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The History of American Education A Great American Experiment

ISBN: 9780130136497 | 0130136492
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 3/22/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
For courses in the Historical Foundations of Education. The History of American Education: A Great American Experiment offers a critical analysis of the history of American education by constantly asking readers to analyze and reflect on their own beliefs and educational experiences throughout their reading. This text uses the availability of new historical sources and new interpretive methodologies to encourage students to actively think about history, recognize alternative interpretations of historic information, and understand how the educational system has evolved in the United States over time.
Philosophy and Education
2(40)
Branches of Philosophy
4(1)
Metaphysics: What Is the Nature of Reality?
... MORE		4(1)
Epistemology: What Is the Nature of Knowledge?
4(1)
Axiology: What Is the Nature of Values?
4(1)
Traditional Philosophies and Their Educational Implications
5(7)
Idealism
5(3)
Realism
8(2)
Theistic Realism (Thomism)
10(2)
Contemporary Philosophies and Their Educational Implications
12(7)
Pragmatism
12(2)
Existentialism
14(3)
Analytic Philosophy
17(2)
Philosophies of Education
19(16)
Perennialism
19(4)
Progressivism
23(2)
Essentialism
25(2)
Social Reconstructionism
27(2)
Postmodernism
29(6)
Primary Source Reading: The Allegory of the Cave
35(2)
Plato
Primary Source Reading: Preparing for Today and Tomorrow
37(5)
Elliot W. Eisner
Education in the Old World and the ``New'' Old World Before Jamestown
42(24)
The Renaissance and Education
44(1)
Education During the Reformation
45(2)
Luther
45(1)
Calvin
46(1)
Vernacular Schools
47(1)
Spanish and French Exploration and Education in the New World
47(6)
New Spain
48(1)
Spanish Missions of La Florida
48(1)
Mission Schools in the Southwest
49(2)
New France
51(2)
Education of Native Peoples in Precolonial America
53(7)
Basic Courses of Native Education
55(1)
Native Philosophy of Education
56(1)
Core Values of Native Educational Practice
57(3)
Primary Source Reading: The Education of Young Children
60(3)
Desiderius Erasmus
Primary Source Reading: The Socialization of Nampeyo
63(3)
Barbara Kramer
Education in Colonial America
66(38)
Education in the New England Colonies
68(11)
Massachusetts Education Laws of 1642 and 1647
69(1)
Elementary Schooling
70(4)
Instruction and Instructional Materials
74(2)
Secondary Education: Latin Grammar Schools
76(1)
Supervision and Support of the Schools
77(1)
Higher Education in Early New England
78(1)
Education in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies
79(4)
Influence of Denominational Variations
79(1)
New York
80(1)
New Jersey
81(1)
Pennsylvania
81(2)
Delaware
83(1)
Education in the Southern Colonies
83(4)
Influence of Social and Economic Systems
83(1)
Elementary and Secondary Education
84(2)
Higher Education: The College of William and Mary
86(1)
Education During the Later Colonial Period
87(5)
Impact of the Enlightenment
87(2)
Impact of Social and Economic Changes on Education
89(1)
Rise of the Academy
90(1)
Expansion of Higher Education
91(1)
The Colonial Schoolmaster
92(3)
Teacher Licensing and Pay
94(1)
Education of Minorities in Colonial America
95(3)
Primary Source Reading: A Dame School in Plymouth, Massachusetts
98(2)
Laura Russell
Primary Source Reading: School-Management (Schul-ordnung)
100(4)
Christopher Dock
Education in the Revolutionary and Early National Periods
104(32)
Education Under the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution
106(1)
Northwest Land Ordinances of 1785 and 1787
106(1)
Nationalism and Education
107(1)
Republican Educational Theorists
108(6)
Thomas Jefferson
108(2)
Benjamin Rush
110(2)
Noah Webster
112(2)
New Providers of Elementary Education
114(2)
Monitorial Schools
114(1)
Sunday Schools
115(1)
Infant Schools
116(1)
Town and District Schools: Organization and Instruction
116(2)
Growth of the Academy
118(4)
Academies for Women
119(3)
Emergence of the Public High School
122(1)
Developments in Higher Education in the Early National Period
123(2)
Defense of the Classical Curriculum: The Yale Report of 1828
124(1)
Dartmouth College Case
125(1)
Education of Women in the New Republic: The Cult of Domesticity
125(3)
Primary Source Reading: A New England District School, circa 1801
128(2)
Primary Source Reading: A Plan for Improving Female Education
130(6)
Emma Willard
The Common School Movement
136(34)
Moving Forces
138(4)
Changing Demographics: A Larger, More Diverse, and Urban Population
138(1)
Demands of a Growing Working Class
139(1)
Social Control
139(1)
The Frontier Movement
140(1)
Extended Suffrage
140(1)
Education Journals and Organizations
140(2)
Protestant Religious Accommodation
142(1)
Leading Proponents of the Common School
142(4)
Horace Mann
142(2)
James G. Carter
144(1)
Henry Barnard
145(1)
Catherine Beecher
145(1)
Opposition to the Common School Movement
146(1)
Growth of State and Local Support and Supervision
146(5)
Increased Tax Support
146(2)
Creation of State Boards and State Superintendents of Education
148(1)
Development of Local School Districts and Superintendents
148(2)
Regional Variations
150(1)
Teaching and Textbooks in the Common Schools
151(4)
Pestalozzian Influence
153(2)
The Failure of the Common Schools: The Schooling of Catholics
155(1)
Education of Teachers
156(6)
Establishment of Normal Schools
158(2)
Teacher Institutes
160(2)
Primary Source Reading: Proposal for Tax-Supported Schools
162(4)
Thaddeus Stevens
Primary Source Reading: Intolerance in the City of Brotherly Love
166(4)
Jim Carnes
Education in the Post-Civil War Era
170(42)
The Kindergarten Movement
172(1)
The Secondary School Movement
173(10)
The Kalamazoo Case and Increased Tax Support
174(2)
Compulsory Attendance and Increased Literacy
176(1)
NEA Committee of Ten and the Standardization of the Curriculum
177(1)
Seven Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education
177(2)
The Manual Training Movement
179(1)
Vocational Education
180(1)
The Comprehensive High School
181(1)
Emergence of the Junior High School
182(1)
Expansion of Higher Education
183(6)
The Morill Acts and the Land Grant College Movement
183(1)
Higher Education for Women
184(3)
Emergence of the Modern University
187(2)
Founding of Junior Colleges
189(1)
Improved Teacher Training and Professionalism
189(5)
Strengthening of the Normal School Curriculum and Standards
189(1)
Universities Enter Teacher Training
190(1)
Teacher Certification
191(1)
Teacher Organizations
192(2)
New Directions in the Education of Native Americans and African Americans
194(8)
From Mission Schools to Public Schools: 150 Years of Indian Education
194(3)
Education of Free and Freed Blacks
197(1)
The Higher Education Debate: Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois
198(2)
Segregation of the Public Schools
200(2)
Primary Source Reading: Some Aspects of Kindergarten
202(6)
Susan E. Blow
Primary Source Reading: Summer School Teacher
208(4)
W.E.B. DuBois
The Progressive Era in Education
212(30)
Population and National Growth
214(1)
Politics and Economic Growth: The Bright and Dark Sides
214(4)
Progressive Reformers
218(1)
Changes in Education
218(3)
Progressivism in Education
221(6)
Administrative Progressivism: The Efficiency Movement
221(2)
Pedagogical Progressivism
223(4)
Child Study Movement
227(1)
The Measurement Movement
228(2)
Progressive Education After the War
230(1)
Progressive Education Association
