Exploring Education: An Introduction to the Foundations of Education - Couverture souple

Sadovnik, Alan R.; Cookson Jr., Peter W.; Semel, Susan F.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0205473598 ISBN 13 : 9780205473595

Editeur : Pearson, 2006

Synopsis

Includes primary sources. • This text offers a point of view analysis of foundational topics paired with primary source readings. • The author addresses school organization and teaching, curriculum & pedagogical practices, education and inequality, and school reform and improvement.

A propos du livre

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

This text offers an alternative to traditional foundational texts by combining a point-of-view analysis with primary source readings. Pre-service and practicing teachers will find a solid introduction to the foundations disciplines ― history, philosophy, politics, and sociology of education ― and their application to educational issues including school organization and teaching, curriculum and pedagogic practices, education and inequality, and school reform and improvement.

Features:

• Incorporates primary source readings that reflect the most updated perspectives and data, giving students illustrations of concepts and providing opportunities for critical and reflective thinking.
• Includes current achievement data representing the effects of educational reform.
• Offers a point of view that balances realistic analysis of problems and solutions called the foundations perspective. This provides prospective teachers with a view of the opportunities and possibilities of school reform.
• Discusses the separate foundations disciplines ― politics, history, philosophy, sociology ― that make up the foundations perspective giving students a base for understanding each of the foundations.
• Addresses the interdisciplinary application of foundations disciplines to educational problems and solutions showing students the interdisciplinary nature of the foundations perspective.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0205473598
• ISBN 13: 9780205473595
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 576
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Riccardo Bacigalupo; riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it; ; Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �; Milano; 20135; Italie