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School and Society / Edition 7
- ISBN-10:
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- ISBN-13:
- 9780078024405
- Pub. Date:
- 07/01/2012
- Publisher:
- McGraw-Hill Higher Education
- ISBN-10:
- 0078024404
- ISBN-13:
- 9780078024405
- Pub. Date:
- 07/01/2012
- Publisher:
- McGraw-Hill Higher Education
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780078024405 |
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Publisher: | McGraw-Hill Higher Education |
Publication date: | 07/01/2012 |
Pages: | 504 |
Product dimensions: | 7.90(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.90(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Paul Violas (deceased) was formerly Professor of History of Education in The College of Education at The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has received the College of Education Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, The College Career Teaching Award, and The University’s Luckman Award for Undergraduate Teaching. Professor Violas received his Ed.D. degree at The University of Rochester. He taught secondary school social studies for six years. He has been a regular contributor to journals.
Steven Tozer is Professor of Philosophy of Education at The University of Illinois, Chicago. At The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, he was Head of The Department of Curriculum and Instruction from 1990 to 1994. He has been Chair of The Committee on Academic Standards and Accreditation in The American Education Studies Association and a member of The Board of Examiners for The National Council on Accreditation of Teacher Education. He has written regularly for numerous journals. Professor Tozer completed his Ph.D. at The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has taught at the early childhood, elementary and secondary levels.
Table of Contents
Preface xiv
Part 1 Educational Aims in Historical Perspective 1
Chapter 1 Introduction: Understanding School and Society 2
Introduction: Conducting Inquiry into School and Society 4
The Place of Social Foundations in Teacher Education 4
The Meaning of Democracy in Educational Practice 5
Education of Diverse Students 5
Tools of Inquiry 6
Social Theory 6
Schooling 7
Training 7
Education 8
Political Economy 9
Ideology 9
Analytic Framework 10
Applying the Terms of Inquiry: An Illustration from History 11
Schooling and Culture in Classical Greece 11
Building a Philosophy of Education 15
Primary Source Reading: The Politics of Aristotle 17
Developing Your Professional Vocabulary 20
Questions for Discussion and Examination 20
Online Resources 20
Chapter 2 Liberty and Literacy: The Jeffersonian Ideal 22
Introduction: Why Jefferson? 24
Political Economy of the Jeffersonian Era 25
Geography, Transportation, and Communication 25
Early American Governance 27
Ideology of the Jeffersonian Era 28
The Breakdown of Feudalism 28
The Classical Roots of Liberal Ideology 29
Jefferson as Classical Liberal 33
Jefferson and Intellectual Freedom 34
Jefferson, Democracy, and Education 35
Government by a "Natural Aristocracy" 36
Jefferson's Plan for Popular Education 36
Elementary School Districts 37
Grammar Schools 38
University Education 39
Self-Education 40
Jefferson's Views on Slavery, Native Americans, and Women 41
Building a Philosophy of Education 44
Primary Source Reading: From the Rights of Man 45
Primary Source Reading: Exchange between Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson 46
Developing Your Professional Vocabulary 49
Questions for Discussion and Examination 49
Online Resources 49
Chapter 3 School as a Public Institution: The Common-School Era 50
Introduction: Schooling in New England 52
Political Economy of the Common-School Era 53
Demographic Changes 53
Political Developments 54
Economic Developments 55
Ideology and Religion 56
Consolidation of Classical Liberalism 57
Horace Mann: An Exemplar of Reform 58
Early Life 58
Mann's Political Career 59
Mann and the Common Schools 60
School Buildings 61
Moral Values 62
Lessons from the Prussian School System 64
School Discipline and the Pedagogy of Love 66
The Quality of Teachers 67
The Economic Value of Schooling 70
Opposition to Mann's Common-School Reforms 72
Accounting for the Success of the Common-School Reforms 74
Lessons from Horace Mann's Common-School Reforms 74
Building a Philosophy of Education 75
Primary Source Reading: Decentralization: Alternative to Bureaucracy? 77
Developing Your Professional Vocabulary 80
Questions for Discussion and Examination 80
Online Resources 80
Chapter 4 Social Diversity and Differentiated Schooling: The Progressive Era 82
Introduction: "Traditional" versus "Progressive" Education 84
The Political Economy of the Progressive Era 86
Urbanization 86
Immigration 86
Industrialization 90
Worker Responses to Industrial Management 93
New Liberal Ideology 100
Natural Law 100
Scientific Rationality 101
From Virtue to Rational Ethics 101
Progress 101
Nationalism 102
Freedom 102
Progressive Education 105
Two Strands of Progressivism: Developmental Democracy and Social Efficiency 106
Deweyan Developmental Democracy 107
The Nature of the Child 108
A Unique Meaning for Progressive Education 109
Charles W. Eliot and Social Efficiency 109
Building a Philosophy of Education 116
Primary Source Reading: Education and Social Change 118
Developing Your Professional Vocabulary 123
Questions for Discussion and Examination 123
Online Resources 123
Chapter 5 Diversity and Equity: Schooling Girls and Women 124
Introduction: Why a Separate Chapter on Females? 126
Ideological Origins in Early Christianity 127
Gender and Education in Colonial America 128
Private Schools 130
The Revolution and the Cult of Domesticity 130
Competing Ideological Perspectives in the Nineteenth Century 132
The Conservative and Liberal Positions 132
The Radical Position 134
Catharine Beecher: The Liberal Education of the Homemaker 134
Ideology and Life: Emma Willard 136
A New Vision for Women's Education 136
The Troy Female Seminary 138
Anna Julia Cooper 140
