The Medicalization Of America S Schools

Author : Joel Macht
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319629742

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The Medicalization of America's Schools by Joel Macht Pdf

This book challenges the validity of ADHD, learning disabilities, and dyslexia as meaningful special education "categories" and critically examines the misplaced medical model from which they are derived. The presumption that these disabilities cause school-related problems detracts from identifying factors within the classroom that create and maintain a child’s underachievement and disruptive behavior. Moreover, when the disability is finally named, it provides no functional information that translates into effective coping strategies. Macht delves into the misunderstood structure of these disabilities, pointing out that they are not verifiable disabilities but weak constructs that poorly describe each child’s uniqueness. Finally, he provides an alternative model based on children's strengths rather than their deficiencies, and presents strategies that advance school-related success.

Author : Stan Kutcher,Yifeng Wei,Mark D. Weist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781107053908

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School Mental Health by Stan Kutcher,Yifeng Wei,Mark D. Weist Pdf

"This book related to fundamental recognitions that 1) children, adolescents, and families usually make no or very poor connections to specialty mental health (see Atkins et al. 1998; Catron, Harris, & Weiss, 1999), 2) schools are where children and youth are, and 3) many advantages accrue when education, mental health, and other youth-serving systems join together to better meet the mental health needs of students, in ways that reflect reducing and removing barriers to learning (Andis et al., 2002; Weist, 1997). National and global networks are increasingly recognizing the centrality of the SMH agenda as reflected in increasing funding, growing training opportunities, key policy initiatives, and an advancing research base that involves localities, states, regions and countries pursuing common themes"--

Author : J. Kafka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137001962

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The History of "Zero Tolerance" in American Public Schooling by J. Kafka Pdf

Through a case study of the Los Angeles city school district from the 1950s through the 1970s, Judith Kafka explores the intersection of race, politics, and the bureaucratic organization of schooling. Kafka argues that control over discipline became increasingly centralized in the second half of the twentieth century in response to pressures exerted by teachers, parents, students, principals, and local politicians - often at different historical moments, and for different purposes. Kafka demonstrates that the racial inequities produced by today's school discipline policies were not inevitable, nor are they immutable.

Author : Elly Singer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351678230

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Child-Care and the Psychology of Development by Elly Singer Pdf

Are child-care centres good for children? How can we provide good day-care? Feminists have long argued for the provision of day-care facilities so that mothers may be free to work outside the home. The call had enjoyed little support from politicians and experts, however. Feminists had been seen to stand for women’s interests, and psychologists and pedagogues for children’s – as if the two were opposed. Only in the early 1990s had the opinions of politicians and experts begun to change. Yet, even so, a positive policy on day-care was still lacking. Originally published in 1992, Elly Singer’s exciting book shed a fresh and critical light on its subject. She exposes the preoccupations and contradictions of mainstream developmental psychology and its experts, shows how their theories blind them to many important questions, and reveals the almost total denial by mainstream psychology of the daily realities of parents and their children at the time. Elly Singer then proposes fresh ways of thinking to meet the new and different circumstances in which children and parents find themselves in contemporary society.

Author : Thomas D. Fallace
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807759370

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In the Shadow of Authoritarianism by Thomas D. Fallace Pdf

In the Shadow of Authoritarianism explores how American educators, in the wake of World War I, created a student-centered curriculum in response to authoritarian threats abroad. For most of the 20th century, American educators lived in the shadow of ideological, political, cultural, and existential threats (including Prussianism, propaganda, collectivism, dictatorship, totalitarianism, mind control, the space race, and moral relativity). To meet the perceived threat, the American curriculum was gradually moved in a more student-centered direction that focused less on “what to think” and more on “how to think.” This book examines the period between World War I and the 1980s, focusing on how U.S. schools countered the influence of fascist and communist ideologies, as well as racial discrimination. Fallace also considers this approach in light of current interests in the Common Core State Standards. Book Features: Places American educational ideas in a global context. Outlines how events overseas shaped, challenged, and supported the ideals of progressive and postwar education. Discusses a major reorientation in democratic education from ideological commitment to ideological skepticism before and after World War II. Examines how leading American educators cited the work of educational philosopher John Dewey in different ways before and after World War II. Traces how educators responded to epistemological issues surrounding propaganda and indoctrination, precursors to “fake news” and “alternative facts.”

Author : D. Warren,J. Patrick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403984722

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Civic and Moral Learning in America by D. Warren,J. Patrick Pdf

From its formative years to the present, advocates of various persuasions have written and spoken about the country's need for moral and civic education. Responding in part to challenges posed by B. Edward McClellan, this book offers research findings on the ideas, people, and contexts that have influenced the acquisition of moral and civic learning in the America.

Author : Lillian Dowdell Drakeford Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440832642

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The Race Controversy in American Education by Lillian Dowdell Drakeford Ph.D. Pdf

In this unique two-volume work, expert scholars and practitioners examine race and racism in public education, tackling controversial educational issues such as the school-to-prison pipeline, charter schools, school funding, affirmative action, and racialized curricula. This work is built on the premise that recent efforts to advance color-blind, race-neutral educational policies and reforms have not only proven ineffective in achieving racial equity and equality of educational opportunities and outcomes in America's public schools but also exacerbated existing inequalities. That point is made through a collection of essays that examine the consequences of racial inequality on the school experience and success of students of color and other historically marginalized populations. Addressing K–12 education and higher education in historically black as well as predominantly white institutions, the work probes the impact of race and racism on education policies and reforms to determine the role schools, school processes, and school structures play in the perpetuation of racial inequality in American education. Each volume validates the impact of race on teaching and learning and exposes the ways in which racism manifests itself in U.S. schools. In addition, practical recommendations are presented that may be used to confront and eradicate racism in education. By exposing what happens when issues of race and racism are marginalized or ignored, this collection will prepare readers to resist—and perhaps finally overcome—the racial inequality that plagues America's schools.

