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This volume brings together over 40 selections of enduring intellectual value--classic articles, book excerpts, and research studies--that have shaped the studyof education and our contemporary understanding of it.This title is supported by Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online/), a student Web site that provides study support tools and links to links to related Web sites.

Preface

PART ONE Foundations of Education

(102)

The Conservative Tradition in Educational Thought

(36)

from Horace's Hope: What Work... MORE

(10)

Theodore R. Sizer

from Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know

(11)

E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

from The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1945--1980

(8)

Diane Ravitch

from ``The Paideia Proposal: Rediscovering the Essence of Education,'' The American School Board Journal

(7)

Mortimer Adler

Student Experience Centered---Progressive Education

(29)

from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

(6)

John Dewey

from ``The Project Method,'' Teachers College Record

(8)

William Heard Kilpatrick

from The Montessori Method

(9)

Maria Montessori

from Humanistic Education

(6)

C. H. Patterson

Some Alternative Perspectives in Educational Thought

(35)

from Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality: A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States, 2d ed.

(9)

Joel Spring

from ``Culture, Power and Transformation in the Work of Paulo Freire: Toward a Politics of Education,'' in Henry A. Giroux, Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning

(10)

Henry A. Giroux

from Pedagogy of the Oppressed, rev. ed., trans. Myra Bergman Ramos

(8)

Paulo Freire

from Deschooling Society

(8)

Ivan Illich

PART TWO Curriculum and Instruction

103

(60)

Schooling

105

(15)

from The Open Classroom: A Practical Guide to a New Way of Teaching

105

(5)

Herbert R. Kohl

from The Dewey School: The Laboratory School of the University of Chicago, 1896--1903

110

(10)

Katherine Camp Mayhew

Anna Camp Edwards

Curriculum Theory and Practice

120

(21)

from Curriculum Development: Theory and Practice

120

(11)

Hilda Taba

from Raising Silent Voices: Educating the Linguistic Minorities for the Twenty-First Century

131

(10)

Henry T. Trueba

Curriculum Development and the Language of Educational Debate

141

(22)

from The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy

141

(11)

Christopher Lasch

from ``Multiculturalism and the Postmodern Critique: Toward a Pedagogy of Resistance and Transformation,'' in Henry A. Giroux and Peter McLaren, eds., Between Borders: Pedagogy and the Politics of Cultural Studies

152

(11)

Peter McLaren

PART THREE Schools in a Multicultural Society

163

(66)

The Struggle for Freedom in Education

165

(27)

from Race Matters

165

(6)

Cornel West

from A Speech During the Atlanta Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, September 18, 1895

171

(4)

Booker T. Washington

from The Souls of Black Folk

175

(10)

W. E. B. Du Bois

from ``A Talk to Teachers,'' Saturday Review

185

(7)

James Baldwin

Perspectives on the Struggle for Freedom in Education

192

(19)

from Literacy: Reading the Word and the World

192

(9)

Paulo Freire

Donaldo Macedo

from An Aristocracy of Everyone: The Politics of Education and the Future of America

201

(10)

Benjamin R. Barber

Women and Education

211

(18)

from Eighty Years and More (1815--1897): Reminiscences of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

211

(9)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

from Feminisms and Pedagogies of Everyday Life

220

(9)

Carmen Luke

PART FOUR The American Constitutional Tradition and Education

229

(22)

The Struggle for Civil Liberty in the Schools

231

(20)

U.S. Supreme Court, from Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)

231

(5)

United States Commission on Civil Rights from A Better Chance to Learn: Bilingual-Bicultural Education

236

(6)

American Association of University Women from How Schools Shortchange Girls: A Study of Major Findings on Girls and Education

242

(9)

PART FIVE Perspectives From the Behavioral Sciences

251

(80)

Testing and the Critical Response to It

253

(35)

from The Technology of Teaching

253

(10)

B. F. Skinner

from Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook I: Cognitive Domain

263

(9)

Benjamin S. Bloom

from Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook II: Affective Domain

272

(16)

David R. Krathwohl

Benjamin S. Bloom

Bertram B. Masia

The Cognitive Revolution in Learning

288

(43)

from ``Learning, Remembering, and Understanding,'' in Paul H. Mussen, ed., Handbook of Child Psychology, vol. 3: Cognitive Development, 4th ed.

288

(13)

Ann L. Brown

from ``Teaching Thinking and Problem Solving,'' American Psychologist

301

(7)

John Bransford

from Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice

308

(11)

Howard Gardner

Joseph Walters

from ``Education and the Brain: A Bridge Too Far,'' Educational Researcher

319

(12)

John T. Bruer

PART SIX Society, Culture, and Education

331

(48)

Social Change

333

(17)

from ``Education and Social Change,'' The Social Frontier

333

(9)

John Dewey

from Conflicting Theories of Education

342

(8)

I. L. Kandel

Culture and Education

350

(29)

from ``The Passions of Pluralism: Multiculturalism and the Expanding Community,'' Educational Researcher

350

(12)

Maxine Greene

from Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

362

(9)

Jonathan Kozol

from Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

371

(8)

Johanthan Kozol

Acknowledgments

379

(3)

Index

382

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