Educational thought in Western culture
Introduction
Prologue: modern and postmodern thought
"Orientation" editorial for The social frontier (1934) / George S. Counts
"The need for transcendence in the postmodern world" (1994) / Vaclav Havel
The aims of education
"My pedagogic creed" (1897) / John Dewey
Cardinal principles of secondary education (1918) / National Education Association
"A morally defensible mission for schools in the 21st century" (1997) / Nel Noddings
Society and education
Selection from notes on the state of Virginia (1781) / Thomas Jefferson
"Thoughts upon the mode of education proper in a republic" (1786) / Benjamin Rush
Selections from report no. 12 of the Massachusetts School Board (1848) / Horace Mann
Selection from Dare the schools build a new social order (1932) / George S. Counts
Compulsory schooling, education, and the transmission of culture
Massachusetts Compulsory School Law (1852) / General Court of Massachusetts
Selection from Compulsory mis-education (1964) / Paul Goodman
"Vulnerability in education" (1966) / Jules Henry
"The banking model of education" (1970) / Paulo Freire
"Why we must disestablish school" (1970) / Ivan Illich
Sexuality and education
Selection from A vindication of the rights of woman (1792) / Mary Wollstonecraft
Seneca Falls declaration (1848) / Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Equal right amendment (1921) / Alice Paul
Title IX (1972) / Congress of the United States
"The absent presence: patriarchy, capitalism, and the nature of teacher work" (1987) / Patti Lather
"A queer youth" (1996) / Paul H. Cottell, Jr
"How and why boys under-achieve" (2000) / Wendy Bradford and Colin Noble
Race, multiculturalism, and education
Laws prohibiting the education of slaves (1830-1832) / General Assembly of the State of North Carolina; General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia; and the General Assembly of Alabama
"Industrial education for the negro" (1903) / Booker T. Washington
"The talented tenth" (1903) / W. E. B. Du Bois
"A talk to teachers" (1963) / James Baldwin
"Education for all handicapped children act" (1975) / Congress of the United States of America
"Border pedagogy in the age of postmodernism" (1988) / Henry Giroux
"Multicultural education and school reform" (2001) / Sonia Nieto
Social class and education
Selection from Pygmalion in the classroom (1968) / Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson
"Social class and the hidden curriculum of work" (1980) / Jean Anyon
"Crossing class boundaries" (2000) / Bell Hooks
Technology and education
Augmenting human intellect (1962) / Douglas Engelbart
"How computers contribute to the ecological crisis" (1990) / C.A. Bowers
"The field: knowledge in computerized societies" (1979) / Jean-Franc̦ois Lyotard.
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