Higher Education for Women 141
Academies 141
Normal Schools 141
High Schools 142
Colleges 143
Women and Vocational Education 144
Domestic Science Training 144
Commercial Education 147
Building a Philosophy of Education 148
Primary Source Reading: Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions 149
Primary Source Reading: The Education of the Girl 151
Developing Your Professional Vocabulary 155
Questions for Discussion and Examination 155
Online Resources 155
Chapter 6 Diversity and Equity: Schooling and African Americans 156
Introduction: Common Schools in the South 158
Political-Economic Dimensions of Reconstruction and Redemption 158
Redemption 159
Reconstruction, Redemption, and African American Schooling 160
Schooling in the Black Belt 161
Booker T. Washington's Career 168
Washington and Schooling in the Black Belt 169
An Ideology of African American Inferiority 172
A Liberal Justification for Racial Oppression: Darwinian Evolution 172
Avoiding the Issue of Political Power 173
A Liberal Faith: Social Progress through the Marketplace 174
The Washington Solution 176
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois 179
Building a Philosophy of Education 181
Primary Source Reading: Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others 184
Developing Your Professional Vocabulary 190
Questions for Discussion and Examination 190
Online Resources 190
Chapter 7 Diversity and Equity: Schooling and American Indians 192
Introduction: Assimilation through Scientific Management 194
Pluralism versus Assimilationism 195
Political-Economic Foundations of Indian Schooling 197
A World before Europeans 197
The Ambiguous and Paradoxical 197
Treaties and the "Trust Relationship" 198
Ideology 200
Traditional Knowledge versus Science and Progress 200
Schooling the Native American 201
Social Education, from Land Allotment to Boarding Schools 202
The Progressive Reform Movement 202
Scientific Management and Educational Reform 203
"Progressive" Indian Education: Early Years 204
The Influence of John Collier 205
Collier's Early Career 206
Collier as Commissioner of Indian Affairs 207
Willard Walcott Beatty: Progressive Education for Native Americans 210
Schooling and Assimilation of the Indian Child 212
Afterword: The Case of the Navajo 212
Building a Philosophy of Education 214
Primary Source Reading: The Hopi Way (1944) 214
Primary Source Reading: Statements by Three American Indian Educators 216
Developing Your Professional Vocabulary 221
Questions for Discussion and Examination 221
Online Resources 221
Chapter 8 National School Reform: The Early Cold War Era 222
Introduction: The Best and Brightest... 224
Political Economy and Ideology of the Early Cold War Era 225
U.S. Fear of Soviet Communism 225
New Liberal Ideology in the Cold War Era 227
James Bryant Conant 230
Standardized Testing and Student Selection 231
Who Merits a College Education? 232
School Reform Reports and Social Stratification 233
Education in a Divided World 234
School Reform in the Postwar Era 235
The Great Talent Hunt 237
Slums and Subversives 240
Building a Philosophy of Education 243
Primary Source Reading: Excerpts from "Education for All" 246
Developing Your Professional Vocabulary 249
Questions for Discussion and Examination 249
Online Resources 249
Part 2 Educational Aims in Contemporary Society 251
Chapter 9 Liberty and Literacy Today: Contemporary Perspectives 252
Introduction: Revisiting Literacy 254
A Brief Historical Perspective 256
Literacy and Power: Literacy as a Social Construction 257
Ideological Hegemony Theory: Democracy and the Consolidation of Economic Power 258
Mass Media and Ideological Hegemony 260
The Paradox of Media Property Rights and Public Information Rights: From NBC to GE to Comcast 261
Communications Technologies: From Jefferson's "Free Marketplace of Ideas" to the "Information Marketplace" 263
The Rise of Social Media 264
Contemporary Perspective on Literacy: Conventional Literacy 268
Functional Literacy 269
Limitations of the Functional Literacy Perspective 270
Critical Literacy 271
Critical Literacy Method 272
Cultural Literacy: Arguments for High-Status Curriculum 274
Cultural Literacy: Whose Interests Are Served? 274
Schooling and Ideological Hegemony 276
Building a Philosophy of Education 279
Primary Source Reading: The Future of Reading 281
Developing Your Professional Vocabulary 286
Questions for Discussion and Examination 286
Online Resources 286
Chapter 10 Teaching in a Public Institution: The Professionalization Movement 288
Dominant Ideology and the Teacher's Professional Authority 290
1 Using the Authority of the Rules to Educate 293
2 The Authority of the Expert 293
3 Pedagogical Authority: The Authority of Community 293
The Professional Teacher: Remembering Horace Mann 295
Professionalization of Teaching: Historical Perspective 296
Common-School Reform 296
Progressive Era Reform 297
Conant Era Reform 297
Professionalism and Contemporary School Reform 298
Comparing Teaching to Other Professions 299
Professionalism versus Neoliberal Market Competition 300
Traditional Criteria for the Professions 303
Teaching as a Public Profession 304
Teaching "Job" versus Teaching Profession: The Issue of Professional Control 305
Political-Economic Dimensions of Teaching as a Public Profession 306
Public Control versus Professional Autonomy 311
Who Controls the Schools? Who Should? 311
Statutory Control Structure 313
Who Controls the Schools? Extralegal Influences 315
Professional Satisfaction and Professional Ethics 316
Teaching and Teacher Learning as Collaborative Activities 319
Democratic Ethics and the Profession of Teaching 320
Building a Philosophy of Education 320
Primary Source Reading
Making Teaching a Profession 322
Developing Your Professional Vocabulary 323
Questions for Discussion and Examination 323
Online Resources 323
Chapter 11 Differentiated Schooling, Labor Market Preparation, and Contemporary School Reform: The Post-Cold War Era 324
Introduction: The Purposes of Schooling 326
The Future of the Workplace 328
Future Jobs 328
Educating for the Workplace 329