School and society : educational practice as social expression

By: Tozer, StevenContributor(s): Violas, Paul C | Senese, Guy BMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York : McGraw-Hill, c1993Description: xiii, 434 p. : illISBN: 9780075570431; 0075570432; 0075571951 (instructor's manual)Subject(s): Educational sociology | EducationDDC classification: 370.190973
Contents:
Ch. 1. Understanding School and Society -- Tools of Inquiry -- Analytic Framework -- Applying the Terms of Inquiry: Two Illustrations -- Pt. 1. Educational Aims in Historical Perspective -- Ch. 2. Liberty and Literacy: The Jeffersonian Ideal -- Political Economy of the Jeffersonian Era -- Ideology of the Jeffersonian Era -- Jefferson's Plan for Popular Education -- Ch. 3. School as a Public Institution: The Common School Era -- Political Economy of the Common School Era -- Horace Mann: An Exemplar of Reform -- Mann and the Common Schools -- Ch. 4. Schooling and Social Inequality: The Booker T. Washington Solution -- Political-Economic Dimensions of Reconstruction and Redemption -- Reconstruction, Redemption, and African-American Schooling -- Booker T. Washington's Career -- An Ideology of African-American Inferiority -- William Edward Burghardt DuBois -- Ch. 5. Education for the Vocations: The Progressive Era -- The Political Economy of the Progressive Era -- New Liberal Ideology -- Progressive Education -- Deweyan Developmental Democracy -- Ch. 6. Culture and Control: Schooling and the American Indian -- Political-Economic Foundations of Indian Schooling -- Ideology -- Schooling and the Native American -- Ch. 7. National School Reform: The Cold War Era -- Political Economy and Ideology of the Early Cold War Era -- James Bryant Conant -- Pt. 2. Educational Aims in Contemporary Society -- Ch. 8. Liberty and Literacy in the United States Today -- A Brief Historical Perspective Literacy as a Social Construction -- Four Contemporary Perspectives on Literacy -- Hegemony Theory Literacy and Ideology -- Ch. 9. Public School Teaching: A Gendered Profession -- School Reform and the Professionalization of Teaching -- Professionalization of Teaching: Historical Perspective -- Sociological Perspective: Criteria for a Profession -- Weakness of the Professionalization Model: Critical Perspectives -- Ideology and Teacher Professionalization -- Ch. 10. Schooling and Social Inequality: Race, Gender, and Class -- Liberal Ideology: Meritocracy Reexamined -- The Political-Economic Context -- Jane Elliott's Experiment -- Education: Race, Gender, and Class -- Theories of Social Inequality -- Bev: An Example of Cultural Subordination -- Pedagogical Approaches to Pluralism -- Ch. 11. Vocational and Liberal Education Today -- Contemporary Vocational Education: Theory and Practice -- The Future of the Workplace -- Vocational Education as a Teaching Method -- Liberal Education: Theory and Practice -- Ch. 12. Contemporary School Reform: 1983-1992 -- School Reform in the 1980s and 1990s -- Contemporary School Reform: A Critical View -- Current Concerns About School Reform -- Ch. 13. Conclusion: School and Contemporary Society -- The 1990s: Where Did the 1980s Leave Us? -- Educational Goals for the 1990s and Beyond.
Summary: Part One of this text examines educational themes in the historical context in which they first appeared. Part Two examines these themes in their contemporary contexts. Throughout, the relationship between social conditions, prevailing ideologies and educational practice is stressed.
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Ch. 1. Understanding School and Society --
Tools of Inquiry --
Analytic Framework --
Applying the Terms of Inquiry: Two Illustrations --
Pt. 1. Educational Aims in Historical Perspective --
Ch. 2. Liberty and Literacy: The Jeffersonian Ideal --
Political Economy of the Jeffersonian Era --
Ideology of the Jeffersonian Era --
Jefferson's Plan for Popular Education --
Ch. 3. School as a Public Institution: The Common School Era --
Political Economy of the Common School Era --
Horace Mann: An Exemplar of Reform --
Mann and the Common Schools --
Ch. 4. Schooling and Social Inequality: The Booker T. Washington Solution --
Political-Economic Dimensions of Reconstruction and Redemption --
Reconstruction, Redemption, and African-American Schooling --
Booker T. Washington's Career --
An Ideology of African-American Inferiority --
William Edward Burghardt DuBois --
Ch. 5. Education for the Vocations: The Progressive Era --
The Political Economy of the Progressive Era --
New Liberal Ideology --
Progressive Education --
Deweyan Developmental Democracy --
Ch. 6. Culture and Control: Schooling and the American Indian --
Political-Economic Foundations of Indian Schooling --
Ideology --
Schooling and the Native American --
Ch. 7. National School Reform: The Cold War Era --
Political Economy and Ideology of the Early Cold War Era --
James Bryant Conant --
Pt. 2. Educational Aims in Contemporary Society --
Ch. 8. Liberty and Literacy in the United States Today --
A Brief Historical Perspective Literacy as a Social Construction --
Four Contemporary Perspectives on Literacy --
Hegemony Theory Literacy and Ideology --
Ch. 9. Public School Teaching: A Gendered Profession --
School Reform and the Professionalization of Teaching --
Professionalization of Teaching: Historical Perspective --
Sociological Perspective: Criteria for a Profession --
Weakness of the Professionalization Model: Critical Perspectives --
Ideology and Teacher Professionalization --
Ch. 10. Schooling and Social Inequality: Race, Gender, and Class --
Liberal Ideology: Meritocracy Reexamined --
The Political-Economic Context --
Jane Elliott's Experiment --
Education: Race, Gender, and Class --
Theories of Social Inequality --
Bev: An Example of Cultural Subordination --
Pedagogical Approaches to Pluralism --
Ch. 11. Vocational and Liberal Education Today --
Contemporary Vocational Education: Theory and Practice --
The Future of the Workplace --
Vocational Education as a Teaching Method --
Liberal Education: Theory and Practice --
Ch. 12. Contemporary School Reform: 1983-1992 --
School Reform in the 1980s and 1990s --
Contemporary School Reform: A Critical View --
Current Concerns About School Reform --
Ch. 13. Conclusion: School and Contemporary Society --
The 1990s: Where Did the 1980s Leave Us? --
Educational Goals for the 1990s and Beyond.

Part One of this text examines educational themes in the historical context in which they first appeared. Part Two examines these themes in their contemporary contexts. Throughout, the relationship between social conditions, prevailing ideologies and educational practice is stressed.

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