Author: Robert Archibald ScofieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Changes in the Concept of the Curriculum in the American High School Between Approximately 1890 and 1920
Author: Robert Archibald ScofieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Failed Promise of the American High School, 1890-1995
Author: David L. AngusPublisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 9780807738429
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This provocative new study of the American high school examines the historical debates about curriculum policy and also traces changes in the institution itself, as evidenced by what students actually studied. Contrary to conventional accounts, the authors argue that beginning in the 1930s, American high schools shifted from institutions primarily concerned with academic and vocational education to institutions mainly focused on custodial care of adolescents. Claiming that these changes reflected educators' racial, class, and gender biases, the authors offer original suggestions for policy adjustments that may lead to greater educational equality for our ever-growing and ever more diverse population of students.
Knowledge and Social Structure
Author: A. J. DavisonTinkering toward Utopia
Author: David B. TyackPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674267877
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
For over a century, Americans have translated their cultural anxieties and hopes into dramatic demands for educational reform. Although policy talk has sounded a millennial tone, the actual reforms have been gradual and incremental. Tinkering toward Utopia documents the dynamic tension between Americans’ faith in education as a panacea and the moderate pace of change in educational practices. In this book, David Tyack and Larry Cuban explore some basic questions about the nature of educational reform. Why have Americans come to believe that schooling has regressed? Have educational reforms occurred in cycles, and if so, why? Why has it been so difficult to change the basic institutional patterns of schooling? What actually happened when reformers tried to “reinvent” schooling? Tyack and Cuban argue that the ahistorical nature of most current reform proposals magnifies defects and understates the difficulty of changing the system. Policy talk has alternated between lamentation and overconfidence. The authors suggest that reformers today need to focus on ways to help teachers improve instruction from the inside out instead of decreeing change by remote control, and that reformers must also keep in mind the democratic purposes that guide public education.
Education in North America
Author: D. E. MulcahyPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472510704
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Education in North America is a concise and thorough reference guide to the main themes in American and Canadian education from their historical roots to the present time. The book brings a global awareness to the discussion of local issues in North American education and sheds light on the similar and different ways that Canada and the United States have moved in light of political and social changes. Scholarly contributions made by active researchers from the region provide an overview of each country's education system, the way in which it arose, and its current state of affairs.
American Education
Author: CEA. Colorado School Journal
Author: Colorado Education AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958
Author: Herbert M. KliebardPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415948906
Category : Curriculum planning
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Colorado School Journal
Author: Aaron GovePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
New Perspectives on the History of the Twentieth-Century American High School
Author: Kyle P. SteelePublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030799220
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The growth of the American high school that occurred in the twentieth century is among the most remarkable educational, social, and cultural phenomena of the twentieth century. The history of education, however, has often reduced the institution to its educational function alone, thus missing its significantly broader importance. As a corrective, this collection of essays serves four ends: as an introduction to the history of the high school; as a reevaluation of the power of narratives that privilege the perspective of school leaders and the curriculum; as a glimpse into the worlds created by students and their communities; and, most critically, as a means of sparking conversations about where we might look next for stories worth telling.