Title:
Education, markets, and the public good : the selected works of David F. Labaree
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Publication Information:
London, UK : Routledge, 2007
Physical Description:
vii, 184 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9780415369947
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Summary
Summary
David F. Labaree has spent the last twenty years researching, thinking and writing about some of the key and enduring issues in the history of education and education policy and politics. Here, he brings together twelve of his key writings in one place. Starting with a specially written introduction, 'Getting It Wrong', which gives an ironic overview of how the ideas in his work have evolved over time and throws light on the process of scholarly production, the chapters cover such topics as:
the structure of the educational system conflicting purposes of education the core problems of practice in teaching and teacher education barriers to curriculum reform.An ideal resource for anyone wanting to know more about the development of schools and schooling and David Labaree's contribution to these important fields.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: "Getting It Wrong" |
| Chapter 1 "Academic Excellence in an Early U.S. High School." |
| Chapter 2 "Curriculum, Credentials, and the Middle Class: A Case Study of a Nineteenth Century High School" |
| Chapter 3 "Power, knowledge, and the science of teaching: A genealogy of teacher professionalization |
| Chapter 4 "Doing Good, Doing Science: The Holmes Group Reports and the Rhetorics of Educational Reform" |
| Chapter 5 "From Comprehensive High School to Community College: Politics, Markets, and the Evolution of Educational Opportunity |
| Chapter 6 "Public Goods, Private Goods: The American Struggle over Educational Goals" |
| Chapter 7 "The Chronic Failure of Curriculum Reform" |
| Chapter 8 "Resisting Educational Standards." |
| Chapter 9 "The Trouble with Ed Schools" |
| Chapter 10 "On the Nature of Teaching and Teacher Education: Difficult Practices that Look Easy" |
| Chapter 11 "Educational Researchers: Living with a Lesser Form of Knowledge" |
| Chapter 12 "Progressivism, Schools, and Schools of Education: An American Romance" |
| Chapter 13 "No Exit: Public Education as an Inescapably Public Good" |
