1st Edition

The American Teacher Foundations of Education

352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

The American Teacher is a comprehensive education foundations text with an emphasis on the historical continuity of educational issues and their practical application in the classroom. Aspiring teachers enter the classrooms with an innate optimism, and the challenge of The American Teacher is to engage them and to provide meaningful direction to channel their idealism. By reconnecting... Read more

@contents:SECTION 1: THE AMERICAN TEACHER

1. THE AMERICAN TEACHER

SECTION 2: TEACHING IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

2. PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION

3. MULTICULTURAL CLASSROOM

4. JUST OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM

SECTION 3: OUR EDUCATIONAL HERITAGE

5. CLASSICAL AND GLOBAL ROOTS OF EDUCATION

6. AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

7. AMERICA’S DIVERSE SOCIETY

SECTION 4: RESHAPING OUR WORLD THROUGH TEACHING

8. SCHOOL CURRICULUM

9. INSTRUCTION AND DISCIPLINE

SECTION 5: THE NOBLE PROFESSION

10. ORGANIZATION AND FUNDING OF SCHOOLS

11. RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITY AND THE LAW

12. THE NOBLE PROFESSION

Biography

Donald H. Parkerson is Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Professor of History at East Carolina University.

Jo Ann Parkerson is Professor Emeritus of Education at Methodist University.