Teachers, schools, and society

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Teachers, schools, and society

Myra Pollack Sadker, David Miller Sadker

McGraw-Hill, c1994

3rd ed

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Designed for introductory courses in teacher training, this text covers aspects of American education: the realities of teaching, the operation of schools, the fundamentals underlying teaching and schooling, and the debated issues. Topics receiving increased attention in this edition include student diversity, educational inequality, school reform, co-operative learning, and cognitive/constructivist views of teaching and learning. Special attention has also been given to the topic of student diversity.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Teachers: becoming a teacher
  • effective teaching
  • student diversity. Part 2 Schools: the history of American education
  • what are schools for?
  • what students are taught in schools
  • controversy over who controls the curriculum
  • the social side of school
  • good schools. Part 3 Foundations: school governance
  • school law
  • financing America's schools
  • philosophy of education. Part 4 Issues and trends: the struggle for equal educational opportunity
  • contemporary social forces and children at risk
  • today's reforms, tomorrow's schools.

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