Critical Issues in Education: An Anthology of Readings
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.
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Eugene Provenzo, a nationally recognized scholar in the social and cultural foundations of education, has edited this collection of significant readings relevant to western ... Biography 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).
Preface : educational thought in western culturePrologue : modern and postmodern thought11"Orientation" editorial for The social frontier72"The need for transcendence in the postmodern world"123"My pedagogic creed"224Cardinal principles of secondary education325"A morally defensible mission for schools in the 21st century"396Selection from Notes on the state of Virginia537"Thoughts upon the mode of education proper in a republic"588Selections from Report No. 12 of the Massachusetts School Board629Selection from Dare the schools build a new social order?7610Massachusetts compulsory school law8411Selection from Compulsory mis-education8812"Vulnerability and education"9213"The banking model of education"10614"Why we must disestablish school"12015Selection from A vindication of the rights of woman13816Seneca Falls Declaration14217Equal Rights Amendment14618Title IX14819"The absent presence : patriarchy, capitalism, and the nature of teacher work"15420"A queer youth"16821"How and why boys under-achieve"17422Laws prohibiting the education of slaves18423"Industrial education for the Negro"18824"The talented tenth"19225"A talk to teachers"19826Education For All Handicapped Children Act20627"Border pedagogy in the age of postmodernism"21028"Multicultural education and school reform"22829Selection from Pygmalion in the classroom24830"Social class and the hidden curriculum of work"25431"Crossing class boundaries"27232Augmenting human intellect28633"How computers contribute to the ecological crisis"28934"The field : knowledge in computerized societies"297
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