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Informationen zum Autor Gene Provenzo is one of the nation’s leading scholars in the foundations of education. He holds the rank of full professor at the University of Miami. He has won numerous awards throughout his career in both teaching and research and sits on many editorial boards. He has authored over ten books and has contributed chapters to many more. He has authored scores of articles in a wide range of areas in education. His recent projects include Teaching, Learning, and Schooling (Allyn & Bacon, 2002), a critically-oriented introduction to the foundations of education textbook, and the forthcoming Readings in Educational Thought (SAGE, 2005). Klappentext Eugene Provenzo, a nationally recognized scholar in the foundations of education, has edited this collection of significant interdisciplinary documents relevant to western traditions of education. He will also provide commentary and analysis throughout in the form of original essays and head notes. After a brief essay on classical and pre-modern education, he will focus on modern and post modern ideas. The book is weighted toward the modern and post-modern because most instructors give these periods the most attention. This book will include selections from theorists ranging roughly from Dewey, Montessori and William James through such important present day writers as William Pinar, Bell Hooks, Lisa Delpit, and Henry Giroux. The book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate instructors and students from a wide range of foundational courses. Individual scholars will also be interested in adding this volume to their shelves. Zusammenfassung Presents a collection of significant interdisciplinary documents relevant to western traditions of education. This book provides a commentary and an analysis throughout in the form of original essays and head notes. After a brief essay on classical and pre-modern education! it focuses on modern and post modern ideas. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: Educational Thought in Western Culture PROLOGUE Introduction to Prologue "Orientation" (1934) - George S. Counts "The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World" (1994) - Vaclav Havel PART I: THE AIMS OF EDUCATION Introduction to Part I "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 PART II: SOCIETY AND EDUCATION Introduction to Part II Selection from Notes on the State of Virginia (1781) - Thomas Jefferson On 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 PART III: COMPULSORY SCHOOLING, EDUCATION, AND THE TRANSMISSION OF CULTURE Introduction to Part IIII 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 Selection from Deschooling Society (1970) - Ivan Illich PART IV: SEXUALITY AND EDUCATION Introduction to Part IV Selection from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) - Mary Wollstonecraft The 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, Colin Noble, and Ted Wragg PART V: RACE, MULTICULTURALISM, AND EDU...
