The social foundations reader : critical essays on teaching, learning and leading in the 21st century / edited by Eleanor Blair and Yolanda Medina.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blair, Eleanor, editor.

Medina, Yolanda, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical pedagogy.

Education--Social aspects.

Education.

Physical Description:

xv, 363 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2016]

Summary:

The Social Foundations Reader is meant for undergraduate and graduate students in introductory foundations of education classes. No other contemporary reader provides such a broad and yet critical view of the issues typically addressed in an introductory foundations course. Instead, most provide a generic and typically conservative perspective on schools and classrooms and do little to encourage students to consider the important roles of critical theory and social justice in the creation of school environments that are responsive to issues of equity and diversity. This book provides a different lens through which students can view what happens in twenty-first-century schools while also considering the perspectives of multiple constituencies: parents, teachers, students and communities. The reader of this text is exposed to a wide range of scholarship in the foundations of education; essays range from the more traditional work of John Dewey to the controversial ideas of Henry Giroux. Contested topics associated with teaching, learning and leading in contemporary public schools are considered within a context where grappling with the answers to fundamental questions that will ultimately guide meaningful school reform is an essential part of becoming an educator. Each of the five sections in the book is accompanied by an introduction and summary/reflection questions to both guide reading and challenge students to think critically about how to synthesize and apply the ideas being presented. Book jacket.

Contents:

A Pedagogy of Hopelessness : Fear and Loathing in 21st-Century Schools / Eleanor J. Blair

My Pedagogic Creed / John Dewey

Finding Hope Among the Hopeless / Pedro A. Noguera

What I Learned About School Reform / Diane Ravitch

Disability Justifies Exclusion of Minority Students : A Critical History Grounded in Disability Studies / D. Kim Reid and Michelle G. Knight

Equality of Educational Opportunity : Race, Gender, and Special Needs / Joel Spring

Transforming Educational Leadership Without Social Justice : Looking at Critical Pedagogy as More than a Critique, and Way Toward "Democracy" / Paul R. Carr

Race and Pedagogy / Aaron David Gresson III

Introduction in Critical Pedagogy, (2nd Edition) / Joe L. Kincheloe

Art Education Programs : Empowering Social Change / Yolanda Medina

The Invisibility of Oppression / Özlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo

Teaching Is Leading / Michelle Collay

Going Against the Grain / Mary Cowhey

Teaching from the Test : Using High-Stakes Assessments to Enhance Student Learning / Julie A. Gorlewski

"Too young for the marches but I remember these drums" : Recommended Pedagogies for Hip-Hop-Based Education and Youth Studies / Bettina L. Love

The Issue of Identity / Yolanda Medina

The Story of Cesar Chavez High School : One Small School's Struggle for Biliteracy / Sandra Liliana Pucci and Gregory J. Cramer

Warm Demanders : The Importance of Teachers in the Lives of Children of Poverty / Lisa Delpit

In Defense of Public School Teachers in a Time of Crisis / Henry A. Giroux

Starting points : Assumptions and alternatives / Patricia H. Hinchey

But That's Just Good Teaching! : The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy / Gloria Ladson-Billings

Wrong Answer to the Wrong Question : Why We Need Critical Teacher Education, Not Standardization / Barbara Madeloni and Julie A Gorlewski

Community / Angela Anselmo and Alma Rubal-Lopez

"What I know about Spanish is that I don't talk it much" : Bilingual Fifth-grade Students' Perceptions of Bilingualism / Sandra A. Butvilofsky

A Distinctly Un-American Idea: An Education Appropriate to Their Station / Patrick J. Finn

Enabling or Disabling? : Observations on Changes in Special Education / James M. Kauffman, Kathleen McGee,and Michelle Brigham

Selling Out : Parenting, the Realities of Urban Education, and the Hidden Curriculum in Schools / C. Kronen

What Mathew Shepard Would Tell Us : Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education / Doug Risner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781433129414

9781433129421

1433129426

1433129418

OCLC:

928239056

Publisher Number:

99967974554