Struggle for Public Education

Ten Themes in American Educational History

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Av Donald Parkerson, Jo Ann Parkerson

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The great pendulum of educational reform recently has begun its inexorable swing toward a new understanding of education. The thirty-year dominance of the authoritarian approach, complete with standardized assessments, distended bureaucracies and school consolidation based on the business model, appears to be over. Capped by the recent departure of the No Child Left behind Act and replaced with a new congressional authorization – the Every Child Achieves Act – we are witnessing a distinct move toward a more democratic model of education. This book places the tension between these two broadly defined archetypes in the context of the central themes of American education. These include the structure and organization of American schools, the struggle for diversity, curriculum and instruction, classroom discipline, moral education, testing and assessment, and the rights and responsibilities of teachers and students. By organizing these themes into a more understandable and relevant thematic context, readers will be able to appreciate the changes in the field of education over the years as well as the cacophonous bickering over education policy - today and yesterday.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-11-15
Mått159 x 236 x 23 mm
Vikt513 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor230
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781475830194

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Donald Parkerson is the Distinguished Professor of Teaching in the History Department at East Carolina University. He has published six books on the history of education with his coauthor, Jo Ann Parkerson. Their previous book with Rowman & Littlefield focused on the background of issues facing schools today – Assessment, Bureaucracy and Consolidation. Jo Ann Parkerson is Professor Emeritus of Education at Methodist University. Previously she taught in the public schools and she draws on her educational experiences and research in her writing.

PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: The Authoritarian and Democratic Schools of EducationChapter 2: The Structure and Organization of American Schools Chapter 3: Consolidation and its Discontents: From Intimacy to Democracy Chapter 4: The Struggle for DiversityChapter 5: The Curriculum: From Religious to Secular and Comprehensive Chapter 6: Instruction: From Memorization to ComprehensionChapter 7: Discipline in the Classroom: From Corporal Punishment to Preventative TechniquesChapter 8: Moral Education: From Virtue Centered to Cognitive Moral DevelopmentChapter 9: Testing and Assessment: From Recitation to Standardized AssessmentChapter 10: Rights and Responsibilities of Teachers and StudentsConclusion – The Complexity of Change in American EducationReferencesIndex

By moving away from chronological and fragmented historical accounts to a thematic approach the authors provide a better understanding of the history of American education. This book describes men and women’s best intentions, failed policies, and social influences that profoundly affected education in the past. A must-read to understand social, economic, and cultural forces that influenced monumental transitions in schools to understand future trends in education.