Foundations of Education: Problems and Possibilities in American Education

By Samuel M. Craver

Book Overview

Foundations of Education is organized around the major problems facing contemporary American education. It offers a thorough, scholarly treatment of these problems from historical, philosophical, and sociological perspectives, bringing together relevant findings from those disciplines to analyze and illuminate a wide range of issues. Each chapter focuses on a core topic (including race, gender, equal opportunities, school governance) to give students a solid overview, providing intellectually sound material that offers real depth and challenges students to think creatively.

Packed with exercises, discussion questions, international case studies for comparative purposes and supported by a fully up-to-date companion website, this is a text that responds to current developments, changes, and trends in teacher education. Foundations of Education will prepare a new generation of educators for a globalized and technology-driven society that needs to be aware of its best educational traditions, its current problems and its future possibilities.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441140956
• ISBN13: 9781441140951
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"