The American school : a global context from the Puritans to the Obama era / Joel Spring.
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TextPublisher: Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2011Edition: Eighth editionDescription: xii, 459 pages: illustrationContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780078097843 [paperback]Subject(s): Education -- History. -- United States | Education -- History. -- Social aspects -- United StatesDDC classification: | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 370.9 K95 2003 Comparative education : | 370.973 M23 2004 Foundations of education : | 370.973 Or63 2014 Foundations of education / | 370.973 Sp82 2011 The American school : | 370 Eb39 2012 Introduction to education / | 371.10 C16 2014 Classroom management strategies : | 371.102 Ar33 2009 Learning to teach / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: 1 Thinking critically about history -- 2 Globalization and religion in colonial education -- 3 Nationalism, multiculturalism, and moral reform in the new republic -- 4 The ideology and politics of the common school -- 5 The common school and the threat of cultural pluralism -- 6 Organizing the american school: teachers and bureaucracy -- 7 Multiculturalism and the failure of the common school ideal -- 8 Global migration and the growth of the welfare function of schools -- 9 Human capital: high school, junior high school, and the vocational guidance and education -- 10 Scientific school management: testing, immigrants, and experts -- 11 The politics of knowledge: teachers' unions, the american legion, and the american way -- 12 Schools, media, and popular culture; influencing the minds of children and teenagers -- 13 American schools and global politics: the cold war and poverty -- 14 The fruits of globalization: civil rights, global migration, and multicultural education -- 15 Globalizing the american school: from nixon to obama.
General Education General Education : Sociology
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