Defending Public Schools Curriculum Continuity And Change In The 21st Century

Author : David Gabbard,E. Wayne Ross
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015059259260

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Defending Public Schools: Curriculum continuity and change in the 21st century by David Gabbard,E. Wayne Ross Pdf

The volume addresses such issues as the extent to which public schools are succeeding and the degree to which contemporary criticism is or is not warranted. By examining a range of content areas and a variety of philosophical and theoretical conerns, this work homes in on the evolution of curricula, methods and the forces and ideas that shape the debate. Chapters reflect the view that criticism of public schools and teachers is misplaced and misguided. Public schools operate under great stress from the pedagogical and political Left and Right. This often results in pressures and restrictions imposed through government mandates and corporate sponsorship that obscures the real issues and successes of America's public schools.

Author : E. Wayne Ross
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791481042

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The Social Studies Curriculum by E. Wayne Ross Pdf

The third edition of The Social Studies Curriculum thoroughly updates the definitive overview of the primary issues teachers face when creating learning experiences for students in social studies. By connecting the diverse elements of the social studies curriculum—history education, civic, global, and social issues—the book offers a unique and critical perspective that separates it from other texts in the field. This edition includes new work on race, gender, sexuality, critical multiculturalism, visual culture, moral deliberation, digital technologies, teaching democracy, and the future of social studies education. In an era marked by efforts to standardize curriculum and teaching, this book challenges the status quo by arguing that social studies curriculum and teaching should be about uncovering elements that are taken for granted in our everyday experiences, and making them the target of inquiry.

Author : E. Wayne Ross
Publisher : IAP
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781681237572

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Rethinking Social Studies by E. Wayne Ross Pdf

Like the schools in which it is taught, social studies is full of alluring contradictions. It harbors possibilities for inquiry and social criticism, liberation and emancipation. Social studies could be a site that enables young people to analyze and understand social issues in a holistic way – finding and tracing relations and interconnections both present and past in an effort to build meaningful understandings of a problem, its context and history; to envision a future where specific social problems are resolved; and take action to bring that vision in to existence. Social studies could be a place where students learn to speak for themselves in order to achieve, or at least strive toward an equal degree of participation and better future. Social studies could be like this, but it is not. Rethinking Social Studies examines why social studies has been and continues to be profoundly conversing in nature, the engine room of illusion factories whose primary aim is reproduction of the existing social order, where the ruling ideas exist to be memorized, regurgitated, internalized and lived by. Rethinking social studies as a site where students can develop personally meaningful understandings of the world and recognize they have agency to act on the world, and make change, rests on the premises that social studies should not show life to students, but bringing them to life and that the aim of social studies is getting students to speak for themselves, to understand people make their own history even if they make it in already existing circumstances. These principles are the foundation for a new social studies, one that is not driven by standardized curriculum or examinations, but by the perceived needs, interests, desires of students, communities of shared interest, and ourselves as educators. Rethinking Social Studies challenges readers to reconsider conventional thought and practices that sustain the status quo in classrooms, schools, and society by critically engaging with questions and issues such as: neutrality in the classroom; how movement conservatism shapes the social studies curriculum; how corporate?driven education affects schools, teachers, and curriculum; ways in which teachers can creatively disrupt everyday life in the social studies classroom; going beyond language and inclusive content in social justice oriented teaching; making critical pedagogy relevant to everyday life and classroom practice; the invisibility of class in the social studies curriculum and how to make it a central organizing concept; class war, class consciousness and social studies in the age of empire; what are your ideals as a social studies education and how do you keep them and still teach?; and what it means to be a critical social studies educator beyond the classroom.

Author : Heather Hickman,Brad J. Porfilio
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460919305

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The New Politics of the Textbook by Heather Hickman,Brad J. Porfilio Pdf

In an era when corporate and political leaders are using their power to control every aspect of the schooling process in North America, there has been surprisingly little research on the impact of textbook content on students. The contributors of this volume and its partner (The New Politics of the Textbook: Problematizing the Portrayal of Marginalized Groups in Textbooks) guide educators, school administrators, academics, and other concerned citizens to unpack the political, social, and cultural influences inherent in the textbooks of core content areas such as math, science, English, and social science. They urge readers to reconsider the role textbooks play in the creation of students’ political, social, and moral development and in perpetuating asymmetrical social and economic relationships, where social actors are bestowed unearned privileges and entitlements based upon their race, gender, sexuality, class, religion and linguistic background. Finally, they suggest ways to resist the hegemony of those texts through critical analyses, critical questioning, and critical pedagogies.

