Critical issues in education
Subtitle: dialogues and dialectics
By: Jack L. Nelson, Stuart B. Palonsky, Mary Rose McCarthy ; foreword by Nel Noddings
Contributors: Palonsky, Stuart B.; McCarthy, Mary Rose, Ph. D.
Edition: 8th ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780078024375
Subjects: Critical thinking; Teaching; EDUCATION / General; Education; Educational evaluation
Description: "There is a great need for critical thinking in schools, and by teachers.  Current educational reform efforts emphasize student testing on basic information and rote memorization. What is lost is education that involves critical thinking, creativity, and consideration of alternatives. The essential framework for this book is the stimulation of critical thinking--to include dialogue and dialectic approaches.  Critical Issues in Education includes opposing sides of the issues presented and illustrates, through competing essays on each topic, how critical thinking, dialogue, and dialectic approaches improve understanding and the evaluation of available evidence and reasoning.  "--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Foreword Preface1 Introduction: Critical Issues and Critical Thinking Part One WHOSE INTERESTS SHOULD SCHOOLS SERVE?: JUSTICE AND EQUITY2 Family Choice in Education: Public Interest or Private Good3 Financing Schools: Equity or Privilege4 Privatization, Commercialization, and the Business of School: Competing or Complementary Interests5 Religion and Public Schools: Free Expression or Separation6 Gender Equity: Eliminating Discrimination or Accommodating Difference7 New Immigrants and the Schools: Unfair Burden or Business as UsualPart Two WHAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT?: KNOWLEDGE AND LITERACY8 Standards-Based Reform: Real Change or Badly Flawed Policy9 The Academic Achievement Gap: Old Remedies or New10 Values/Character Education: Traditional or Liberational11 Multicultural Education: Democratic or Divisive12 Technology and Learning: Enabling or SubvertingPart Three THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY: INDIVIDUALS AND ENVIRONMENTS13 Discipline and Justice: Zero Tolerance or Discretionary Practices14 Violence and Bullying in Schools: School Treatable or Beyond School Control15 Inclusion and Disability: Common or Special Education16 Teacher Unions and School Reform: Advocate or Adversary17 Academic Freedom and Censorship: Teacher Rights or ResponsibilitiesIndex.