Exploring Education

Based upon the belief that a “foundations perspective” is a valuable tool in helping to improve schools, this text offers an alternative to traditional foundational texts by combining a point-of-view analysis with primary source readings. Pre-service and practicing teachers will find a solid introduction to the foundations disciplines -- history, philosophy, politics, and sociology of education -- and their application to educational issues including school organization and teaching, curriculum and pedagogic practices, education and inequality, and school reform and improvement.
Features:

• Incorporates primary source readings that reflect the most updated perspectives and data, giving students illustrations of concepts and providing opportunities for critical and reflective thinking.
• Includes current achievement data representing the effects of educational reform.
• Offers a point of view that balances realistic analysis of problems and solutions called the foundations perspective. This provides prospective teachers with a view of the opportunities and possibilities of school reform.
• Discusses the separate foundations disciplines -- politics, history, philosophy, sociology -- that make up the foundations perspective giving students a base for understanding each of the foundations.
• Addresses the interdisciplinary application of foundations disciplines to educational problems and solutions showing students the interdisciplinary nature of the foundations perspective.