Author : Kenneth J. Saltman,David A. Gabbard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136911323

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Education as Enforcement by Kenneth J. Saltman,David A. Gabbard Pdf

The first volume to focus on the intersections of militarization, corporations, and education, Education as Enforcement exposed the many ways schooling has become the means through which the expansion of global corporate power are enforced. Since publication of the first edition, these trends have increased to disturbing levels as a result of the extensive militarization of civil society, the implosion of the neoconservative movement, and the financial meltdown that radically called into question the basic assumptions undergirding neoliberal ideology. An understanding of the enforcement of these corporate economic imperatives remains imperative to a critical discussion of related militarized trends in schools, whether through accountability and standards, school security, or other discipline based reforms. Education as Enforcement elaborates upon the central arguments of the first edition and updates readers on how recent events have reinforced their continued original relevance. In addition to substantive updates to several original chapters, this second edition includes a new foreword by Henry Giroux, a new introduction, and four new chapters that reveal the most contemporary expressions of the militarization and corporatization of education. New topics covered in this collection include zero-tolerance, foreign and second language instruction in the post-9/11 context, the rise of single-sex classrooms, and the intersection of the militarization and corporatization of schools under the Obama administration.

Author : Mira Debs
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781682533093

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Diverse Families, Desirable Schools by Mira Debs Pdf

In Diverse Families, Desirable Schools, Mira Debs offers a richly detailed study of public Montessori schools, which make up the largest group of progressive schools in the public sector. As public Montessori schools expand rapidly as alternatives to traditional public schools, the story of these schools, Debs points out, is a microcosm of the broader conflicts around public school choice. Drawing on historical research, interviews with public Montessori educators, and ethnographic case studies, Debs explores the forces that pull intentionally diverse, progressive schools toward elitism. At the heart of Debs’s book is a thoughtful analysis of the notion of “fit” between parents and schools—an idea that is central to school choice, which is often marketed as an opportunity for parents to find the perfect fit for their kids. By exploring parents’ varied motivations in choosing these schools and observing how families experience—or fail to experience—a “good fit” after having chosen a particular school, Debs makes an original contribution to the literature on school choice and sheds light on the dilemmas entailed in maintaining diversity in progressive charter and magnet schools.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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United States Demographics - Part B by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Gabbard,E. Wayne Ross
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015059259252

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Defending Public Schools by David Gabbard,E. Wayne Ross Pdf

Providing an overview and critique of issues in standards based reform and their accompanying accountability strategies, while supporting the neef for high quality schooling, this work discusses alternative means for school improvement and accountability. The Nature and Limits of Standards Based Reform and Assessment provides an overview and critique of issues in standards based reform and corresponding accountability. While supporting the need for high quality schooling, its chapters discuss local and various alternative means for improving schools while providing the accountability demanded by families, schools, and state and federal government.

Author : David Gabbard,E. Wayne Ross
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015059259286

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Defending Public Schools: Education under the security state by David Gabbard,E. Wayne Ross Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : UCSC:32106018289600

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Choice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sandra Mathison,E. Wayne Ross
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X030252229

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Battleground: L-Z by Sandra Mathison,E. Wayne Ross Pdf

Alphabetically arranged entries provide information on ninety-three controversial public education issues in the United States, including afterschool programs, class size, dropouts, nutrition in school, sexuality education, textbooks, and more.

Author : David Gabbard,E. Wayne Ross
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015059259278

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Defending Public Schools: Teaching for a democratic society by David Gabbard,E. Wayne Ross Pdf

Author : David Osborne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781632869937

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Reinventing America's Schools by David Osborne Pdf

From David Osborne, the author of Reinventing Government--a biting analysis of the failure of America's public schools and a comprehensive plan for revitalizing American education. In Reinventing America's Schools, David Osborne, one of the world's foremost experts on public sector reform, offers a comprehensive analysis of the charter school movements and presents a theory that will do for American schools what his New York Times bestseller Reinventing Government did for public governance in 1992. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the city got an unexpected opportunity to recreate their school system from scratch. The state's Recovery School District (RSD), created to turn around failing schools, gradually transformed all of its New Orleans schools into charter schools, and the results are shaking the very foundations of American education. Test scores, school performance scores, graduation and dropout rates, ACT scores, college-going rates, and independent studies all tell the same story: the city's RSD schools have tripled their effectiveness in eight years. Now other cities are following suit, with state governments reinventing failing schools in Newark, Camden, Memphis, Denver, Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Oakland. In this book, Osborne uses compelling stories from cities like New Orleans and lays out the history and possible future of public education. Ultimately, he uses his extensive research to argue that in today's world, we should treat every public school like a charter school and grant them autonomy, accountability, diversity of school designs, and parental choice.

Author : Ontario. Ministry of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Curriculum planning
ISBN : 1424947006

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The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 11 and 12 by Ontario. Ministry of Education Pdf

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2142 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : UOM:39015062080331

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf