A core text for the Foundations course, School and Society provides an analytic framework that shows how and why certain school-society issues first arose in this country and how they changed over time. In its examination of the evolution of education in the United States, this book tells an engaging historical story. 
The text’s analytical framework focuses on the political economy, dominant ideology, and existing educational practices that are prevalent in any one historical era. Chapter 1 explains and illustrates this framework in detail. Readings at the end of each chapter, are designed for the student to critique using the same analytic framework as the authors employ in the text. 
This edition adds a new Chapter 15 to wrap things up and look to the future and new material on youth culture, teacher assessment tests (PRAXIS, subject area exams, portfolio assessment), recent legal issues, technology in education, parent-teacher relations, and cultural awareness and respect. In addition to a new, more open design and updated photos, the revision incorporates for the first time specific pedagogical elements designed to help students. These new pedagogical elements include Chapter Overviews, Chapter Objectives, Timelines, Developing Your Professional Vocabulary, Thinking Critically About the Issues, and Web Sites of Interest.

School and Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Fourth Edition

Tozer, Steven E

Violas, Paul C.

Senese,Guy

Business & Money

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Through the use of a consistent analytic framework, this text shows how and why certain school-society issues first arose in this country and how they have changed over time. Introduced and explained in detail in the first chapter, the text’s analytic framework focuses on the political economy, the dominant ideology, and existing educational practices that are prevalent in any given historical era. Readings at the end of each chapter are designed for the student to critique using the same analytic framework that the authors employ in the text. In its examination of the evolution of education in the United States, this book tells an engaging historical story.

School and Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

"School and Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, eighth edition, is designed for courses in teacher education and school leadership commonly labeled School and Society, Social Foundations of Education, History and Philosophy of Education, or simply Foundations of Education. Such courses may be offered at the introductory or at more advanced levels in professional preparation programs, at undergraduate or graduate levels. Their purpose is to help prepare educators who are able to reflect critically on their teaching practices in social and institutional contexts. With this in mind, we built the following features into our text"--

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

McGraw=Hill

This text continues to focus on the dominant political, philosophical, and cultural ideologies of each historical era. The authors use a variety of pedagogical methods to tell an engaging historical story about school and society that will encourage students to create an educational philosophy of their own. This material will help prepare educators who are able to reflect critically on their teaching practices in social and institutional contexts. There are many new primary source readings that have been added throughout the entire text. Students will also benefit from the expanded discussions on charter schools, Native American issues and contemporary social changes that affect the culture of teaching.

Looseleaf for School and Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

A comprehensive analysis of the astonishing changes that elevated the Chicago public school system from one of the worst in the nation to one of the most improved.&nbsp; &nbsp; How a City Learned to Improve Its Schools tells the story of the extraordinary thirty-year school reform effort that changed the landscape of public education in Chicago. Acclaimed educational researcher Anthony S. Bryk joins five coauthors directly involved in Chicago's education reform efforts, Sharon Greenberg, Albert Bertani, Penny Sebring, Steven E. Tozer, and Timothy Knowles, to illuminate the many factors that led to this transformation of the Chicago Public Schools.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Beginning in 1987, Bryk and colleagues lay out the civic context for reform, outlining the systemic challenges such as segregation, institutional racism, and income and resource disparities that reformers grappled with as well as the social conflicts they faced. Next, they describe how fundamental changes occurred at every level of schooling: enhancing classroom instruction; organizing more engaged and effective local school communities; strengthening the preparation, recruitment, and support of teachers and school leaders; and sustaining an ambitious evidence-based campaign to keep the public informed on the progress of key reform initiatives and the challenges still ahead. The power of this capacity building is validated by unprecedented increases in benchmarks such as graduation rates and college matriculation. This riveting account introduces key actors within the schools, city government, and business community, and the partnerships they forged. It also reveals the surprising yet essential role of Chicago's innovative information infrastructure in aligning disparate initiatives.&nbsp; &nbsp; In making clear how elements such as advocacy, civic capacity, improvement research, and strong democracy contributed to large-scale progress in the system's 600-plus schools, the book highlights the greater lessons that the Chicago story offers for system improvement overall.&nbsp;

How a City Learned to Improve Its Schools (Continuous Improvement in Education Series)

Bryk, Anthony S.

Greenberg, Sharon

Bertani, Albert

Sebring, Penny

Knowles, Timothy

Harvard Education Press

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Tozer, Steven E. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Tozer, Steven E