Sources: Notable Selections in Education

This volume brings together over 40 selections of enduring intellectual value--classic articles, book excerpts, and research studies--that have shaped the studyof education and our contemporary understanding of it.This title is supported by Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online/), a student Web site that provides study support tools and links to links to related Web sites.

Part 1. Foundations of Education

CHAPTER 1. The Conservative Tradition in Educational Thought

1.1. Theodore R. Sizer, from Horace's Hope: What Works for the American High School

1.2. E. D. Hirsch, Jr., from Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know

1.3. Diane Ravitch, from The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1945-1980

1.4. Mortimer Adler, from "The Paideia Proposal: Rediscovering the Essence of Education", The American School Board Journal

CHAPTER 2. Student Experience Centered--Progressive Education

2.1. John Dewey, from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

2.2. William Heard Kilpatrick, from "The Project Method", Teachers College Record

2.3. Maria Montessori, from The Montessori Method

2.4. C. H. Patterson, from Humanistic Education

CHAPTER 3. Some Alternative Perspectives in Educational Thought

3.1. Joel Spring, from Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality: A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States

3.2. Henry A. Giroux, from "Culture, Power and Transformation in the Work of Paulo Freire: Toward a Politics of Education", in Henry A. Giroux, Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning

3.3. Paulo Freire, from Pedagogy of the Oppressed, rev. ed., trans. Myra Bergman Ramos

3.4. Ivan Illich, from Deschooling Society

Part 2. Curriculum and Instruction

CHAPTER 4. Schooling

4.1. Herbert R. Kohl, from The Open Classroom: A Practical Guide to a New Way of Teaching

4.2. Katherine Camp Mayhew and Anna Camp Edwards, from The Dewey School: The Laboratory School of the University of Chicago, 1896-1903

CHAPTER 5. Curriculum Theory and Practice

5.1. Hilda Taba, from Curriculum Development: Theory and Practice

5.2. Henry T. Trueba, from Raising Silent Voices: Educating the Linguistic Minorities for the Twenty-First Century

CHAPTER 6. Curriculum Development and the Language of Educational Debate

6.1. Christopher Lasch, from The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy

6.2. Peter McLaren, from "Multiculturalism and the Postmodern Critique: Toward a Pedagogy of Resistance and Transformation", in Henry A. Giroux and Peter McLaren, eds., Between Borders: Pedagogy and the Politics of Cultural Studies

Part 3. Schools in a Multicultural Society

CHAPTER 7. The Struggle for Freedom in Education

7.1. Cornel West, from Race Matters

7.2. Booker T. Washington, from A Speech During the Atlanta Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, September 18, 1895

7.3. W. E. B. Du Bois, from The Souls of Black Folk

7.4. James Baldwin, from "A Talk to Teachers", Saturday Review

CHAPTER 8. Perspectives on the Struggle for Freedom in Education

8.1. Paulo Freire and Donaldo Macedo, from Literacy: Reading the Word and the World

8.2. Benjamin R. Barber, from An Aristocracy of Everyone: The Politics of Education and the Future of America

CHAPTER 9. Women and Education

9.1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, from Eighty Years and More (1815-1897): Reminiscences of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

9.2. Carmen Luke, from Feminisms and Pedagogies of Everyday Life

Part 4. The American Constitutional Tradition and Education

CHAPTER 10. The Struggle for Civil Liberty in the Schools

10.1. U.S. Supreme Court, from Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)

10.2. United States Commission on Civil Rights, from A Better Chance to Learn: Bilingual-Bicultural Education

10.3. American Association of University Women, from How Schools Shortchange Girls: A Study of Major Findings on Girls and Education

Part 5. Perspectives From the Behavioral Sciences

CHAPTER 11. Testing and the Critical Response to It

11.1. B. F. Skinner, from The Technology of Teaching

11.2. Benjamin S. Bloom et al., from Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook I: Cognitive Domain

11.3. David R. Krathwohl, Benjamin S. Bloom, and Bertram B. Masia, from Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook II: Affective Domain

CHAPTER 12. The Cognitive Revolution in Learning

12.1. Ann L. Brown et al., from "Learning, Remembering, and Understanding", in Paul H. Mussen, ed., Handbook of Child Psychology, vol. 3: Cognitive Development, 4th ed.

12.2. John Bransford et al., from "Teaching Thinking and Problem Solving", American Psychologist

12.3. Howard Gardner and Joseph Walters, from Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice

12.4. John T. Bruer, from "Education and the Brain: A Bridge Too Far", Educational Researcher

Part 6. Society, Culture, and Education

CHAPTER 13. Social Change

13.1. John Dewey, from "Education and Social Change", The Social Frontier

13.2. I. L. Kandel, from Conflicting Theories of Education

CHAPTER 14. Culture and Education

14.1. Maxine Greene, from "The Passions of Pluralism: Multiculturalism and the Expanding Community", Educational Researcher

14.2. Jonathan Kozol, from Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

14.3. Jonathan Kozol, from Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation