Critical Issues in Education: Dialogues and Dialectics
Critical Issues in Education is designed to be used in courses that examine current, relevant pro and con disputes about schools and schooling. By exploring the major opposing viewpoints on these issues, the text encourages education students to think critically and develop their own viewpoints. The clear writing and dramatic dialectic approach are conducive to dynamic classroom discussions that help students grasp the many sides of these complex issues. Three integrating themes provide a...
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Critical Issues in Education is designed to be used in courses that examine current, relevant pro and con disputes about schools and schooling. By exploring the major opposing viewpoints on these issues, the text encourages education students to think critically and develop their own viewpoints. The clear writing and dramatic dialectic approach are conducive to dynamic classroom discussions that help students grasp the many sides of these complex issues. Three integrating themes provide a solid framework for examining the eighteen topics covered. Each part begins with a chapter-length introduction that provides background material and organizing themes for the issues that follow. Each issue is then presented from two divergent viewpoints, each one written in advocate language to be as compelling as possible. The book's objective, in addition to informing the reader about the issues, is to develop critical thinking skills within the context of education.
1Introduction : critical issues and critical thinking12School choice : family or public funding563Financing schools : equity or disparity814Gender equity : eliminating discrimination or accommodating differences1045Standards-based reform : real change or political smoke screen1256Religion and public schools : unification or separation1477Privatization of schools : boon or bane1708Corporations, commerce, and schools : complementing or competing interests1999The academic achievement gap : old remedies or new24310Values/character education : traditional or liberational26811Multicultural education : democratic or divisive29512Technology and learning : enabling or subverting31513Standardized testing : restrict or expand34514Discipline and justice : zero tolerance or discretion37615Teachers unions and school leadership : detrimental or beneficial39716Academic freedom : teacher responsibilities or rights41517Inclusion and mainstreaming : common or special education44118Violence in schools : school treatable or beyond school control470