Author : Margret A. Winzer
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN : 1563680181

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The History of Special Education by Margret A. Winzer Pdf

An introductory history, written by a special educator for special educators, aiming to resurrect and interpret the past in order to cast new light on important issues of today. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Cheves McC. Smythe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : College teachers
ISBN : MINN:31951000047750B

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Academic Tenure in Medical School Settings by Cheves McC. Smythe Pdf

Author : Richard J. Altenbaugh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319963495

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Vaccination in America by Richard J. Altenbaugh Pdf

The success of the polio vaccine was a remarkable breakthrough for medical science, effectively eradicating a dreaded childhood disease. It was also the largest medical experiment to use American schoolchildren. Richard J. Altenbaugh examines an uneasy conundrum in the history of vaccination: even as vaccines greatly mitigate the harm that infectious disease causes children, the process of developing these vaccines put children at great risk as research subjects. In the first half of the twentieth century, in the face of widespread resistance to vaccines, public health officials gradually medicalized American culture through mass media, public health campaigns, and the public education system. Schools supplied tens of thousands of young human subjects to researchers, school buildings became the main dispensaries of the polio antigen, and the mass immunization campaign that followed changed American public health policy in profound ways. Tapping links between bioethics, education, public health, and medical research, this book raises fundamental questions about child welfare and the tension between private and public responsibility that still fuel anxieties around vaccination today.

Author : Terry A. Osborn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313064715

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Language and Cultural Diversity in U.S. Schools by Terry A. Osborn Pdf

Diversity is at the heart of today's education debates. Often, school policies and programs designed to encourage and embrace diversity are met with public ire and a deep misunderstanding of how diversity serves learning. This work explains how diversity is an essential element in classroom settings. As children from around the world continue to pour into U.S. classrooms, an understanding of cultural and linguistic diversity in its broadest sense moves to the foreground. In a post 9/11 world, the benefits of understanding diversity take on urgent meaning. The introdutory chapter, Participating in Democracy Means Participating in Schools, sets the tone for the discussion to follow. As the geographic backgrounds of immigrants becomes increasingly diverse, religion must be added to previous discussions of race, ethnicity, and language. Thus, the need for the public to understand how shifts in population affect schools, makes this work a vital resource for anyone concerned with education today.

Author : Roger J.R. Levesque
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780306475405

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Dangerous Adolescents, Model Adolescents by Roger J.R. Levesque Pdf

Teachers make a difference. As someone who grew up in one of the po- est and rural areas of a poor state and ended up attending elite graduate and professional schools, I have much to credit my public school teachers. My teachers sure struggled much to teach an amazingly wide variety of students from different backgrounds, abilities, and hopes. Given that re- ity, which undoubtedly repeats itself across the United States and globe, one would think that I should be quite hesitant to criticize a system that produces countless grateful students and productive citizens. I agree. The pages that follow surely can be perceived as yet another attack on already much maligned schools that do produce impressive outcomes despite their limited resources, increased obligations, and the sustained barrage of attacks from competing interest groups. Some may even view the text as an affront to the inalienable rights of parents to raise their children as they see fit. Others surely could understand the analysis as another assault on our decentralized legal and school systems that should retain the right to balance the needs of communities, parents, schools, and students. I clearly did not intend, and do not see the ultimate result, as yet another diatribe on the manner teachers, parents and communities treat students.

Author : Brian J. Low
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889203860

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NFB Kids by Brian J. Low Pdf

Annotation Using a half-century of films from the archival collection of the National Film Board, NFB Kids overcomes a long-standing impasse about what films may be credibly said to document. Here they document not "reality" but social images preserved over time - the "NFB Society"--An evolving, cinematic representation of Canadian families, schools and communities.

Author : Barbara Beatty
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0300072732

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Preschool Education in America by Barbara Beatty Pdf

A history of policies and programmes for the education of three-to-five-year-olds in the USA. This book also traces efforts to make pre-school education a part of the American public school system and shows why these efforts have been rejected, despite evidence of pre-school benefit.

Author : Karen Lucas Breda,Ray H Elling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351864381

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Nursing and Globalization in the Americas by Karen Lucas Breda,Ray H Elling Pdf

Nursing is vital to millions of people worldwide. This book details the ebb and flow of its fascinating history and politics through case studies from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Canada, and the United States. Authors from across the Americas share findings and explore new thinking about Western hemisphere-specific issues that affect nursing and health care. Using economic globalization as an overarching framework, these cross-national case studies show the strengths and contradictions in nursing, elucidating common themes and examining successes. The partnership of authors shapes a collective understanding of nursing in the Americas and forms a basis for enduring hemisphere-wide academic exchange. Thus, the book offers a new platform for understanding the struggles and obstacles of nursing in a climate of globalization, as well as for understanding nursing's richness and accomplishments. Because politics, economics, health, and nursing are inextricably linked, this volume critically explores the intersections among political economies and nursing and health care systems. The historical and contextual background allows readers to make sense of how and why nursing in the Americas has taken on its present form.