231(1)
Influence of the Progressive Education Movement on Higher Education
231(2)
Primary Source Reading: The Problem of the Children
233(4)
Jacob A. Riis
Primary Source Reading: Court Decisions versus Social Progress
237(5)
Ella Flagg Young
Depression, War and National Defense
242(38)
The Depression Begins
244(1)
Impact of the Depression on Education
245(4)
New Deal Education Programs
249(3)
Civilian Conservation Corp
249(1)
National Youth Administration
249(1)
Public Works Administration
250(1)
Works Projects Administration
250(1)
General Federal Aid Debate
251(1)
The Indian New Deal
252(2)
Efforts to Refocus the Schools and the Curriculum
254(2)
Social Reconstructionism
254(1)
The Eight-Year Study
255(1)
William C. Bagley and the Essentialists
256(1)
Impact of the Second World War on the Schools
256(6)
Impact of the War on Elementary and Secondary Schools
258(1)
Impact of the War on Higher Education
259(1)
Higher Education and the War Effort
259(3)
Education in the Postwar Era
262(2)
Life Adjustment Education and the Education Critics of the 1950s
262(2)
Curriculum Reform in the Aftermath of Sputnik
264(4)
New Learning Theories
267(1)
Education and the Red Scare
268(3)
Primary Source Reading: Dare the Schools Build a New Social Order?
271(3)
George S. Counts
Primary Source Reading: A Teacher at Topaz
274(6)
Eleanor Gerard Sekerak
The Struggle for Equal Educational Opportunity: 1954-1980
280(40)
The Civil Rights Movement
282(1)
School Desegregation
282(5)
The Carrot and the Stick: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
284(3)
Education and the War on Poverty
287(2)
Expanding the Rights of Language Minority Youth
289(1)
Indian Education and the Drive for Self-Determination
290(2)
Expanding Educational Opportunities for Mexican Americans
292(2)
The Education of Asian Americans
294(3)
The First to Come: Chinese Americans
294(1)
Japanese Americans
295(2)
Gender Equity in Education
297(3)
Expanding Access to Children with Disabilities
300(2)
School Finance Reform
302(3)
The Students' Rights and Antiwar Movements
305(5)
Primary Source Reading: U.S. Supreme Court, Brown v. Board of Education
310(3)
Primary Source Reading: Indian Education: A National Tragedy by U.S. Senate Special Subcommittee on Indian Education
313(7)
Renewed Conservatism and Reform
320(38)
Conservatism Takes Center Stage
322(1)
The School Reform Movement
323(8)
Reform: The First Wave
326(1)
Reform: The Second Wave
326(3)
Reform: The Third Wave
329(2)
Essentialism, Perennialism, and Progressivism Revisited
331(2)
National Goals, National Standards, and Accountability
333(4)
School Choice
337(3)
Vouchers
338(1)
Charter Schools
338(1)
Private Contractors
339(1)
Cultural and Gender Wars
340(5)
Bilingual Education Debate
340(2)
Multicultural Education Under Fire
342(1)
Gender Wars
343(1)
Resegregation
344(1)
The End of a Presidency, a Decade, a Century
345(2)
Primary Source Reading: The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools
347(4)
D. C. Berliner
B. J. Biddle
Primary Source Reading: An Educator's Primer on the Gender War
351(7)
David Sadker
Education in the New Century
358(24)
An Education President, Again
360(1)
No Child Left Behind and the New Federal Role
360(1)
Expanded State and Local Responsibilities
361(1)
Raising the Stakes on High-Stakes Testing and Accountability
362(3)
Sanctions
365(2)
Teacher Crisis: Issues of Quantity and Quality
367(3)
Funding an Adequate Education
370(1)
Brown + 50: What's Changed, What's Not
371(2)
The Achievement Gap
373(1)
Resegregation
374(1)
School Choice
374(3)
Primary Source Reading: Taproots for a New Century: Tapping the Best of Traditional and Progressive Education
377(5)
David B. Ackerman
References382(11)
Name Index393(2)
Subject Index395


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