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Foundations of Education
ISBN: 9780618474066 | 0618474064
Edition: 9thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Pub. Date: 12/22/2004
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"Foundations of Education "incorporates relevant interdisciplinary perspectives and emphasizes coverage of key issues in education, with up-to-date research, primary resources, and documentation. This text provides comprehensive and substantive coverage of all "foundational" areas--including social, philosophical, historical, political, economic, curricular, and legal--for students who are preparing for a career in teaching and for those who simply wish to learn more about significant contemporary issues in education. The authors have included ... MORE
| Understanding the Teaching Profession | |
| Motivation, Status, and Preparation of the Teacher | |
| Choosing a Career in Teaching | |
| Status and Supply of Teachers | |
| Preparation of Teachers Efforts to Improve the Teaching | |
| Force Diversity of the Teaching | |
| Force: A Growing Concern Educational Reform and Teacher | |
| Empowerment Outlook for Teaching | |
| T... MORE | |
| Trends Toward Professionalism Teacher | |
| Organizations General Professional Organizations for Teachers | |
| Historical Foundations | |
| World Roots of American Education Education in Preliterate Societies | |
| Education in Ancient Chinese Civilization | |
| Education in Ancient Indian Civilization | |
| Education in Ancient Egyptian Civilization | |
| Education in Ancient Greek and Roman Civilizations | |
| Arabic Learning and Education | |
| Medieval Culture and Education | |
| Renaissance Classical Humanism | |
| The Religious Reformation and Education | |
| The Enlightenment''s Influence on Education | |
| Pioneers in Education Comenius | |
| The Search for a New Method Locke | |
| Empiricst Educator Rousseau | |
| Educating the Natural Person Pestalozzi | |
| Educator of the Senses and Emotions Froebel | |
| The Kindergarten Movement Spenser | |
| Social Darwinist and Utilitarian Educator Dewey | |
| Learning Through Experience Montessori | |
| The Prepared Environment Piaget | |
| Developmental Growth Illich | |
| Deschooling Society | |
| Historical Development of American Education | |
| The Colonial Period | |
| The Early National Period | |
| The Movement Toward Public Schooling | |
| The Development of American Secondary Schools | |
| The American College and University Education in a Culturally | |
| Diverse Society Recent Historical Trends | |
| Political, Economic, and Legal Foundations | |
| Governing and Administering Public Education | |
| Local Responsibilities and Activities | |
| Intermediate Units State Responsibilities and Activities | |
| The Federal Role in Education Nonpublic Schools | |
| Financing Public Education | |
| Tax Sources of School Revenues Local | |
| Financing of Public Schools State | |
| Financing of Public Schools Federal Education | |
| Funding School Finance Trends | |
| Legal Aspects of Education | |
| The Court System Teachers'' Rights and Responsibilities Students'' | |
| Rights and Responsibilities | |
| Religion and the Schools Affirmative | |
| Action and Educational Equity | |
| Social Foundations | |
| Culture, Socialization, and Education Culture and Education | |
| Agents of Socialization | |
| Sex Roles and Sex Differences Adolescent and Youth Problems | |
| Social Class, Race, and School Achievement | |
| Social Class and Success in School Race, Ethnicity, and School Success | |
| Reasons for Low Achievement Among Low-Status Students | |
| Do Schools Equalize Opportunity? | |
| Traditional Versus Revisionist Interpretations | |
| Providing Equal Educational Opportunity | |
| Desegregation Compensatory | |
| Education Multicultural Education | |
| Education for Students with Disabilities | |
| Philosophical and Curricular Foundations | |
| Philosophical Roots of Education | |
| Special Terminology Idealism | |
| Realism Pragmatism Existentialism | |
| Educational Theories | |
| Progressivism Social Reconstructionism | |
| Perennialism Essentialism Critical Theory | |
| Building Your Own Philosophy of Education | |
| The Purposes of Education Establishing | |
| Goals and Objectives Historical Perspective | |
| The Call for Excellence Swings of the Pendulum | |
| Curriculum and Instruction | |
| Curriculum Organization | |
| Issues in Curriculum Development Instructional | |
| Approaches Emerging Curriculum | |
| Trends: An Agenda for the Future | |
| Effective Education: International and American Perspectives | |
| International Education Commonalities in Educational Systems | |
| Differences in Educational | |
| Systems and Outcomes Exemplary | |
| Reforms: A Selection Problems and Prospects in Developing Countries | |
| School Improvement Projects and Research | |
| Conclusion: U.S. Schools in an International Context | |
| School Effectiveness and Reform in the United States | |
| Imperatives to Improve the Schools | |
| Characteristics of Effective Classrooms and Schools | |
| Recent Efforts to Increase School | |
| Effectiveness At-Risk Students and Dropouts | |
| The Process of School Improvement and Reform | |
| Related Efforts to Improve School | |
| Effectiveness Systemic Restructuring and Reform | |
| Conclusion: The Challenge for Education | |
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