Foundations of Education

Problems and Possibilities in American Education

Samuel M. Craver, Maike Ingrid Philipsen

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9781441140951
• eBook ISBN: 9781441154460
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Technology

Foundations of Education is organized around the major problems facing contemporary American education. It offers a thorough, scholarly treatment of these problems from historical, philosophical, and sociological perspectives, bringing together relevant findings from those disciplines to analyze and illuminate a wide range of issues. Each chapter focuses on a core topic (including race, gender, equal opportunities, school governance) to give students a solid overview, providing intellectually sound material that offers real depth and challenges students to think creatively. Packed with exercises, discussion questions, international case studies for comparative purposes and supported by a fully up-to-date companion website, this is a text that responds to current developments, changes, and trends in teacher education. Foundations of Education will prepare a new generation of educators for a globalized and technology-driven society that needs to be aware of its best educational traditions, its current problems and its future possibilities.

Index

Abelard, Peter (1079?– 1144) 363

ability grouping 141–4, 188, 229, 243

accountability 15, 21, 28, 40, 57, 67, 69, 76, 86–91, 126, 193, 232

accreditation agencies 85, 97

acculturate 215

Adams, Abigail (1744–1818) 262

Adams, John (1735–1826) 11, 262

Adams, John Quincy (1767–1848) 231

Addams, Jane (1860–1935) 268

administrative staff 82

Adult Basic Education (ABE) 126

advanced placement (AP) 290

African Americans 18, 142, 155–207, 211, 230

Afrocentric education 193–6, 200

Afrocentrism 193–5, 196

Alcuin (735–804) 362

Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) 282

Alfred the Great (849–899) 362

all deliberate speed 177, 179

American Baptist Home Mission Society 161

American Dream, the 122, 130, 133

American Federation of Teachers (AFT) 18–20, 23, 27, 43, 46

American GI Forum (AGIF) 229

American Indian Movement (AIM) 217

American Missionary Association 161

American Revolution 9, 56, 59, 76, 111, 160, 370, 401

American School for the Deaf 311

American Sign Language (ASL) 311

Americanization 211, 215–19, 228, 249

Ancient Egypt, education in 17, 91, 358–9, 401

Ancient Greece, education in 4, 282, 359, 401

Ancient Mesopotamia, education in 358–9

Ancient Rome, education in 4, 222, 358–60, 401

Anthony, Susan B. (1820–1906) 269

apartheid 197–8, 200

Aquinas, Thomas (1224?–1274) 363

Argentine Republic 93–6

governance issues 95

national education system 94

school governance 93–5

Aristotle (384–322 B.C.E.) 34, 51, n. 57 &a...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Teaching as a Profession
• School Governance and Control
• Social Class and Education
• Race and the Education of African Americans
• Ethnicity and Education
• Gender and Education
• Education of People with Disabilities
• Religion and Education
• Index