Foundations of Education

• Only book available that provides truly extended selections from classic and contemporary foundational writings by the most widely taught authors.

• Organized around the separate foundations disciplines — politics, history, philosophy, sociology — that lay the basis for any serious study of education.

• A comprehensive introduction places the selections in historical, philosophical, cultural, and social contexts, and helps the reader to better understand their impact on educational practice past, present, and future.

• Questions for further study highlight selections’ continued importance and application to today’s most pressing educational issues

This book is unique in that it offers readers pieces that have been part of the cannon of social foundation texts and explores the new directions of social foundations of education. We believe that the work in the "new directions" section represents the kind of work that will be considered foundational pieces for the next generation of teachers and teacher educators. This book has been updated to meet the changing needs of teacher education programs. We have separated this work into two parts. Part 1 remains dedicated to exploring foundational pieces from well-known education scholars in the history, philosophy, politics, and sociology of education. Some of the original works remain part of the text, but others have been swapped out for works that are more relevant to today’s conversation about education and schooling. We have added a whole new section, Part II, which looks at the new directions of conversations in U.S. education, which are not so easily siloed into one of these four fields. These include topics such as disability studies, critical race theory, gender studies, and culturally relevant pedagogy, etc.