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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 social and cultural foundations of education, has edited this collection of significant readings relevant to western traditions of education. Focusing on modern and postmodern ideas, Critical Issues in Education: An Anthology of Readings includes selections from scholars of education ranging from John Dewey and William James to important contemporary writers such as bell hooks, Sonia Nieto, and Henry Giroux. 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 EDUCATION Introduction to Part V 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" (1975) - Congress of the Unit...
