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Educating Citizens
for Global Awareness
Edited by Nel Noddings
Prominent educators join Nel
Noddings to address the issue of
global citizenship, what it means,
and how it should shape curriculum
and teaching in K–12 classrooms.
Contributors: Nancy Carlsson-
Paige • David Fairman • Gloria
Ladson-Billings • Linda Lantieri •
Peggy McIntosh • Robert J. Nash •
Nel Noddings • Stacie Nicole Smith
• Stephen J. Thornton
2005/176 pp./PB, $27.95/4534-2
Published in association with the Boston
Research Center for the 21st Century
1999 AESA Critics’ Choice Award
Teaching for
Social Justice
A Democracy and Education
Reader
Edited by William Ayers, Jean Ann
Hunt, and Therese Quinn
Introduction by Maxine Greene
Published in conjunction with The
New Press
“Demonstrates the power of the
‘teacher as activist.’ This sourcebook
offers curriculum ideas and websites
in addition to the time-tested wisdom
of its contributors.”
—Teaching Tolerance
1998/320 pp./PB, $21.95 /
1-56584-420-3
Please note! All orders for Teaching for
Social Justice must be placed with W. W.
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Also by this author:
See Author Index
Justice and Caring
The Search for Common Ground
in Education
Michael S. Katz, Nel Noddings,
and Kenneth A. Strike
These original essays, by renowned
educators, reveal how these two
moral orientations can work
together to produce wiser and
more practical policies and
practices.
1999/208 pp./PB, $26.95/3818-4
Professional Ethics in Education Series
Historical
Studies
“Ethnically Qualified”
Race, Merit, and the Selection of
Urban Teachers, 1920–1980
Christina Collins
”A fascinating historical
case study.”
—Teachers
College Record
This provocative
book explores
the barriers that
African American
and Latino
candidates faced
in attempting to become public
school teachers in New York from
the turn of the century through the
end of the 1970s.
2011/272 pp./PB, $43.95/5163-3
High Expectations
The Cultural Roots of Standards
Reform in American Education
William A. Proefriedt
“Educational thinkers from Jefferson to
Dewey would applaud and admire his
work.” —Choice
Who is to be educated What
knowledge is of most worth How
shall we teach How do students
learn And education toward what
ends The author compares and
contrasts how present reformers
have answered these questions and
how educational thinkers—including
Emerson, Du Bois, and Dewey—
have addressed them.
2008/208 pp./PB, $44.95/4874-9
Advances in Contemporary Educational
Thought Series
Teachers and Machines
The Classroom Use of
Technology Since 1920
Larry Cuban
“Will undoubtedly be cited in the
future as the major source on the history
of technology and teaching in the
classroom.”
—History of Education Quarterly
“Through Cuban’s work we can
develop an understanding for how
teachers define their jobs in ways
that outside innovators have never
appreciated.”
—Educational Policy
1986/144 pp./PB, $19.95/2792-8
Thinking About Education Series
Jonas F. Soltis, Editor
New
Edition
NEW
Speaking directly to today’s teacher, these fifth editions
feature realistic case studies, dialogues, and open-ended
questions that will stimulate thinking and encourage lively
classroom discussions.
The Ethics of Teaching, 5th Edition
Kenneth A. Strike and Jonas F. Soltis
This text has been expanded to include the
most important ethical issues in contemporary
schooling. Topics include: punishment
and due process • intellectual freedom • equal
treatment of students • multiculturalism •
religious differences • democracy • teacher
burnout • and more.
2009/176 pp. / Paper, $20.95/4981-4
Curriculum and Aims,
5th Edition
Decker F. Walker and Jonas F. Soltis,
assisted by Frances Schoonmaker
This revised edition provides a broad
perspective on the basic curriculum
questions educators face regarding
the purposes, content, design, and
structure of educational programs.
The new edition features a new
case study on Education and Equity:
Closing the Achievement Gap.
2009 / 144 pp./Paper, $20.95/4984-5
Best
Seller
“Does a masterful job
of bringing together
the basic issues and
teaching methods that
should frame social
and philosophical
foundations curricula.”
—Educational Theory
Approaches to Teaching, 5th Edition
Gary D Fenstermacher and Jonas F. Soltis,
with contributions from Matthew N. Sanger
This new edition continues using the format of the three approaches—
The Executive, The Facilitator, and The Liberationist—and adds four
new case studies: “Scripted Teaching,” “Accountability and Merit,”
“What Is the Value of Caring Relationships” and “School Funding.”
2009 / 128 pp. / Paper, $20.95 / 4982-1
Perspectives on Learning, 5th Edition
D. C. Phillips and Jonas F. Soltis
This widely adopted text uses case studies that engage readers in
debates about what really happens in classrooms. The new edition
features: a discussion of common sense and learning theories • a new
chapter on Transfer of Learning • consideration of recent developments
in brain science.
2009/144 pp./Paper, $20.95/4983-8
School and Society, 5th Edition
Walter Feinberg and Jonas F. Soltis
The new edition tackles such crucial questions as: Do schools socialize
students to become productive workers • Does schooling reproduce
social class and pass on ethnic and gender biases • Can a teacher
avoid passing on dominant social and cultural values • What besides
subjects do students really learn in schools
2009/160 pp./Paper, $20.95/4985-2
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