First published in 1899, "The School and Society "describes John Dewey's experiences with his own famous Laboratory School, started in 1896. Dewey's experiments at the Labora-tory School reflected his original...
This book examines the connections between public school reform in the early twentieth century and American political development from 1890 to 1940.
The Sixth Edition includes twenty new selections and five revisions of original readings and features new perspectives on some of the most contested issues in the field today, such as school funding, gender issues in schools, parent and ...
This widely used text has been expanded to include the most important issues in contemporary schooling, including: New end-of-chapter sections for Further Reading.
Eighteen essays by an expert on arts education demonstrate the usefulness and importance of the arts in sparking students' creativity and thinking skills and offer specific recommendations for restoring and paying for the arts in the public ...
This is the basis for hands-on learning, and helping students to relate the subject matter to their prior experiences in order to gain a deeper understanding of what they're learning.
Shor interprets school politics after 1969 as an attempt to use the curriculum to intervene in global crises. In his analysis of official efforts to adjust curricula to conform to...
This book explores the relationships between education, lifelong learning and democratic citizenship.
This book is designed to examine issues related to schools, violence, and society.
This book analyzes the origins of school assessment and of international trends in practice, and explores the ideology of assessment which is now so widely accepted yet rarely questioned.