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Critical issues in education : an anthology of readings /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Provenzo, Eugene F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, [2006]
Subjects:
Education > United States > History.
Educational law and legislation > United States > History.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Educational thought in Western culture
  • Introduction
  • Prologue: modern and postmodern thought
  • "Orientation" editorial for The social frontier (1934) / George S. Counts
  • "The need for transcendence in the postmodern world" (1994) / Vaclav Havel
  • The aims of education
  • "My pedagogic creed" (1897) / John Dewey
  • Cardinal principles of secondary education (1918) / National Education Association
  • "A morally defensible mission for schools in the 21st century" (1997) / Nel Noddings
  • Society and education
  • Selection from notes on the state of Virginia (1781) / Thomas Jefferson
  • "Thoughts upon the mode of education proper in a republic" (1786) / Benjamin Rush
  • Selections from report no. 12 of the Massachusetts School Board (1848) / Horace Mann
  • Selection from Dare the schools build a new social order (1932) / George S. Counts
  • Compulsory schooling, education, and the transmission of culture
  • Massachusetts Compulsory School Law (1852) / General Court of Massachusetts
  • Selection from Compulsory mis-education (1964) / Paul Goodman
  • "Vulnerability in education" (1966) / Jules Henry
  • "The banking model of education" (1970) / Paulo Freire
  • "Why we must disestablish school" (1970) / Ivan Illich
  • Sexuality and education
  • Selection from A vindication of the rights of woman (1792) / Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Seneca Falls declaration (1848) / Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Equal right amendment (1921) / Alice Paul
  • Title IX (1972) / Congress of the United States
  • "The absent presence: patriarchy, capitalism, and the nature of teacher work" (1987) / Patti Lather
  • "A queer youth" (1996) / Paul H. Cottell, Jr
  • "How and why boys under-achieve" (2000) / Wendy Bradford and Colin Noble
  • Race, multiculturalism, and education
  • Laws prohibiting the education of slaves (1830-1832) / General Assembly of the State of North Carolina; General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia; and the General Assembly of Alabama
  • "Industrial education for the negro" (1903) / Booker T. Washington
  • "The talented tenth" (1903) / W. E. B. Du Bois
  • "A talk to teachers" (1963) / James Baldwin
  • "Education for all handicapped children act" (1975) / Congress of the United States of America
  • "Border pedagogy in the age of postmodernism" (1988) / Henry Giroux
  • "Multicultural education and school reform" (2001) / Sonia Nieto
  • Social class and education
  • Selection from Pygmalion in the classroom (1968) / Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson
  • "Social class and the hidden curriculum of work" (1980) / Jean Anyon
  • "Crossing class boundaries" (2000) / Bell Hooks
  • Technology and education
  • Augmenting human intellect (1962) / Douglas Engelbart
  • "How computers contribute to the ecological crisis" (1990) / C.A. Bowers
  • "The field: knowledge in computerized societies" (1979) / Jean-Franc̦ois Lyotard.