Exploring Education: An Introduction to the Foundations of Education - Softcover

Sadovnik, Alan R.; Cookson, Peter W.; Semel, Susan F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205141919 ISBN 13: 9780205141913

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1994

Synopsis

Introduces students to the foundations disciplines - politics, history, sociology and philosophy - and their application to educational issues such as schools, curriculum, teaching, inequality and reform. This integrated reader provides a critical, balanced treatment of these issues.

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From the Back Cover

Key Benefits: This text is for professors who enjoy designing their own courses and assignments and want to foster critical thinking in their students. Key Topics: An integrated textbook/reader that introduces students to the foundations disciplines politics, history, sociology, and philosophy and their application to educational issues. It is an alternative to traditional textbooks in that it provides a more critical, sophisticated, and balanced treatment of the issues, it has a point of view, and it is based on the authors' belief that students should read primary sources rather than short, simplistic summaries of topics. Market: Foundations of Education, School and Society, and Sociology of Education courses.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205141919
• ISBN 13: 9780205141913
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 608