Critical Issues in Education: Dialogue and Dialectics - Softcover

Nelson, Jack L.; Etc.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 007228661X ISBN 13: 9780072286618

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 1999

Synopsis

This text is designed to be used in courses that examine relevant pro-and-con disputes about schools and schooling. It explores the major opposing viewpoints on these issues and encourages students to develop critical thinking skills and to grasp the many sides of these complex issues.

About this title

From the Publisher

The fourth edition includes updated research and scholarship and updated bibliographic references.
Three new chapters explore the pros and cons of 'Beginning Reading - Is there one best approach to literacy?', 'Gender - Should gender differences affect schools and schooling?', and 'Mainstreaming and Inclusion - How should we provide for students with special needs?'.
Comprehensive and Flexible -Balanced, pro-and-con coverage is given to the most hotly debated issues in education today. The modest price permits it to be used either as a core text in issue-oriented courses or as a supplement in courses devoted partly to issues.
Integrating Themes -Each of the book's major parts begins with a chapter-length introduction that provides background information and introduces a theme that ties the issues together.
Critical Thinking Skills -Each of the book's issues chapters presents two convincingly argued, alternative positions on a particular issue. The idea is not only to inform the reader about the issues but, through the debate format, force the reader to weigh the arguments, seek additional information, and come up with his or her own position.
Organizing Framework -The issues have been arranged in a macro-to-micro scheme. They move from a consideration of the overall purposes of schooling to the curriculum, teaching, and evaluation considerations that flow out of those purposes.

About the Author

Jack L. Nelson a professor of education at Rutgers, obtained his doctorate from the University of Southern California. He is experienced teacher in schools at the elementary, secondary, undergraduate, and graduate levels; his university teaching experience includes California State University, Los Angeles; the State University of New York at Buffalo; San Jose State University; and Cambridge University. Nelson has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University, University of Colorado; and Curtin University and the University of Sydney in Australia. Critical Issues in Education is his sixteenth book; he has also published about 150 articles and reviews. He is listed in Whos Who in America and Contemporary Authors.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 007228661X
• ISBN 13: 9780072286618
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 528