Foundations of Education: Problems and Possibilities in American EducationFoundations of Education is organized around the major problems facing contemporary American education. It offers a thorough, scholarly treatment of these problems from historical, philosophical, and sociological perspectives, bringing together relevant findings from those disciplines to analyze and illuminate a wide range of issues. Each chapter focuses on a core topic (including race, gender, equal opportunities, school governance) to give students a solid overview, providing intellectually sound material that offers real depth and challenges students to think creatively. Packed with exercises, discussion questions, international case studies for comparative purposes and supported by a fully up-to-date companion website, this is a text that responds to current developments, changes, and trends in teacher education. Foundations of Education will prepare a new generation of educators for a globalized and technology-driven society that needs to be aware of its best educational traditions, its current problems and its future possibilities. |
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2 School Governance andControl | 54 |
3 Social Class and Education | 104 |
4 Race and the Education of African American | 155 |
5 Ethnicity and Education | 208 |
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Foundations of Education: Problems and Possibilities in American Education Samuel M. Craver No preview available - 2021 |
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