Exploring Education: An Introduction to the Foundations of Education

TLDR: For a survey of the history of education, see as mentioned in this paper, where the authors discuss the limits and promises of education: Toward Reflective Practitioners and toward reflective practitioners.

Abstract: Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1 The Limits and Promises of Education: Toward Reflective Practitioners Chapter 2 The Politics of Education: Conservative, Liberal, Radical, and Neo-liberal Perspectives * HIJACKED! How the Standards Movement Turned into the Testing Movement, Diane Ravitch * What "Counts" as Educational Policy? Notes toward a New Paradigm, Jean Anyon Chapter 3 The History of Education * Popular Schooling, Lawrence A. Cremin * Capital Accumulation, Class Conflict, And Educational Change, Samuel Bowles And Herbert Gintis Chapter 4 The Sociology of Education * The Contribution of Schooling to the Learning of Norms, Robert Dreeben * On Understanding the Processes of Schooling: The Contributions of Labeling Theory, Ray C. Rist * The Politics of Culture: Understanding Local Political Resistance to Detracking in Racially Mixed Schools, Amy Stuart Wells and Irene Sena Chapter 5 The Philosophy of Education and Its Significance for Teachers * My Pedagogic Creed, John Dewey * Wide-Awakeness and the Moral Life, Maxine Greene * The Ideal of the Educated Person, Jane Roland Martin Chapter 6 Schools as Organizations and Teacher Professionalization * Contradictions of Reform, Linda M. McNeil * Rich Land, Poor Schools, David Baker And Gerald Letendre * Is The Supply Of Mathematics And Science Teachers Sufficient? Richard M. Ingersoll And David Perda Chapter 7 Curriculum, Pedagogy, and the Transmission of Knowledge * The Politics of a National Curriculum, Michael W. Apple * The Mimetic and the Transformative: Alternative Outlooks on Teaching, Philip W. Jackson * The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children, Lisa D. Delpit Chapter 8 Equality of Opportunity and Educational Outcomes * Class and the Classroom: Even the Best Schools Can't Close the Race Achievement Gap, Richard Rothstein * Chartering and Bartering: Elite Education and Social Reproduction, Caroline Hodges Persell and Peter W. Cookson, Jr. * College-for-All: Do Students Understand What College Demands? James E. Rosenbaum Chapter 9 Explanations of Educational Inequality * It's Not "a Black Thing": Understanding the Burden of Acting White and Other Dilemmas of High Achievement, Karolyn Tyson, William Darity, and Domini Castellino * Gender Inequalities in Education, Claudia Buchman, Thomas A. Diprete, and Anne McDaniel * From social ties to social capital: Class differences in the relations between schools and parents networks, Erin McNamar Horvat, Elliot B. Weininger, and Annette Lareau * A Black Student's Reflection on Public and Private Schools, Imani Perry Chapter 10 Educational Reform and School Improvement * A Few Thoughts on Making This Work, Frederick Hess * Education and Poverty: Confronting the Evidence, Helen F. Ladd * The Politics of School Reform: A Broader and Bolder Approach for Newark, Pedro Noguera and Lauren Wells Appendix: Suggested Resources References Index