Pluralism And American Public Education

Author : Ashley Rogers Berner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137502247

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Pluralism and American Public Education by Ashley Rogers Berner Pdf

This book argues that the structure of public education is a key factor in the failure of America's public education system to fulfill the intellectual, civic, and moral aims for which it was created. The book challenges the philosophical basis for the traditional common school model and defends the educational pluralism that most liberal democracies enjoy. Berner provides a unique theoretical pathway that is neither libertarian nor state-focused and a pragmatic pathway that avoids the winner-takes-all approach of many contemporary debates about education. For the first time in nearly one hundred fifty years, changing the underlying structure of America’s public education system is both plausible and possible, and this book attempts to set out why and how.

Author : Jeffrey Mirel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674046382

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Patriotic Pluralism by Jeffrey Mirel Pdf

In this book, leading historian of education Jeffrey E. Mirel retells a story we think we know, in which public schools forced a draconian Americanization on the great waves of immigration of a century ago. Ranging from the 1890s through the World War II years, Mirel argues that Americanization was a far more nuanced and negotiated process from the start, much shaped by immigrants themselves.Drawing from detailed descriptions of Americanization programs for both schoolchildren and adults in three cities (Chicago, Cleveland, and Detroit) and from extensive analysis of foreign-language newspapers, Mirel shows how immigrants confronted different kinds of Americanization. When native-born citizens contemptuously tried to force them to forsake their home religions, languages, or histories, immigrants pushed back strongly. While they passionately embraced key aspects of Americanization—the English language, American history, democratic political ideas, and citizenship—they also found in American democracy a defense of their cultural differences. In seeing no conflict between their sense of themselves as Italians, or Germans, or Poles, and Americans, they helped to create a new and inclusive vision of this country.Mirel vividly retells the epic story of one of the great achievements of American education, which has profound implications for the Americanization of immigrants today.

Author : Ashley Rogers Berner
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781682538968

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Educational Pluralism and Democracy by Ashley Rogers Berner Pdf

A revolutionary proposal for a conceptual and organizational framework for US public education that benefits all citizens.

Author : Ashley Rogers Berner
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 1682538958

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Educational Pluralism and Democracy by Ashley Rogers Berner Pdf

A revolutionary proposal for a conceptual and organizational framework for US public education that benefits all citizens. In Educational Pluralism and American Democracy, education policy expert Ashley Rogers Berner envisions a K-12 education system that serves both the individual and the common good. Calling for education reform that will enable US public schools to fulfill the longstanding promise of American education, Berner proposes a radical reimagining of both the structure and content of US public school systems. She urges policymakers to embrace educational pluralism, an internationally common model in which the government funds diverse types of schools that deliver more universal content. Providing an incisive assessment of democratic education throughout the world, Berner argues that educational pluralism can build students' exposure to diverse viewpoints and shared knowledge within distinctive school communities. She shows how pluralism steers a middle path that enables equitable access, promotes academic excellence, and avoids the zero-sum games that characterize US education policy. Pluralism, she observes, will ultimately serve democracy by defusing polarization and increasing social mobility, political tolerance, and civic engagement. In this thought-provoking proposal, Berner lays out a roadmap for big-picture reform, expertly delineating the mechanisms through which educational norms can change. A practical conclusion describes concrete moves that advocates can pursue to garner support and advance new legislation.

Author : Patricia Hill Collins
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807000183

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Another Kind of Public Education by Patricia Hill Collins Pdf

In this fiercely intelligent yet accessible book, one of the nation's leading sociologists and experts on race calls for "another kind of public education"--one that opens up more possibilities for democracy, and more powerful modes of participation for young people of color.

Author : Johann N. Neem
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421423210

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Democracy's Schools by Johann N. Neem Pdf

The unknown history of American public education. At a time when Americans are debating the future of public education, Johann N. Neem tells the inspiring story of how and why Americans built a robust public school system in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. It’s a story in which ordinary people in towns across the country worked together to form districts and build schoolhouses and reformers sought to expand tax support and give every child a liberal education. By the time of the Civil War, most northern states had made common schools free, and many southern states were heading in the same direction. Americans made schooling a public good. Yet back then, like today, Americans disagreed over the kind of education needed, who should pay for it, and how schools should be governed. Neem explores the history and meaning of these disagreements. As Americans debated, teachers and students went about the daily work of teaching and learning. Neem takes us into the classrooms of yore so that we may experience public schools from the perspective of the people whose daily lives were most affected by them. Ultimately, Neem concludes, public schools encouraged a diverse people to see themselves as one nation. By studying the origins of America’s public schools, Neem urges us to focus on the defining features of democratic education: promoting equality, nurturing human beings, preparing citizens, and fostering civic solidarity.

