Continuum Foundations of Education: Problems and Possibilities in American Education

This is a fully integrated and interdisciplinary textbook introducing students to the key issues in American education, and applying historical, philosophical, and sociological approaches throughout. "Foundations of Education" is organized around the major problems facing contemporary American education. It offers a thorough, scholarly treatment of these problems from historical, philosophical, and sociological perspectives, bringing together relevant findings from those disciplines to analyze and illuminate a wide range of issues. Each chapter focuses on a core topic (including race, gender, equal opportunities, and school governance) to give students a solid overview, providing intellectually sound material that offers real depth and challenges students to think creatively. Packed with exercises, discussion questions, international case studies for comparative purposes and supported by a fully up-to-date companion website, this is a text that responds to current developments, changes, and trends in teacher education. "Foundations of Education" will prepare a new generation of educators for a globalized and technology-driven society that needs to be aware of its best educational traditions, its current problems and its future possibilities. About the Author Samuel M. Craver is Professor Emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the co-author, with Howard Ozmon, of Philosophical Foundations of Education, 8th Edition (Prentice Hall, 2007). Maike Ingrid Philipsen is Professor in Foundations of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has taught social foundations courses at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels since 1993. She is the author of Challenges of the Faculty Career for Women (Jossey Bass, 2008).