Contributor
Blair, Eleanor.
Imprint:Boulder, CO : Westview Press, c2011.
Descriptionxv, 543 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Part I: What are the Aims and Purposes of Education? : -- Conflict and consensus revisited: note toward a reinterpretation of American educational history / Carl F. Kaestle -- A past for the present: history, education, and public policy / Donald R. Warren -- Intellectual capital: a civil right / E. D. Hirsch, Jr. -- Learning from the past / Larry Cuban and David Tyack -- We want it all / John I. Goodlad -- Part II: What Should be the Content of the Curriculum? : -- The shifting ground of curriculum thought and everyday practice / William Ayers -- But that's just good teaching! The case for culturally relevant pedagogy / Gloria Ladson-Billings -- The banking concept of education / Paulo Freire -- Markets, standards, God, inequality / Michael W. Apple -- The silenced dialogue: power and pedagogy in educating other people's children / Lisa D. Delpit -- Part III: What are the Roles and Responsibilities of Teacher Leaders? : -- Teachers as transformative intellectuals / Henry A. Giroux -- On the frontier of school reform with trailblazers, pioneers, and settlers / Phillip C. Schlechty -- How to build leadership capacity / Linda Lambert -- Against the grain / Marilyn Cochran-Smith -- What are we doing here? Building a framework for teaching / Joe L. Kinchloe.
Note:Part IV: What are the Roles and Responsibilities of Students? : -- Adequate schools and inadequate education: the life history of a sneaky kid / Harry F. Wolcott -- Educators, homosexuality, and homosexual students: are personal feelings related to professional beliefs? / James T. Sears -- At-risk children and the common school ideal / Barry M. Franklin -- Silencing and nurturing voice in an improbably context: urban adolescents in public school / Michelle Fine -- Standing for students, standing for change / George Wood -- PART V: What are the Issues that Impact Twenty-First-Century Schools? : -- Grouping the gifted and talented: questions and answers / K. B. Rogers -- Let's declare education a disaster and get on with our lives / Frank Smith -- The professionally challenged teacher: teachers talk about school failure / Eleanor Blair Hilty -- The educational costs of standardization / Linda McNeil -- From "Separate but Equal" to "No Child Left Behind": the collision of new standards and old inequalities / Linda Darling-Hammond -- Closing the achievement gap by detracking / Carol Corbett Burris and Kevin G. Welner -- Still separate, still unequal: America's educational apartheid / Jonathan Kozol -- Talking about race, learning about racism: the application of racial identity development theory in the classroom / Beverly Daniel Tatum -- Come and listen to a story: understanding the Appalachian hillbilly in popular culture / Mary Jean Ronan Herzog -- Rethinking education in a technological world / Allan Collins and Richard Halverson.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"Designed specifically for students with little or no education background, Thinking About Schools is an essential collection of classic and contemporary readings that provides a complete, balanced overview of educational foundations. Anchored in classic scholarship from the 1960s to today, this book also incorporates a number of thought-provoking popular essays that will engage students and encourage critical thinking about vital issues concerning the purpose of education, curriculum content, the roles and responsibilities of students and teachers, and new directions for education in the twenty-first century. In addition to selecting each reading for its impact and accessibility, editor Eleanor Blair Hilty further promotes student comprehension by including introductions, discussion questions, guides to further reading, and related resources for each of the five parts"-- Provided by publisher.
