This is a core text in two parts for courses in teacher education, aimed at providing a broad, interdisciplinary analysis of the school-society relationship. Part One examines educational issues in the historical context in which they appeared, whilst Part Two examines the contemporary context.

School and Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Politics & Social Sciences

Violas, Paul C.

Senese, Guy B.

Tozer,Steven

Sociology

Mcgraw-Hill College

<p>A core text for the Social Foundations course, this book provides an analytic framework that shows how and why certain school-society issues first arose in this country and changed over time. It also contains readings at the end of each chapter, which the student critiques using the same analytic framework as the authors employ in the text. This edition will expand the treatment of educational minorities and women, and will further refine the section on the the professionalism of teaching. The third edition will also include contemporary issues such as school choice, charter schools and privitization. Other new coverage includes: the role of technology in the literacy chapter, current data on education and schools in the United States today, legal and extra-legal issues like school law, and extended case discussion of contemporary American Indian education.</p>

Part One of this text examines educational themes in the historical context in which they first appeared. Corresponding Part Two chapters return to these themes and examine them in their contemporary contexts. Throughout, the relationship between social conditions, prevailing ideologies and educational practice is stressed. Unlike most texts on foundations of education, this book integrates the concepts and perspectives from several disciplines into its analysis of the school/society relationship. Each chapter ends with an original source reading that students are asked to analyze using the same analytical, critical thinking concepts used throughout the text.

School and Society: Educational Practice As Social Expression

Simulation, Spectacle, and the Ironies of Education Reform (Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series)

<p>As long as there is good money to be made from ignoring or cultivating the ignorance of working people, education for their children in the best sense is going to be a difficult goal. This book delineates in three case studies how our main myths of emancipation and upward mobility work as images of delusion. The frontier of space, the arena of sports, and the goal of employment, all essential elements in the discourse of reform, provide big windows into the absurd interior of the dreamscape of rhetorical hope that lay over the official landscape. The teacher has been replaced by the user-friendly, standardized trainer/coach/cooperative facilitator who works in the swamps of student minds so drained by consumerism that false consciousness cannot even grow. Reading the meaning of death in the ring, death in the rocket, murder in the workplace, Senese makes us notice the simulated, spectacular effects that distract from the important educational work that educators must do in this post-industrial world.</p>

Social Sciences

Praeger

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

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School and Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

School and Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

School and Society: Educational Practice As Social Expression

Simulation, Spectacle, and the Ironies of Education Reform (Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series)

Simulation, Spectacle, and the Ironies of Education Reform (Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series)