Critical issues in democratic schooling : curriculum, teaching, and socio-political realities / Kenneth Teitelbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teitelbaum, Kenneth, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy and education--United States.

Democracy and education.

United States.

Education--Aims and objectives--United States.

Education.

Education--Aims and objectives.

Teaching--Methodology.

Teaching.

Multicultural education--United States.

Multicultural education.

Educational sociology--United States.

Educational sociology.

Physical Description:

xiii, 295 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Summary:

"Focusing on a wide range of critical issues, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the linkage of different educational ideas, policies, and practices to a commitment for democratic schooling. Informed by significant, interdisciplinary research, as well as by his own extensive professional experiences as a teacher, professor, department chair, and dean, Teitelbaum examines contemporary concerns related to three broad areas: 1) teaching and teacher education; 2) curriculum studies; and 3) multiculturalism and social justice. His approach is to integrate the current and the historical, the practical and the theoretical, the technical and the socio-political, and the personal and the structural. With this volume, Teitelbaum considers how schools should be organized and funded, what they should teach and to whom, the role that teachers, students, and parents should play in school life, and the need and prospects for schools and teacher education programs that foster meaningful learning, critical reflection, and social justice"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Teaching has its own rewards

Despite what some think, teaching isn't easy

Reasons to be a teacher

"Work with what you've got"

Lessons from alternative (progressive) schooling

Understanding teacher education and teaching

Globalization, neoliberalism, and teacher education

The work of education deans amidst recent state policy changes / co-authored with Kevin R. McClure

The nature and value of curriculum theorizing

Curriculum debates

Critical civic literacy in schools

Curriculum and socialism in the United States, 1900-1920

Everyone a writer

What about the arts?

The value of recreation and play

Multicultural education : a rationale

Tensions and dilemmas in multicultural teaching

Context and black academic attainment

Poverty, children, and schooling

Class in America : what do schools have to do with it?

The "gaze" of teachers and issues of academic and communicative competence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Teitelbaum, Kenneth, 1949- Critical issues in democratic schooling

ISBN:

9780367900557

0367900556

9780367900526

0367900521

OCLC:

1131779036