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Essentials of American Education, MyLabSchool Edition
ISBN: 9780205464630 | 0205464637
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Allyn & Bacon
Pub. Date: 1/1/2003
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This new text offers solid coverage of the most relevant introduction to teaching and foundations topics in education today.From the authors of the best selling Introduction to the Foundations of American Education, 12/e text comes this brief new text created to meet the needs of tomorrows teachers. This new text provides a broad introduction to teaching and foundations based on interesting, current discussion of important theory and practice. This text offers a thorough overview of the teaching profession, standards, assessment and the histori... MORE
| The Profession of Teaching | |
| Viewing Education Through Professional Lenses | |
| Teaching as a Profession | |
| Education Headlines: No Crisis, But Trouble on the Way | |
| Today''s Teachers | |
| Teaching as a Profession | |
| Debate: Should Nationally Certified Teachers Be Paid More? | |
| Professional Dilemma: Who Is Cheating Now? | |
| Relevant Research: Making Mea... MORE | |
| Global Perspective: Education International | |
| Challenges Affecting Teachers | |
| Beginning and Continuing a Teaching Career | |
| School and Society | |
| Viewing Education through Sociological Lenses | |
| Diversity in Society | |
| Education Headlines: Little Newcomers in a Strange Land | |
| Culture and Society | |
| Diversity and Education | |
| Socioeconomic Status | |
| Ethnicity and Race | |
| Relevant Research: Development of Racial and Gender Identity | |
| Gender | |
| Global Perspective: Poverty, Illiteracy, and School Attendance in China | |
| Language | |
| Professional Dilemma: Communicating with Parents of English Language Learners | |
| Exceptionalities | |
| Debate: Are Too Many Kids Labeled Gifted? | |
| Religion | |
| Geography | |
| Cultural Identity | |
| Education That Is Multicultural | |
| Education Headlines: Internet at School Is Changing Work of Students-and Teachers | |
| Undergirding Tenets | |
| Global Perspectives: Antiracist and Multicultural Education | |
| Culture of the School | |
| Culturally Relevant Teaching | |
| Debate: Should We Correct Students'' Grammar All the Time, Every Time? | |
| Educational Challenges Relevant Research: Boys and Girls in Performance-Based Science Classrooms | |
| Teachers as Social Activists | |
| Professional Dilemma: Harassment in Schools | |
| Governance and Support of American Education | |
| Viewing Education through Organizational Lenses | |
| Organizing and Paying for American Education | |
| Education Headlines: Study: School Choice Popular; Academic Results Are Unclear | |
| The Structure of the American Education System | |
| Professional Dilemma | |
| The Financing of Education: Sources of Funds and The Move from Equity to Adequacy | |
| Relevant Research: Reform of School Finance in Michigan | |
| Debate: Has Student Fundraising Gone Too Far? | |
| Education Spending | |
| Global Perspectives: International Comparisons in Spending for Schools | |
| Historical Foundations of Education | |
| Viewing Education through Historical Lenses | |
| The Role of Education in the Developing Nation | |
| Education Headlines: Why Study History? | |
| Providing Education in the New World | |
| Global Perspectives: Educational Transplantation from Europe | |
| Relevant Research: Critiquing Historical Sources | |
| Global Perspectives: European Beginnings of Teacher Training | |
| Debate: Should NEA Affiliates Help Get Rid of Bad Teachers? | |
| Education for Special Populations | |
| Global Perspectives: Maria Montessori | |
| Professional Dilemma: Can a Teacher Both Defend and Criticize Past and Present Schools? | |
| Bibliography | |
| Using Recent History to Improve Student Learning | |
| Education Headlines: Is History Knowable? | |
| More Students and Bigger Schools | |
| Debate: Should Seat Belts Be Mandatory on School Buses? | |
| Relevant Research: Student Homework | |
| A Developing Profession | |
| Global Perspectives: Jean Piaget | |
| Professional Dilemma: How Can the Busy Teacher Keep Up with Historical and Contemporary Research? | |
| Global Perspectives: Educators'' Worldwide Responsibility | |
| Philosophical Foundations of Education | |
| Viewing Education through Philosophical Lenses | |
| Educational Theory in American Schools: Philosophy in Action | |
| Education Headlines: A Wake Up Call | |
| Authoritarian Educational Theories | |
| Debate: Should Today''s Education Be Relevant to Tomorrow''s Job Market? | |
| Nonauthoritarian Educational Theories | |
| Professional Dilemma: Homogeneous or Heterogeneous Ability Grouping? | |
| Relevant Research: Developing Authentic Assessments | |
| Global Perspectives: Looking Bey | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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