Educational Foundations articles from June 2006

Educational Foundations archives from June 2006

Social foundations of education and democracy: teacher education for the development of democratically oriented teachers.(Report)
June 22, 2006... There is only one road to democracy: education. (Barber 1997) Introduction I am a teacher educator who for 10 years regularly taught a Social Foundations course to Master's-level education students at a small liberal arts college in...

The politics of school districting: a case study in upstate New York.(Case study)
June 22, 2006... Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Plessy doctrine of "separate but equal" in 1953 in Brown v. Board of Education, the nation has not moved steadily towards the envisioned ideal of equal educational opportunity--a requisite of which,...

Identity-centered multicultural care theory: white, black, and Korean caring.(Essay)
June 22, 2006... Introduction There is a very intimate relationship between how caring the teacher is and the knowledge that students gain. Actually, it is not limited to student-teacher relationships only but also student-student relationships. Knowledge...

Nonhumans unbound: actor-network theory and the reconsideration of "things" in educational foundations.(Essay)
June 22, 2006... The Missing Discourse of Things as Educational Actors "The Race War has begun. Your skin is your uniform in this battle for the survival of your kind. The White Race depends on you to secure its existence. Your peoples [sic] enemies...

Colonial instillations in American Indian boarding school students.(Essay)
June 22, 2006... There is a general knowledge about the United States governments' deliberate attempts to destroy American Indian cultures. Our history books tell of American Indian students being locked in week long routines to keep them out of mischief,...

The promise of Black teachers' success with Black students.(Essay)
June 22, 2006... In this article, I discuss African American (1) researchers' perspectives on the experiences, impact and success of Black teachers with Black students in public schools. This study builds on an earlier study that focused specifically on these...

John Dewey and the Art of Teaching: Toward Reflective and Imaginative Practice.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... John Dewey and the Art of Teaching: Toward Reflective and Imaginative Practice D. Simpson, M. Jackson, & J. Aycock Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005. John Dewey and the Art of Teaching: Toward Reflective and Imaginative Practice...