Author : Madelon D. Stent,William R. Hazard,Harry Nathaniel Rivlin
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015054060564

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Cultural Pluralism in Education: a Mandate for Change by Madelon D. Stent,William R. Hazard,Harry Nathaniel Rivlin Pdf

Author : Jonathan Zimmerman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674045440

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Whose America? by Jonathan Zimmerman Pdf

What do America's children learn about American history, American values, and human decency? Who decides? In this absorbing book, Jonathan Zimmerman tells the dramatic story of conflict, compromise, and more conflict over the teaching of history and morality in twentieth-century America. In history, whose stories are told, and how? As Zimmerman reveals, multiculturalism began long ago. Starting in the 1920s, various immigrant groups--the Irish, the Germans, the Italians, even the newly arrived Eastern European Jews--urged school systems and textbook publishers to include their stories in the teaching of American history. The civil rights movement of the 1960s and '70s brought similar criticism of the white version of American history, and in the end, textbooks and curricula have offered a more inclusive account of American progress in freedom and justice. But moral and religious education, Zimmerman argues, will remain on much thornier ground. In battles over school prayer or sex education, each side argues from such deeply held beliefs that they rarely understand one another's reasoning, let alone find a middle ground for compromise. Here there have been no resolutions to calm the teaching of history. All the same, Zimmerman argues, the strong American tradition of pluralism has softened the edges of the most rigorous moral and religious absolutism.

Author : Carl A. Grant,Marilynne Boyle-Baise,Christine E. Sleeter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032610201

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The Public School and the Challenge of Ethnic Pluralism by Carl A. Grant,Marilynne Boyle-Baise,Christine E. Sleeter Pdf

Author : Thomas C. Hunt,James C. Carper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135629304

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Religion and Schooling in Contemporary America by Thomas C. Hunt,James C. Carper Pdf

With articles dealing with denomination, law, public policy and financing this anthology grants an evenhanded view of the impact of religion on our nation's public schools.

Author : D. Joel Wysong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : CORNELL:31924087290312

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Achieving the Public Interests in Education Through Educational Pluralism by D. Joel Wysong Pdf

Author : Victor H. Kazanjian,Peter L. Laurence
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015050268955

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Education as Transformation by Victor H. Kazanjian,Peter L. Laurence Pdf

A collection of 28 essays written by a range of educators, including presidents, deans, faculty members, students, and religious life professionals, on themes of religious pluralism and spirituality in higher education. Essays provide scholarly analysis, practical information, and inspiration for those who agree that higher education can combine both head and heart in the teaching and learning process and in campus and community life. Kazanjian is Dean of Religious and Spiritual Life and Co-Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at Wellesley College. Laurence is Co-Founder and Director of the Education as Transformation Project at Wellesley College. Material stems from a September 1998 meeting. The volume lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Rockne McCarthy,James W. Skillen,William Arthur Harper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015003505313

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Disestablishment a Second Time by Rockne McCarthy,James W. Skillen,William Arthur Harper Pdf

Author : Michael D. Waggoner,Nathan C. Walker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199386826

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The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Education by Michael D. Waggoner,Nathan C. Walker Pdf

From the founding of Harvard College in 1636 as a mission for training young clergy to the landmark 1968 Supreme Court decision in Epperson v. Arkansas, which struck down the state's ban on teaching evolution in schools, religion and education in the United States have been inextricably linked. Still today new fights emerge over the rights and limitations of religion in the classroom. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Education brings together preeminent scholars from the fields of religion, education, law, and political science to craft a comprehensive survey and assessment of the study of religion and education in the United States. The essays in the first part develop six distinct conceptual lenses through which to view American education, including Privatism, Secularism, Pluralism, Religious Literacy, Religious Liberty, and Democracy. The following four parts expand on these concepts in a diverse range of educational frames: public schools, faith-based K-12 education, higher education, and lifespan faith development. Designed for a diverse and interdisciplinary audience, this addition to the Oxford Handbook series sets for itself a broad goal of understanding the place of religion and education in a modern democracy.

Author : Richard Pratte
Publisher : Springfield, Ill. : Thomas
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031480739

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Pluralism in Education by Richard Pratte Pdf