Foundations of Education

<i>Foundations of Education</i> is organized around the major problems facing contemporary American education. It offers a thorough scholarly treatment of these problems from historical philosophical and sociological perspectives bringing together relevant findings from those disciplines to analyze and illuminate a wide range of issues. Each chapter focuses on a core topic (including race gender equal opportunities school governance) to give students a solid overview providing intellectually sound material that offers real depth and challenges students to think creatively.<br/><br/>Packed with exercises discussion questions international case studies for comparative purposes and supported by a fully up-to-date companion website this is a text that responds to current developments changes and trends in teacher education. Foundations of Education will prepare a new generation of educators for a globalized and technology-driven society that needs to be aware of its best educational traditions its current problems and its future possibilities.