Foundations Of Educational Thought

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ISBN: 9781412945868 | 1412945860
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Copyright: 4/28/2008

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This landmark study brings together a comprehensive collection of readings on Educational Thought from Antiquity to the Present. It includes four volumes and over 100 different selections: Vol 1: Classic/Early Modern (to 1945) Vol 2: Modern (1945-1979) Vol 3/4: Postmodern (1979-present) From Montaigne to Chomsky, the editor has included articles from some of the Western world's most influential educational thinkers alongside authoritative voices from the field to show a full spectrum of ideas about Education, its purpose and objectives. The first volume includes a lead essay by the editor on the nature of Educational Thought and the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education. Each volume also includes its own introduction. Taken together, the volumes provide an unparalleled resource featuring broad coverage of the subject with historical depth and contemporary relevance.

Classic/Early Modern (Antiquity to 1945)
Editor's Introduction: Understanding the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education
Introduction to Volume 1
Early Modern and Modern (to 1929)
Of Education
Of Custom and Education
Selection from The Great Didactic
Of Education
Selections from the Orbis Pictus Sensualium
Selections from Some Thoughts Concerning Education
The Education of Women
Selection from The Spirit of Laws - Montesquieu
Selection from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Selection from Émile
Selection from Notes on the State of Virginia
Of the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic
Selections from Leonard and Gertrude
On National Education
On Education
An Address to the Public; Particularly to the Members of the Legislature of New York, Proposing a Plan for Improving Female Education
Selection from Improvements in Education, as It Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community
The Education of Human Nature
Selection from the First Annual Report to the Massachusetts State Board of Education
Report No. 12 of the Massachusetts School Board
On Education
Report of the Committee of Ten - National Education Association
My Pedagogic Creed
The Function of Education in Democratic Society
Psychology and the Art of Teaching
Child Study and Its Relation to Education
Educational Methods
On Education and Society
Industrial Education for the Negro
The Talented Tenth
The School and Social Progress
The Contribution of Psychology to Education
History of Methods
The Uses of Intelligence Tests
A Modern School
Aims in Education
The Project Method
The Problem of the School
The Aims of Education
The American Experimental School
Modern (1932-1979)
Introduction to Volume 2: Modern (to 1979)
Selection from Dare the Schools Build a New Social Order
Orientation
On Education
The Crisis in Contemporary Education
A Manifesto on Democracy and Education in the Current Crisis - Faculty of Teachers College, Columbia University
As We May Think
The School in American Culture
The Tradition of the West
Schools and Systems of Social Status
The Role of Government in Education
Forward to A.S. Neill's Summerhill
A Talk to Teachers
Vulnerability and Education
Chapter 1, Life in Classrooms
Should the Teacher Always Be Neutral?
Student Social Class and Teacher Expectations
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in Ghetto Education
Why We Must Disestablish School
The Adult Literacy Process as Cultural Action for Freedom
The Process of Education Revisited
Handle with Care
Necessary Precautions in the Anthropology of Schooling
Unequal Education and the Reproduction of the Social Division of Labor
Volunteerism to Bureaucracy in American Education
Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction
Public Education and the Education of the Public
The Means of Correct Training
Class and Pedagogies: Visible and Invisible
Servitude of the Mind? Education, Dependency, and Neocolonialism
In Pursuit of Equity, Ethics, and Excellence: The Challenge to Close the Gap
Can Our Schools Get Better?
Postmodern Educational Thought (1979-)
Introduction to Volume 3 and 4: Postmodern (1979 - )
Introduction
Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work
Curriculum as Cultural Reproduction:
An Examination of Metaphor as a Carrier of Ideology
The Day Our Children Disappear
Predictions of a Media Ecologist
A Concept of Power for Education
Excluding Women from the Educational Realm
Bodyreading
Valuing Teachers
The Making of a Profession
Imagination and Learning
On Listening to What the Children Say
Teaching as Research
In Search of a Critical Pedagogy
The Functions and Uses of Literacy
The Silenced Dialogue
Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children
Postmodernism and the Discourse of Educational Criticism
Metaphor and Meaning in the Language of Teachers
The Violation of People at Work in Schools
Multicultural Education as a Form of Resistance to Oppression
Why Doesn't This Feel Empowering? Working Through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy
Democratic Education in Difficult Times
Post-Critical Pedagogies
A Feminist Reading
Radical Pedagogy as Cultural Politics
Beyond the Discourse of Critique and Anti-Utopianism
The Three Curricula that all Schools Teach
Feminist Politics in Radical Pedagogy
Dreamt Into Existence by Others
Curriculum Theory and School Reform
Educational Reform and the Ecology of Schooling
Excellence as a Guide to Educational Conversation
Beyond the Methods Fetish
Toward a Humanizing Pedagogy
Democracy and Education
Engaged Pedagogy
When Basic Skills and Information Processing Just Aren't Enough
Rethinking Read in New Times
The Challenges of National Standards in a Multicultural Society
Dancing with Bigotry
The Poisoning of Racial and Ethnic Identities
Rewriting the Discourse of Racial Identity
Towards a Pedagogy and Politics of Whiteness
The Death of Child Nature
Education in the Postmodern World
Theory Practice and the Education of Professionals
Curriculum, After Culture, Race, Nation
Social Justice, Curriculum, and Spirituality
New Standards, Old Inequalities
The Current Challenge for African-American Education
Summary
The Universal Right to Education
The Care Tradition: Beyond 'Add Women and Stir'
Toward an Eco-Justice Pedagogy
Globalizing Education
Perspectives from Above and Below
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World
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