education and our contemporary understanding of it.This title is supported by Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online/), a student Web site that provides study support tools and links to links to related Web sites.

Table of Contents

Preface	i
PART ONE Foundations of Education	1	(102)
The Conservative Tradition in Educational Thought	3	(36)
from Horace's Hope: What Works for the American High School	3	(10)
Theodore R. Sizer
from Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know	13	(11)
E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
from The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1945--1980	24	(8)
Diane Ravitch
from ``The Paideia Proposal: Rediscovering the Essence of Education,'' The American School Board Journal	32	(7)
Mortimer Adler
Student Experience Centered---Progressive Education	39	(29)
from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education	39	(6)
John Dewey
from ``The Project Method,'' Teachers College Record	45	(8)
William Heard Kilpatrick
from The Montessori Method	53	(9)
Maria Montessori
from Humanistic Education	62	(6)
C. H. Patterson
Some Alternative Perspectives in Educational Thought	68	(35)
from Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality: A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States, 2d ed.	68	(9)
Joel Spring
from ``Culture, Power and Transformation in the Work of Paulo Freire: Toward a Politics of Education,'' in Henry A. Giroux, Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning	77	(10)
Henry A. Giroux
from Pedagogy of the Oppressed, rev. ed., trans. Myra Bergman Ramos	87	(8)
Paulo Freire
from Deschooling Society	95	(8)
Ivan Illich
PART TWO Curriculum and Instruction	103	(60)
Schooling	105	(15)
from The Open Classroom: A Practical Guide to a New Way of Teaching	105	(5)
Herbert R. Kohl
from The Dewey School: The Laboratory School of the University of Chicago, 1896--1903	110	(10)
Katherine Camp Mayhew
Anna Camp Edwards
Curriculum Theory and Practice	120	(21)
from Curriculum Development: Theory and Practice	120	(11)
Hilda Taba
from Raising Silent Voices: Educating the Linguistic Minorities for the Twenty-First Century	131	(10)
Henry T. Trueba
Curriculum Development and the Language of Educational Debate	141	(22)
from The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy	141	(11)
Christopher Lasch
from ``Multiculturalism and the Postmodern Critique: Toward a Pedagogy of Resistance and Transformation,'' in Henry A. Giroux and Peter McLaren, eds., Between Borders: Pedagogy and the Politics of Cultural Studies	152	(11)
Peter McLaren
PART THREE Schools in a Multicultural Society	163	(66)
The Struggle for Freedom in Education	165	(27)
from Race Matters	165	(6)
Cornel West
from A Speech During the Atlanta Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, September 18, 1895	171	(4)
Booker T. Washington
from The Souls of Black Folk	175	(10)
W. E. B. Du Bois
from ``A Talk to Teachers,'' Saturday Review	185	(7)
James Baldwin
Perspectives on the Struggle for Freedom in Education	192	(19)
from Literacy: Reading the Word and the World	192	(9)
Paulo Freire
Donaldo Macedo
from An Aristocracy of Everyone: The Politics of Education and the Future of America	201	(10)
Benjamin R. Barber
Women and Education	211	(18)
from Eighty Years and More (1815--1897): Reminiscences of Elizabeth Cady Stanton	211	(9)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
from Feminisms and Pedagogies of Everyday Life	220	(9)
Carmen Luke
PART FOUR The American Constitutional Tradition and Education	229	(22)
The Struggle for Civil Liberty in the Schools	231	(20)
U.S. Supreme Court, from Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)	231	(5)
United States Commission on Civil Rights from A Better Chance to Learn: Bilingual-Bicultural Education	236	(6)
American Association of University Women from How Schools Shortchange Girls: A Study of Major Findings on Girls and Education	242	(9)
PART FIVE Perspectives From the Behavioral Sciences	251	(80)
Testing and the Critical Response to It	253	(35)
from The Technology of Teaching	253	(10)
B. F. Skinner
from Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook I: Cognitive Domain	263	(9)
Benjamin S. Bloom
from Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook II: Affective Domain	272	(16)
David R. Krathwohl
Benjamin S. Bloom
Bertram B. Masia
The Cognitive Revolution in Learning	288	(43)
from ``Learning, Remembering, and Understanding,'' in Paul H. Mussen, ed., Handbook of Child Psychology, vol. 3: Cognitive Development, 4th ed.	288	(13)
Ann L. Brown
from ``Teaching Thinking and Problem Solving,'' American Psychologist	301	(7)
John Bransford
from Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice	308	(11)
Howard Gardner
Joseph Walters
from ``Education and the Brain: A Bridge Too Far,'' Educational Researcher	319	(12)
John T. Bruer
PART SIX Society, Culture, and Education	331	(48)
Social Change	333	(17)
from ``Education and Social Change,'' The Social Frontier	333	(9)
John Dewey
from Conflicting Theories of Education	342	(8)
I. L. Kandel
Culture and Education	350	(29)
from ``The Passions of Pluralism: Multiculturalism and the Expanding Community,'' Educational Researcher	350	(12)
Maxine Greene
from Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools	362	(9)
Jonathan Kozol
from Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation	371	(8)
Johanthan Kozol
Acknowledgments	379	(3)
Index	382