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Educational foundations : an anthology of critical readings / edited by Alan S. Canestrari and Bruce A. Marlowe

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Thousand Oaks, California : Sage Publications, Incorporation, c2013Edition: Third EditionDescription: xxi, 256 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781452216768
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LC 196 .E38 .2013
Contents:
pt. I. Why teach? -- 1. Letters to a young teacher : why new recruits leave inner-city classrooms and what it will take to keep them there / Jonathan Kozol -- 2. The green Monongahela / John Taylor Gatto -- 3. Why teach? / Herbert Kohl -- pt. II. Who are today's students? -- 4. What should teachers do? Ebonics and culturally responsive instruction / Lisa Delpit -- 5. Racism, discrimination, and expectations of students' achievement / Sonia Nieto -- 6. Inclusion : rejecting instruction that disables / Bruce A. Marlowe and Marilyn Page -- 7. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students : perceived social support in the high school environment / Corrine Munoz-Plaza, Sandra C. Quinn, and Kathleen A. Rounds -- pt. III. What makes a good teacher? -- 8. The banking concept of education / Paulo Freire -- 9. On stir-and-serve recipes for teaching / Susan Ohanian -- 10. Psst ... it ain't about the tests : it's still about great teaching / Robert DiGiulio -- pt. IV. What do good schools look like? -- 11. The idea of Summerhill / A.S. Neill -- 12. Success in East Harlem : how one group of teachers built a school that works / Deborah Meier -- 13. Beyond the deficit paradigm : an ecological orientation to thriving urban schools / Kelly Donnell -- pt. V. How should we assess student learning? -- 14. A mania for rubrics -- Thomas Newkirk -- 15. Grading : the issue is not how but why? / Alfie Kohn -- 16. Confessions of a "bad" teacher / William Johnson -- 17. How, and how not, to improve the schools / Diane Ravitch -- pt. VI. How does one develop a critical voice? -- 18. Teachers as transformative intellectuals / Henry Giroux -- 19. Resistance and courage : a conversation with Deborah Meier / Alan S. Canestrari and Bruce A. Marlowe -- 20. From silence to dissent : fostering critical voice in teachers / Alan S. Canestrari and Bruce A. Marlowe -- pt. VII. How do we move forward? -- 21. Poor teaching for poor children ... in the name of reform / Alfie Kohn -- 22. Necessary muddles : children's language learning in the classroom / Darlene Witte-Townsend -- 23. Teacher unionism reborn / Lois Weiner -- Epilogue -- The quest : achieving ideological escape velocity : becoming an activist teacher / Ann Gibson Winfield.
Summary: A teacher's guide to teaching twenty-three selected works that focus on critical thinking.
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Includes index.

pt. I. Why teach? -- 1. Letters to a young teacher : why new recruits leave inner-city classrooms and what it will take to keep them there / Jonathan Kozol -- 2. The green Monongahela / John Taylor Gatto -- 3. Why teach? / Herbert Kohl -- pt. II. Who are today's students? -- 4. What should teachers do? Ebonics and culturally responsive instruction / Lisa Delpit -- 5. Racism, discrimination, and expectations of students' achievement / Sonia Nieto -- 6. Inclusion : rejecting instruction that disables / Bruce A. Marlowe and Marilyn Page -- 7. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students : perceived social support in the high school environment / Corrine Munoz-Plaza, Sandra C. Quinn, and Kathleen A. Rounds -- pt. III. What makes a good teacher? -- 8. The banking concept of education / Paulo Freire -- 9. On stir-and-serve recipes for teaching / Susan Ohanian -- 10. Psst ... it ain't about the tests : it's still about great teaching / Robert DiGiulio -- pt. IV. What do good schools look like? -- 11. The idea of Summerhill / A.S. Neill -- 12. Success in East Harlem : how one group of teachers built a school that works / Deborah Meier -- 13. Beyond the deficit paradigm : an ecological orientation to thriving urban schools / Kelly Donnell -- pt. V. How should we assess student learning? -- 14. A mania for rubrics -- Thomas Newkirk -- 15. Grading : the issue is not how but why? / Alfie Kohn -- 16. Confessions of a "bad" teacher / William Johnson -- 17. How, and how not, to improve the schools / Diane Ravitch -- pt. VI. How does one develop a critical voice? -- 18. Teachers as transformative intellectuals / Henry Giroux -- 19. Resistance and courage : a conversation with Deborah Meier / Alan S. Canestrari and Bruce A. Marlowe -- 20. From silence to dissent : fostering critical voice in teachers / Alan S. Canestrari and Bruce A. Marlowe -- pt. VII. How do we move forward? -- 21. Poor teaching for poor children ... in the name of reform / Alfie Kohn -- 22. Necessary muddles : children's language learning in the classroom / Darlene Witte-Townsend -- 23. Teacher unionism reborn / Lois Weiner -- Epilogue -- The quest : achieving ideological escape velocity : becoming an activist teacher / Ann Gibson Winfield.

A teacher's guide to teaching twenty-three selected works that focus on critical thinking.

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