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Educational foundations : an anthology of critical readings

Educational Foundation: An Anthology of Critical Readings, Second Edition, answers these questions and more, providing an exciting alternative to other foundation textbooks. This anthology is aimed at students about to enter the teaching profession, those new to the profession, and anyone interested in carefully examining schools and schooling. In this Second Edition, editors Alan S. Canestrari and Bruce A. Marlowe add new essays by classic and contemporary policy shapers and teachers. Each essay was selected for its ability to engage readers and provoke them to reflect on the current and enduring issues of teaching. Key features: Encourages discussion and debate through provocative essays that provide readers with opportunities to think critically about teaching and learning; includes brief introductory vignettes that raise probing questions about teaching and learning and provide context for the essays that follow
Print Book, English, ©2010
Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, Calif., ©2010
xv, 234 pages ; 23 cm
9781412974387, 1412974380
302189276
Teacher man / Frank McCourt
The green Monongahela / John Taylor Gatto
Death at an early age : the destruction of the hearts and minds of Negro children in the Boston public schools / Jonathan Kozol
Why teach? / Herbert Kohl
What should teachers do? Ebonics and culturally responsive instruction / Lisa Delpit
Racism, discrimination, and expectations of students' achievement / Sonia Nieto
Challenging deficit thinking / Lois Weiner
Inclusion : rejecting instruction that disables / Bruce A. Marlowe, Marilyn Page
The banking concept of education / Paulo Freire
On stir-and-serve recipes for teaching / Susan Ohanian
Psst ... it ain't about the tests: it's still about great teaching / Robert DiGiulio
So what do you do now? / Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner
The idea of Summerhill / A.S. Neill
Success in East Harlem: how one group of teachers built a school that works / Deborah Meier
ch. When learning matters : using learning plans to educate one student at a time / Elliot Washor
Beyond the deficit paradigm : an ecological orientation to thriving urban schools / Kelly Donnell
A mania for rubrics / Thomas Newkirk
Grading : the issue is not how but why? / Alfie Kohn
The standards fraud / William Ayers
Learning to love assessment / Carol Ann Tomlinson
Teachers as transformative intellectuals / Henry Giroux
Resistance and courage : a conversation with Deborah Meier
Speaking in a critical voice / Marilyn Page
From silence to dissent: fostering critical voice in teachers / Alan S. Canestrari, Bruce A. Marlowe
The quest : achieving ideological escape velocity
becoming an activist teacher / Ann Gibson Winfield