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).

Preface Introduction: Educational Thought in Western Culture PROLOGUE Introduction to Prologue "Orientation" (1934) - George S. Counts "The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World" (1994) - Vaclav Havel PART I: THE AIMS OF EDUCATION Introduction 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 Noddings PART II: SOCIETY AND EDUCATION Introduction to Part II Selection 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 CULTURE Introduction to Part IIII Massachusetts Compulsory School Law (1852) - General Court of Massachusetts Selection from Compulsory Mis-Education (1964) - Paul Goodman "Vulnerability in Education," (1966) - Jules Henry "The Banking Model of Education" (1970) - Paulo Freire Selection from Deschooling Society (1970) - Ivan Illich PART IV: SEXUALITY AND EDUCATION Introduction to Part IV Selection from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) - Mary Wollstonecraft The 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 Wragg PART V: RACE, MULTICULTURALISM, AND EDUCATION Introduction to Part V Laws 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 Giroux PART VI: SOCIAL CLASS AND EDUCATION Introduction to Part VI Selection 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 hooks PART VII: TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION Introduction to Part VII Augmenting Human Intellect (1962) - Douglas Engelbart How Computers Contribute to the Ecological Crisis (1990) - C. A. Bowers The Field: Knowledge in Computerized Societies (1979) - Jean-Francois Lyotard

"The text is flexible for a variety of approaches in a number of different classes and maintains a comprehensive stance toward the range of historical, contemporary, and modern educational thought." -- Thomas Dickinson "Found it stimulating and relevant." -- Mutholil Kurian George