Critical Issues in Education : Dialogues and Dialectics
ISBN: 9780073131368 | 0073131369
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 8/4/2006
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This text is ideal for courses that examine current, relevant pro and con disputes about schools and schooling. By presenting divergent perspectives, each written in compelling advocate language, the text's authors encourage the reader to think critically and to develop his or her own views. Three integrating themes provide a solid framework for examining the eighteen issues covered. Each part begins with a chapter-length introduction that provides background material and organizing themes for the issues that follow; each issue is then presente... MORE
| Introduction: Critical Issues and Critical Thinking | |
| What Interests Should Schools Serve? | |
| School Choice: For Family Choice or Against Vouchers | |
| School Finance: Equity or Disparity | |
| School Integration: Compulsory or Voluntary | |
| Gender: Easing Discrimination or Making Legitimate Distinctions | |
| Affirmative Action: Progressive or Restrictive | |
| What Should Be Taugh... MORE | |
| Basic Education: Traditional Disciplines or Critical Thinking | |
| Reading: Phonics or Whole Language | |
| Multicultural Education: Representative or Divisive | |
| Curriculum Control: National or Local | |
| Values and Character: Traditional or Liberational | |
| Business Influence: Positive or Negative | |
| Standardized Testing: Restrict or Expand | |
| How Should Schools Be Organized and Operated? | |
| School Leadership: Teacher-Directed or Administrator-Controlled? | |
| Academic Freedom: Teacher Rights or Responsibility | |
| Teacher Unions: Detrimental or Beneficial | |
| Inclusion and Mainstreaming: Special or Common Education | |
| School Violence: School or Social Responsibility | |
| Privatization of Schools: Boon or Bane | |
| Index | |
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