Exploring Education: An Introduction to the Foundations of Education - Softcover

Sadovnik, Alan R.; Cookson Jr., Peter W.; Semel, Susan F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205290167 ISBN 13: 9780205290161

Publisher: Pearson, 2000

Synopsis

Based upon the belief that a “foundations perspective” is a valuable tool in helping to improve schools, this non-traditional text combines a point-of-view analysis with primary source readings.

Exploring Education, 2/e, offers an alternative to traditional foundations texts. This book provides primary readings and a text in one source, challenging material that encourages critical and reflective thinking, and a point of view about the possibilities and limits of schools and teachers in solving educational problems.

Pre-service and practicing teachers will find a solid introduction to the foundations disciplines ― history, philosophy, politics, and sociology of education ― and their application to educational issues including school organization and teaching, curriculum and pedagogic practices, education and inequality and school reform and improvement. Exploring Education, 2/e, provides a research and theory based approach that demonstrates the usefulness of the foundations lens for critically examining and solving educational problems.

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From the Back Cover

This text offers an alternative to traditional foundational texts by combining a point-of-view analysis with primary source readings. Pre-service and practicing teachers will find a solid introduction to the foundations disciplines ― history, philosophy, politics, and sociology of education ― and their application to educational issues including school organization and teaching, curriculum and pedagogic practices, education and inequality, and school reform and improvement.

Features:

• Incorporates primary source readings that reflect the most updated perspectives and data, giving students illustrations of concepts and providing opportunities for critical and reflective thinking.
• Includes current achievement data representing the effects of educational reform.
• Offers a point of view that balances realistic analysis of problems and solutions called the foundations perspective. This provides prospective teachers with a view of the opportunities and possibilities of school reform.
• Discusses the separate foundations disciplines ― politics, history, philosophy, sociology ― that make up the foundations perspective giving students a base for understanding each of the foundations.
• Addresses the interdisciplinary application of foundations disciplines to educational problems and solutions showing students the interdisciplinary nature of the foundations perspective.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205290167
• ISBN 13: 9780205290161
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 588