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Presents a history of teacher education in the United States, highlighting four dilemmas that are crucial to the task of rethinking and deepening the reform agenda: new knowledge in the arts and sciences that has stimula...
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This response to Tozer's position paper on the social foundations of education endorses the spirit of Tozer's proposals but not their formulation or rationale. The paper argues for the pursuit of multiple educational str...
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The history of public education in the United States is outlined, with emphasis on the role of public schools in binding a diverse citizenry and transmitting civic values and traditions. Included is a discussion of the c...
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Inseparable histories of teaching, teachers, and teacher education point to social and institutional pressures on the development of teacher preparation over the past two centuries. Persistence of basic patterns of influ...
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The concept of teacher education as professional preparation for a career is explored in this article. Through the study of educational foundations, the teacher develops abilities of self-criticism or "second thinking." ...
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Discusses the rural-urban dichotomy that regularly surfaces in educational history and argues that a full understanding of the role of cities is needed to overcome a rural romanticism that ill-serves public education pol...
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Reviews the history of federal involvement in education before 1870, using recent research and methodology and a model of "crescive" (growing by increments) versus "enacted" (rationally created) institutions. Notes feder...
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Foundations of education represent an amalgam of discipline and issue-oriented approaches in teacher education. Foundations create a condition of effective preparation for a career that demands more than classroom perfor...
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This book of essays is a survey of recent developments in the history and historiography of American education. It highlights disagreements among practitioners of the art, significant research, book reviews, and contribu...
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An historical treatment of the Office of Education's establishment in 1867, the reform expectations which accompanied its creation, and a discussion of the reasons for its failure to become an effective force in providin...