EDU 111—Perspectives on American Education: Topic 3: Historical Foundations of Education

Topic 3: Historical Foundations of Education

Key Issue: Corporal Punishment

“Is Corporal Punishment an Effective Means of Discipline?” (APA)

“Perspectives on the Effects of Corporal Punishment: Comment on Gershoff (2002),” G. W. Holden (2002)

Key Issue: Single-Sex Education

Single-sec education: Pros and cons

“The Pseudoscience of Single-Sex Schooling,” Halpern, et al. (2011)

NYT related coverage of Halpern, et al.

Progressive education: An overview

John Dewey’s Theories of Education, W. F. Warde (1960)

Experience and Education, John Dewey

Key Issue: Parental Public School Choice

“Fixing the Milwaukee Public Schools: The Limits of Parent-Driven Reform,” David Dodenhoff (2007)

“Arts of the Possible,” Adrienne Rich (2001)

Universal public education has two possible—and contradictory—missions. One is the development of a literate, articulate, and well-informed citizenry so that the democratic process can continue to evolve and the promise of radical equality can be brought closer to realization. The other is the perpetuation of a class system dividing an elite, nominally “gifted” few, tracked from an early age, from a very large underclass essentially to be written off as alienated from language and science, from poetry and politics, from history and hope—toward low-wage temporary jobs. The second is the direction our society has taken. The results are devastating in terms of the betrayal of a generation of youth. The loss to the whole of society is incalculable. (p. 162)

EDU 111—Perspectives on American Education

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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Topic 3: Historical Foundations of Education

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