Title: Teaching and schooling in America : pre- and post-September 11 /
Authors: Ornstein, Allan C.
Publisher: Allyn and Bacon,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Education Social aspects United States; Education United States Philosophy
Contents: 1. Improving teaching -- Theory versus the practice of teaching -- The science versus the art of teaching -- Teacher contexts: new research, new paradigms -- The expert teacher -- Reconceptualizing teaching -- 2. Teaching and teacher accountability -- Do teachers make a difference? -- Contextual problems in evaluating teachers -- Criterion problems in evaluating teachers -- The measurement problem -- Educational accountability -- 3. Theories of learning -- Behaviorism -- Cognitive psychology -- Moral education -- Brain research and learning -- Listening and looking at children's drawings -- 4. The school as a socializing agent -- Education for transmitting the culture -- The pruposes of education -- Changing American society -- Postnuclear family -- The peer group -- The culture of the school -- 5. Schooling in America -- Reexamining three icons: Rousseau, Cremin and Dewey -- The rise of universal education -- The rise of the common school movement -- History 101: topics rarely, if ever, discussed -- 6. Schooling in America -- The transitional school period: 1893-1918 -- Progressive schools -- Essentialist philosophy and priorities -- Reconstructionism: the warning bell is sounded -- Growing priorities: new disadvantaged groups -- Renewed search for relevancy and humanism -- Neoconservatism: present-day warnings and concerns -- 7. Social stratification and inequality -- Historical and philosophical issues of equality -- Social mobility and social structure -- International comparisons: science and math -- 8. Class, race and education -- Do schools make a difference? Large-scale studies -- Implications and policies -- Race, schools and society.