Scientists in the Classroom

Scientists in the Classroom
Author: J. Rudolph
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2002-05-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0230107362

During the 1950s, leading American scientists embarked on an unprecedented project to remake high school science education. Dissatisfaction with the 'soft' school curriculum of the time advocated by the professional education establishment, and concern over the growing technological sophistication of the Soviet Union, led government officials to encourage a handful of elite research scientists, fresh from their World War II successes, to revitalize the nations' science curricula. In Scientists in the Classroom , John L. Rudolph argues that the Cold War environment, long neglected in the history of education literature, is crucial to understanding both the reasons for the public acceptance of scientific authority in the field of education and the nature of the curriculum materials that were eventually produced. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped resources from government and university archives, Rudolph focuses on the National Science Foundation-supported curriculum projects initiated in 1956. What the historical record reveals, according to Rudolph, is that these materials were designed not just to improve American science education, but to advance the professional interest of the American scientific community in the postwar period as well.

The Courts and Education

The Courts and Education
Author: Clifford P. Hooker
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1978-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780226601243

The Seventy-Seventh Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part I

The Teaching of English

The Teaching of English
Author: James R. Squire
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 1977-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780226601229

The Seventy-Sixth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part I

The Forty Eighth Yearbook Of The National Society For The Study Of Education

The Forty Eighth Yearbook Of The National Society For The Study Of Education
Author: Nelson B. Henry
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2013-05-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1473384982

This is a fascinating glimpse into the world of teaching in 1948. The worry of teachers in America at the time seems to be learning to teach children using new forms of media such as radio and film and how to combat children wasting their time reading comics.

A Coherent Curriculum for Every Student

A Coherent Curriculum for Every Student
Author: Edmund C. Short
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2019-10-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475852622

This book exhibits a collection of proposals for how school curriculum may be conceived, designed, and realized. These proposals are drawn from writers both past and present who have presented some particular vision of what curriculum could be like for Pre-K--12 schools and have sought to convince others to adopt their proposal for use in some actual school situation. The proposals differ from one another in a variety of ways, including in their purposes, their contents, and their perspectives, and thus pose a wealth of options for consideration by those who are planning to change their school curriculum to something new and more suitable for their particular clientele. Readers will need to weigh the appeal of various proposals presented here against criteria they have for locating an optimum model for their particular situation. The proposals selected for inclusion in this book address the whole of the curriculum–all levels, all subjects, all age-groups; they deal with entire program change rather than with incidental changes in content, program arrangements, teaching approaches, or other limited alterations. This book is intended to be a useful resource for those responsible for making decisions in a particular school or school district or at a broader policy-making level, about what the entire curriculum should be and should include. It draws attention to the work of many thoughtful persons who have dealt with the issue of what a coherent curriculum might be like and who, in some instances, have set up actual programs based on their ideas.

Learning Democracy

Learning Democracy
Author: Brian M. Puaca
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2009
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781845455682

Scholarship on the history of West Germany's educational system has traditionally portrayed the postwar period of Allied occupation as a failure and the following decades as a time of pedagogical stagnation. Two decades after World War II, however, the Federal Republic had become a stable democracy, a member of NATO, and a close ally of the West. Had the schools really failed to contribute to this remarkable transformation of German society and political culture? This study persuasively argues that long before the protest movements of the late 1960s, the West German educational system was undergoing meaningful reform from within. Although politicians and intellectual elites paid little attention to education after 1945, administrators, teachers, and pupils initiated significant changes in schools at the local level. The work of these actors resulted in an array of democratic reforms that signaled a departure from the authoritarian and nationalistic legacies of the past. The establishment of exchange programs between the United States and West Germany, the formation of student government organizations and student newspapers, the publication of revised history and civics textbooks, the expansion of teacher training programs, and the creation of a Social Studies curriculum all contributed to the advent of a new German educational system following World War II. The subtle, incremental reforms inaugurated during the first two postwar decades prepared a new generation of young Germans for their responsibilities as citizens of a democratic state.

A History of American Education

A History of American Education
Author: Joseph Watras
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN:

An engaging look at the past and present of schools and schooling, A History of American Education, 1/e examines the effects, influences, and implications of globalization on education in the United States. From the early colonial days to the diverse present, this text vividly reconstructs the highlights and challenges of education in America. It explores the ideas of key educators, the interaction between the public's ideals and the realities of schools, and the consequences of educational reforms within the larger context of an increasingly global and connected society. Unlike other history texts, this book also offers considerable information about changes in curriculum, educational administration, and teaching practices.