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ISBN-10 : 0429975309
ISBN-13 : 9780429975301
Author : Eleanor Blair Hilty
This book considers how American public education came to be the way it is today. It helps students to have a better sense of how the past informs the present and how questions regarding who is served best by the schools tell us about the goals and aspirations of present-day schools in America.
Thinking about Schools 1st Table of contents:
PART I WHAT ARE THE AIMS AND PURPOSES OF EDUCATION?
Part I Introduction
1 Conflict and Consensus Revisited: Notes Toward a Reinterpretation of American Educational History
2 A Past for the Present: History, Education, and Public Policy
3 Intellectual Capital: A Civil Right
4 Learning from the Past
5 We Want It All
Part I Additional Resources
Discussion Questions
Guide to Further Reading
Related Resources
PART II WHAT SHOULD BE THE CONTENT OF THE CURRICULUM?
Part II Introduction
6 The Shifting Ground of Curriculum Thought and Everyday Practice
7 But That’s Just Good Teaching! The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
8 The Banking Concept of Education
9 Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality
10 The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People’s Children
Part II Additional Resources
Discussion Questions
Guide to Further Reading
Related Resources
PART III WHAT ARE THE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF TEACHER LEADERS?
Part III Introduction
11 Teachers as Transformative Intellectuals
12 On the Frontier of School Reform with Trailblazers, Pioneers, and Settlers
13 How to Build Leadership Capacity
14 Against the Grain
15 What Are We Doing Here? Building a Framework for Teaching
Part III Additional Resources
Discussion Questions
Guide to Further Reading
Related Resources
PART IV WHAT ARE THE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF STUDENTS?
Part IV Introduction
16 Adequate Schools and Inadequate Education: The Life History of a Sneaky Kid
17 Educators, Homosexuality, and Homosexual Students: Are Personal Feelings Related to Professional Beliefs?
18 At-Risk Children and the Common School Ideal
19 Silencing and Nurturing Voice in an Improbable Context: Urban Adolescents in Public School
20 Standing for Students, Standing for Change
Part IV Additional Resources
Discussion Questions
Guide to Further Reading
Related Resources
PART V WHAT ARE THE ISSUES THAT IMPACT TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY SCHOOLS?
Part V Introduction
21 Grouping the Gifted and Talented: Questions and Answers
22 Let’s Declare Education a Disaster and Get On with Our Lives
23 The Professionally Challenged Teacher: Teachers Talk About School Failure
24 The Educational Costs of Standardization
25 From “Separate but Equal” to “No Child Left Behind”: The Collision of New Standards and Old Inequalities
26 Closing the Achievement Gap by Detracking
27 Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid
28 Talking About Race, Learning About Racism: The Application of Racial Identity Development Theory in the Classroom
29 Come and Listen to a Story: Understanding the Appalachian Hillbilly in Popular Culture
30 Rethinking Education in a Technological World
Part V Additional Resources
Discussion Questions
Guide to Further Reading
Related Resources
About the Editor and Contributors
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