Critical Issues in Education

Gene Provenzo is one of the nation’s leading scholars in the foundations of education. He holds the rank of full professor at the University of Miami. He has won numerous awards throughout his career in both teaching and research and sits on many editorial boards. He has authored over ten books and has contributed chapters to many more. He has authored scores of articles in a wide range of areas in education. His recent projects include Teaching, Learning, and Schooling (Allyn & Bacon, 2002), a critically-oriented introduction to the foundations of education textbook, and the forthcoming Readings in Educational Thought (SAGE, 2005).

• PrefaceIntroduction: Educational Thought in Western CulturePROLOGUEIntroduction to Prologue“Orientation” (1934) - George S. Counts “The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World” (1994) - Vaclav Havel PART I: THE AIMS OF EDUCATIONIntroduction to Part I“My Pedagogic Creed” (1897) - John Dewey Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education (1918) - National Education Association“A Morally Defensible Mission for Schools in the 21st Century” (1997) - Nel NoddingsPART II: SOCIETY AND EDUCATIONIntroduction to Part IISelection from Notes on the State of Virginia (1781) - Thomas Jefferson On The Mode Of Education Proper In A Republic (1786) - Benjamin Rush Selections from Report No. 12 of the Massachusetts School Board (1848) - Horace Mann Selection from Dare the Schools Build a New Social Order (1932) - George S. Counts PART III: COMPULSORY SCHOOLING, EDUCATION, AND THE TRANSMISSION OF CULTUREIntroduction to Part IIIIMassachusetts Compulsory School Law (1852) - General Court of MassachusettsSelection from Compulsory Mis-Education (1964) - Paul Goodman“Vulnerability in Education,” (1966) - Jules Henry “The Banking Model of Education” (1970) - Paulo FreireSelection from Deschooling Society (1970) - Ivan Illich PART IV: SEXUALITY AND EDUCATIONIntroduction to Part IVSelection from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) - Mary WollstonecraftThe Seneca Falls Declaration (1848) - Elizabeth Cady Stanton Equal Right Amendment (1921) - Alice Paul Title IX (1972) - Congress of the United States“The Absent Presence: Patriarchy, Capitalism, And The Nature of Teacher Work” (1987) - Patti Lather“A Queer Youth” (1996) - Paul H. Cottell, Jr.“How and Why Boys Under-Achieve” (2000) - Wendy Bradford, Colin Noble, and Ted WraggPART V: RACE, MULTICULTURALISM, AND EDUCATIONIntroduction to Part VLaws Prohibiting the Education of Slaves (1830-1832) - General Assembly of the State of North Carolina; General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia; and the General Assembly of Alabama"Industrial Education for the Negro” (1903) - Booker T. Washington The Talented Tenth (1903) - W. E. B. Du Bois A Talk to Teachers (1963) - James Baldwin “Education for All Handicapped Children” (1975) - Congress of the United States of America“Border Pedagogy in the Age of Postmodernism” (1988) - Henry GirouxPART VI: SOCIAL CLASS AND EDUCATIONIntroduction to Part VISelection from Pygmalion in the Classroom (1968) - Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson“Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work” (1980) - Jean Anyon“Crossing Class Boundaries” (2000) - bell hooksPART VII: TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATIONIntroduction to Part VIIAugmenting Human Intellect (1962) - Douglas EngelbartHow Computers Contribute to the Ecological Crisis (1990) - C. A. BowersThe Field: Knowledge in Computerized Societies (1979) - Jean-François Lyotard

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