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Song, Ruiting; Spradlin, Terry E.; Plucker, Jonathan A. – Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University, 2009
For a great portion of the history of the American education system, multiage education was the norm in one-room schoolhouses throughout the nation. The current graded, curriculum-centered approach in the U.S. appeared during the mid-nineteenth century with the rapid economic development and massive immigration into the country. Concurrently, some…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Mixed Age Grouping, Teaching Methods, Accountability
Segall, William E.; Wilson, Anna V. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004
"Teaching in a Diverse Society. Second Edition" is written for students beginning their study in education. As the school population increasingly reflects the diversity of America's population, many prospective teachers, typically from the middle classes, will be unprepared for the diverse classrooms they will inevitably encounter. This…
Descriptors: Educational History, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Diversity, Cultural Pluralism
Nichols, Shannon; Parsons, Jim – Online Submission, 2010
In the face of the century-old call for democracy in education by John Dewey, this paper explores how and why teachers have been systemically removed from efficacy within the educational system in which they live and work. The paper examines historical trends that work to limit teachers' institutional power and become obstacles to teacher voice.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Responsibility, Professional Autonomy, Teaching Methods
Smith, Gregory A.; Sobel, David – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010
Place- and community-based education--an approach to teaching and learning that starts with the local--addresses two critical gaps in the experience of many children now growing up in the United States: contact with the natural world and contact with community. It offers a way to extend young people's attention beyond the classroom to the world as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teaching Methods, Place Based Education, School Community Relationship
Burch, Kerry – Philosophical Studies in Education, 2009
This essay explores the ways in which the ancient Greek concept of parrhesia, defined as "frank speech and telling the truth as one sees it," can help facilitate the development of both intellectual courage and democracy as a way of life. It theorizes dimensions of parrhesia for the purpose of better educating a civic self-image rooted…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Federal Legislation, Democracy, Foreign Countries