Foundations of Educational Thought

Volume 1: Classic/Early Modern (Antiquity to 1945) Editor's Introduction: Understanding the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education Introduction to Volume 1 - Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr Early Modern and Modern (to 1929) Of Education - Michel de Montaigne Of Custom and Education - Francis Bacon Selection from The Great Didactic - Jan Amos Comenius Of Education - John Milton Selections from the Orbis Pictus Sensualium - Jan Amos Comenius Selections from Some Thoughts Concerning Education - John Locke The Education of Women - Daniel Defoe Selection from The Spirit of Laws - Montesquieu Selection from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin Selection from Emile - Jean Jacques Rousseau Selection from Notes on the State of Virginia - Thomas Jefferson Of the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic - Benjamin Rush Selections from Leonard and Gertrude - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi On National Education - Mary Wollstonecraft On Education - Johann Friedrich Herbart An Address to the Public; Particularly to the Members of the Legislature of New York, Proposing a Plan for Improving Female Education - Emma Hart Willard Selection from Improvements in Education, as It Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community - Joseph Lancaster The Education of Human Nature - Frederick Froebel Selection from the First Annual Report to the Massachusetts State Board of Education - Horace Mann Report No. 12 of the Massachusetts School Board - Horace Mann On Education - Ralph Waldo Emerson Report of the Committee of Ten - National Education Association My Pedagogic Creed - John Dewey The Function of Education in Democratic Society - Charles W. Eliot Psychology and the Art of Teaching - William James Child Study and Its Relation to Education - G. Stanley Hall Educational Methods - Jane Addams On Education and Society - Emile Durkheim Industrial Education for the Negro - Booker T. Washington The Talented Tenth - W.E.B. Du Bois The School and Social Progress - John Dewey The Contribution of Psychology to Education - Edward L. Thorndike History of Methods - Maria Montessori The Uses of Intelligence Tests - Lewis M. Terman A Modern School - Abraham Flexner Aims in Education - John Dewey The Project Method - William Heard Kilpatrick The Problem of the School - Antonio Gramsci The Aims of Education - Alfred North Whitehead The American Experimental School - Harold Rugg Volume 2: Modern (1932-1979) Introduction to Volume 2: Modern (to 1979) - Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr Selection from Dare the Schools Build a New Social Order - George S. Counts Orientation - George S. Counts On Education - Albert Einstein The Crisis in Contemporary Education - Mortimer J. Adler A Manifesto on Democracy and Education in the Current Crisis - Faculty of Teachers College, Columbia University As We May Think - Vannevar Bush The School in American Culture - Margaret Mead The Tradition of the West - Robert M. Hutchins Schools and Systems of Social Status - Howard S. Becker The Role of Government in Education - Milton Friedman Forward to A.S. Neill's Summerhill - Erich Fromm A Talk to Teachers - James Baldwin Vulnerability and Education - Jules Henry Chapter 1, Life in Classrooms - Philip W. Jackson Should the Teacher Always Be Neutral? - George S. Counts Student Social Class and Teacher Expectations - Ray C. Rist The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in Ghetto Education Why We Must Disestablish School - Ivan Illich The Adult Literacy Process as Cultural Action for Freedom - Paulo Freire The Process of Education Revisited - Jerome S. Bruner Handle with Care - Harry F. Wolcott Necessary Precautions in the Anthropology of Schooling Unequal Education and the Reproduction of the Social Division of Labor - Samuel Bowles Volunteerism to Bureaucracy in American Education - Michael Katz Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction - Pierre Bourdieu Public Education and the Education of the Public - Lawrence Cremin The Means of Correct Training - Michel Foucault Class and Pedagogies: Visible and Invisible - Basil Bernstein Servitude of the Mind? Education, Dependency, and Neocolonialism - Philip G. Altbach In Pursuit of Equity, Ethics, and Excellence: The Challenge to Close the Gap - Jesse L. Jackson Can Our Schools Get Better? - John I. Goodlad Volumes 3 and 4: Postmodern Educational Thought (1979-) Introduction to Volume 3 and 4: Postmodern (1979 - ) - Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr Introduction - Gregory Bateson Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work - Jean Anyon Curriculum as Cultural Reproduction: - C. A. Bowers An Examination of Metaphor as a Carrier of Ideology The Day Our Children Disappear - Neil Postman Predictions of a Media Ecologist A Concept of Power for Education - David Nynerg Excluding Women from the Educational Realm - Jane Roland Martin Bodyreading - Madeleine R. Grumet Valuing Teachers - Linda Darling-Hammond The Making of a Profession Imagination and Learning - Kieran Egan On Listening to What the Children Say - Vivian Gussin Paley Teaching as Research - Eleanor Duckworth In Search of a Critical Pedagogy - Maxine Greene The Functions and Uses of Literacy - Shirley Brice Heath The Silenced Dialogue - Lisa Delpit Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children Postmodernism and the Discourse of Educational Criticism - Henry Giroux Metaphor and Meaning in the Language of Teachers - Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr., Gary N. McCloskey, Robert B. Kottkamp and Marilyn M. Cohn The Violation of People at Work in Schools - Arthur G. Wirth Multicultural Education as a Form of Resistance to Oppression - Christine E. Sleeter Why Doesn't This Feel Empowering? Working Through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy - Elizabeth Ellsworth Democratic Education in Difficult Times - Amy Gutmann Post-Critical Pedagogies - Patti Lather A Feminist Reading Radical Pedagogy as Cultural Politics - Henry A. Giroux and Peter L. McLaren Beyond the Discourse of Critique and Anti-Utopianism The Three Curricula that all Schools Teach - Elliot W. Eisner Feminist Politics in Radical Pedagogy - Carmen Luke Dreamt Into Existence by Others - William Pinar Curriculum Theory and School Reform Educational Reform and the Ecology of Schooling - Elliot W. Eisner Excellence as a Guide to Educational Conversation - Nel Noddings Beyond the Methods Fetish - Lilia I. Bartolome Toward a Humanizing Pedagogy Democracy and Education - Noam Chomsky Engaged Pedagogy - Bell Hooks When Basic Skills and Information Processing Just Aren't Enough - Allan Luke Rethinking Read in New Times The Challenges of National Standards in a Multicultural Society - Cherry McGee Banks Dancing with Bigotry - Lilia I. Bartolome and Donaldo P. Macedo The Poisoning of Racial and Ethnic Identities Rewriting the Discourse of Racial Identity - Henry A. Giroux Towards a Pedagogy and Politics of Whiteness The Death of Child Nature - David Elkind Education in the Postmodern World Theory Practice and the Education of Professionals - Lee S. Shulman Curriculum, After Culture, Race, Nation - John Willinsky Social Justice, Curriculum, and Spirituality - David E. Purpel New Standards, Old Inequalities - Linda Darling-Hammond The Current Challenge for African-American Education Summary - Joel Spring The Universal Right to Education The Care Tradition: Beyond 'Add Women and Stir' - Nel Noddings Toward an Eco-Justice Pedagogy - C.A. Bowers Globalizing Education - Michael Singh, Jane Kenway and Michael W. Apple Perspectives from Above and Below The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World - Vaclav Havel