دانلود کتاب The American school : a global context from the Puritans to the Obama era

A Global Context From the Puritans to the Obama Era by Joel Spring focuses on the process of educational globalization and the development of American schools in a global context. --Book Jacket. 1. Thinking critically about history --Interpreting school history: from the right to the left --Purposes of educational history and its effect on public images and emotions regarding schools --Themes in American educational history --Globalization framework --The effect of cultural and religious differences on schools --Schools as managers of public thought --Racial and ethnic conflict as a theme in school history --The role in educational history of equality of opportunity and human capital --Consumer and environmental education --2. Globalization and religion in colonial education --Education and culture in colonial society --The role of education in colonial society --Historical interpretations of colonial education --Authority and social status in colonial education --Colonialism and educational policy --Language and cultural conflict --Native Americans: education as cultural imperialism --Enslaved Africans: Atlantic Creoles --Enslaved Africans: the plantation system --The idea of secular freedom: freedom of thought and the establishment of academies --Benjamin Franklin and education as social mobility --The family and the child --Conclusion --3. Nationalism, multiculturalism, and moral reform in the new republic --World culture theorists --The problem of cultural diversity --Noah Webster: nationalism and the creation of a dominant culture --Thomas Jefferson: a natural aristocracy --Moral reform and faculty psychology --Concepts of childhood: protected, working, poor, rural, and enslaved --Charity schools, the Lancasterian system, and prisons --Institutional change and the American college --Public versus private schools --Conclusion: continuing issues in American education --4. The ideology and politics of the Common School --Three distinctive features of the Common School Movement --Workingmen and the struggle for a republican education --How much government involvement in schools? The Whigs and the Democrats --The birth of the high school --The continuing debate about the Common School ideal --Conclusion --5. The Common School and the threat of cultural pluralism --The increasing multicultural population of the United States --Irish Catholics: a threat to Anglo-American schools and culture --Slavery and freedom in the North: African Americans and school in the new republic --Native Americans --Conclusion. 6. Organizing the American school: teachers and bureaucracy --The American teacher --Revolution in teaching methods: object learning --The evolution of bureaucracy: a global model --The age-graded classroom --McGuffey's Readers and the spirit of capitalism --Conclusion --7. Multiculturalism and the failure of the Common School ideal --Mexican Americans: race and citizenship --Asian Americans: exclusion and segregation --Native American citizenship --Educational racism and deculturalization --Citizenship for African Americans --Issues regarding Puerto Rican citizenship --Conclusion: setting the stage for the great Civil Rights Movement --8. Global migration and the growth of the welfare function of schools --Immigration from southern and eastern Europe --The Kindergarten Movement --Home Economics: education of the new consumer woman --School cafeterias, the American cuisine, and processed foods --The Play Movement --Summer school --Social centers --The New Culture Wars --Resisting segregation: African Americans --Resisting segregation: Mexican Americans --Native American boarding schools --Resisting discrimination: Asian Americans --Educational resistance in Puerto Rico --Conclusion: public schooling as America's welfare institution --9. Human capital: high school, junior high school, and vocational guidance and education --The high school --Vocational education --Junior high school --Adapting the classroom to the workplace: lesson plans --Adapting the classroom to the workplace: progressivism --Adapting the classroom to the workplace: stimulus-response --Classroom management as preparation for factory life --Historical interpretations: public benefit or corporate greed? --Conclusion: the meaning of equality of opportunity --10. Scientific school management: testing, immigrants, and experts --Scientifically managed schools: meritocracy and reducing public control --Professionalizing educational administration --Measurement, democracy, and the superiority of Anglo-Americans --Closing the door to immigrants: the 1924 Immigration Act --"Backward" children and special classrooms --Eugenics and the Age of Sterilization --The university and meritocracy --Conclusion. 11. The politics of knowledge: teachers' unions, the American Legion, and the American way --Teachers versus administrators: the American Federation of Teachers --The rise of the National Education Association --The political changes of the depression years --The politics of ideological management: the American Legion --Selling the "American way" in schools and on billboards --Conclusion --12. Schools, media, and popular culture: influencing the minds of children and teenagers --Censorship of movies as a form of public education --Educators and the movies --The production code: movies as educators --Should commercial radio or educators determine national culture? --Creating the superhero for children's radio --Controlling the influence of comic books --Educating children as consumers --The creation of teenage markets --Children and youth from the 1950s to the Twenty-first Century --Conclusion --13. American schools and global politics: the Cold War and poverty --Youth unemployment: universal military service and the GI Bill --The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the Educational Testing Service --The Cold War and purging the schools of communists --American schools: weakest link to global victory? --Global imperatives: the National Defense Education Act --Schools and the War on Poverty --Sesame Street and educational television --Conclusion --14. The fruits of globalization: civil rights, global migration, and multicultural education --Ending school segregation of national minorities --The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. --Native Americans and indigenous educational rights --Asian Americans: educating the "model minority" --Hispanic/Latino Americans --Bilingual education: the Culture Wars continued --The Immigration Act of 1965 and the new American population --Multicultural education and the Culture Wars --Schools and the International women's Movement --Children with special needs --The coloring of Textbook Town --Liberating the Textbook Town housewife for more consumption --Conclusion: the Cold War and civil rights --15. Globalizing the American school: from Nixon to Obama --School prayer and bible reading --The Nixon years: career education and busing --Accountability and standardized testing --Global educational goals: national standards, choice, and savage inequalities --The end of the Common School: choice, privatization, and charter schools --Educating for the consumer economy --Education for global work and consumption --The 2008 election: global economy and cultural divide --Global crisis and the demise of environmental education --Conclusion: from Horace Mann to Barack Obama.