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More than any other field in education, the social and cultural foundations of education reflect many of the conflicts, tensions, and forces in American society. This is hardly surprising, since the area focuses on issues such as race, gender, socioeconomic class, the impact of technology on learning, what it means to be educated, and the role of teaching and learning in a societal context.
The Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education provides a comprehensive introduction to the social and cultural foundations of education. With more than 400 entries, the three volumes of this indispensable resource offer a thorough and interdisciplinary view of the field for all those interested in issues involving schools and society.
Key Features
· Provides an interdisciplinary perspective from areas such as comparative education, educational anthropology, educational sociology, the history of education, and the philosophy of education
· Presents essays on major movements in the field, including the Free School and Visual Instruction movements
· Includes more than 130 biographical entries on important men and women in education
· Offers interpretations of legal material including Brown v. Board of Education(1954) and the GI Bill of Rights
· Explores theoretical debates fundamental to the field such as religion in the public school curriculum, rights of students and teachers, surveillance in schools, tracking and detracking, and many more
· Contains a visual history of American education with nearly 350 images and an accompanying narrative
Key Themes
· Arts, Media, and Technology
· Curriculum
· Economic Issues
· Equality and Social Stratification
· Evaluation, Testing, and Research Methods
· History of Education
· Law and Public Policy
· Literacy
· Multiculturalism and Special Populations
· Organizations, Schools, and Institutions
· Religion and Social Values
· School Governance
· Sexuality and Gender
· Teachers
· Theories, Models, and Philosophical Perspectives
· A Visual History of American Education
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Raymond Shores
reviewed Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education on May 23, 2009
Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education
"All education practice implies a theoretical stance on the educator's part." p.21
In this, his lesser known book, Paulo Freire writes about adult literacy education in terms of its potential to be 'cultural action for freedom'. Literacy is not, clearly, a purely technical skill. "Such a naive approach would be incapable of perceiving that technique itself as an instrument of men in their orientation in the world is not neutral." p.22
The freedom he refer to is from the imposition of paradigms of western thought and oppression. How those outside of the western literary class can learn to use writing to forward their own interests, to express their own independent thinking. He is talking about ex-colonial situations but for me it became easy to see his ideas as relevant to any people outside of the literary scene, as most people are, in Western countries. Most people may be able to write but the way they have been taught writing is by imitating and revering the western literary canon. Working class people with a 'good' Humanist education are often unable to think critically about their actual lived situations I have found.
It struck me how much Freire's book preceded the similar ideas of Ranciere in Ignorant Schoolmaster by some ten years.
I'll expand on this in my blog soon...
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