The Trouble with Ed Schools

Labaree, David F.

ISBN 10: 030011978X / ISBN 13: 9780300119787

Published by Yale University Press, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Trouble with Ed Schools
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 030011978X
• ISBN 13: 9780300119787
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

American schools of education get little respect. They are portrayed as intellectual wastelands, as impractical and irrelevant, as the root cause of bad teaching and inadequate learning. In this book a sociologist and historian of education examines the historical developments and contemporary factors that have resulted in the unenviable status of ed schools, offering valuable insights into the problems of these beleaguered institutions.
David F. Labaree explains how the poor reputation of the ed school has had important repercussions, shaping the quality of its programs, its recruitment, and the public response to the knowledge it offers. He notes the special problems faced by ed schools as they prepare teachers and produce research and researchers. And he looks at the consequences of the ed school’s attachment to educational progressivism. Throughout these discussions, Labaree maintains an ambivalent position about education schools―admiring their dedication and critiquing their mediocrity, their romantic rhetoric, and their compliant attitudes.

About the Author

David F. Labaree is professor in the School of Education at Stanford University. He is the author of How to Succeed in School Without Really Learning: The Credentials Race in American Education and The Making of an American High School: The Credentials Market and the Central High School of Philadelphia, 1838-1939, both published by Yale University Press.