| Edition |
Seventh edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Applying History to Education Today -- History and Purposes of Educational History -- Intellectual Background -- Gaining Perspective Through Critical Analysis -- History in Action in Today's Classrooms -- Modern Educational Philosophies: Shaping the Schools -- Introduction to Educational Philosophy -- Schools of Educational Philosophy -- Gaining Perspective Through Critical Analysis -- History in Action in Today's Classrooms -- American Education: Our European Heritage and the Colonial Influence -- Colonial Melting Pot -- Religious Sectarianism -- Social Class in the Colonial Environment -- The Southern Colonies -- The Middle Colonies -- The New England Colonies -- Gaining Perspective Through Critical Analysis -- History in Action in Today's Classrooms -- American Education: The American Revolution -- Democratic Ideals -- Changes in Colonial Culture -- The Shift in the Colonial Mind -- Colonial Liberalism -- Educational Changes in the Later Colonial Period -- The War and After -- Efforts of Educational Founders -- Revolutionary Period Educational Leadership -- Early Government Proposals -- Other Educational Movements -- School Ideas and the Curriculum -- Gaining Perspective Through Critical Analysis -- History in Action in Today's Classrooms -- American Education: 1812-1865 -- Social, Political, and Economic Trends -- The Age of the Common School Revival -- Birth of the American High School -- Higher Education Before the Civil War -- American Educational Leadership -- European Influences -- Gaining Perspective Through Critical Analysis -- History in Action in Today's Classrooms -- American Education: 1865-1918 -- Inhibited Development of Education in the South -- National Affairs and Progress -- The Public School Ideal -- The American Public High School -- Vocational and Industrial Education -- Parochial and Private Education -- Higher Education -- Schools and Colleges for Minority Groups -- Teacher Education -- Development of Educational Philosophy -- Gaining Perspective Through Critical Analysis -- History in Action in Today's Classrooms -- American Education: 1918 to the Present -- Major Educational Changes -- Evolution of the Modern Institutional Structure -- School Finance and Control -- Federal Participation in Education -- Psychology and Education -- Child Study and Measurement -- Experiments and Innovations in the Twentieth Century -- Progressive Educators and Their Critics -- Academic Freedom and the Educational Profession -- Teacher Education -- Gaining Perspective Through Critical Analysis -- History in Action in Today's Classrooms -- Issues in Modern American Education -- Litigation: The Courts and Problems of Education -- More Recent Educational Critics -- Assessment and Accountability -- Taking Sides Today and Tomorrow -- Gaining Perspective Through Critical Analysis -- History in Action in Today's Classroom -- Educational Reform: 1980s and 1990s and the Search for Excellence -- The Great American Educational Reform Movement -- Achieving Excellence in Teacher Education -- Reform in Educational Administration -- The Search for Excellence Continues -- Gaining Perspective Through Critical Analysis -- History in Action in Today's Classrooms -- Education in the Future: From Now to Then -- Trends in Education for the Twenty-First Century -- The Futures Movement -- Methods of Futures Research -- Schools of Futuristic Thought -- Implications for Educational Theory -- Characteristics of Futuristic Education -- Futures Curriculum -- Future Trends -- Gaining Perspective Through Critical Analysis -- History in Action in Today's Classrooms. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-314) and index. |
| Subject |
Education -- United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
Van Patten, James J.
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| ISBN |
0138496544 |
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