Eugene Provenzo, a nationally recognized scholar in the social and cultural foundations of education, has edited this collection of significant readings relevant to western traditions of education. Focusing on modern and postmodern ideas, Critical Issues in Education: An Anthology of Readings includes selections from scholars of education ranging from John Dewey and William James to important contemporary writers such as bell hooks, Sonia Nieto, and Henry Giroux.

Key Features:

• Provides strong introductory materials: The editor has developed this as a course text and therefore provides original contributions to contextualize and shape the selections into a meaningful whole. He offers commentary and analysis throughout in the form of original essays, head notes, and questions that help students engage with the anthologized readings.
• Follows a comprehensive development of themes: A compilation of many of the most significant readings about education in the west, the book is organized into seven thematic units--The Aims of Education; Society and Education; Compulsory Education and the Transmission of Culture; Sexuality and Education; Race; Multiculturalism, and Education; Social Class and Education; and Technology and Education.
• Stimulates critical thinking: The editor includes readings that are important, provocative, and inherently interesting, and that encourage readers to critically reflect on the meaning of education and schooling in American culture. In addition, discussion questions for each of the eight thematic units facilitate classroom discussion.

Intended Audience: This is an ideal supplementary text for undergraduate and graduate courses on the foundations of education such as Foundations of Education; Historical Foundations of Education; Philosophical Foundations of Education; and Issues in Education. It will also be a welcome addition to individual scholars' bookshelves.

PART I. THE AIMS OF EDUCATION

Introduction to Part I
"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

PART II. SOCIETY AND EDUCATION

Introduction to Part II
Selection from Notes on the State of Virginia (1781) Thomas Jefferson
On 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

PART III. COMPULSORY SCHOOLING, EDUCATION, AND THE TRANSMISSION OF CULTURE

Introduction to Part IIII
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
Selection from Deschooling Society (1970) Ivan Illich

PART IV. SEXUALITY AND EDUCATION

Introduction to Part IV
Selection from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) Mary Wollstonecraft
The 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, Colin Noble, and Ted Wragg

PART V. RACE, MULTICULTURALISM, AND EDUCATION

Introduction to Part V
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" (1975) Congress of the United States of America
"Border Pedagogy in the Age of Postmodernism" (1988) Henry Giroux

PART VI. SOCIAL CLASS AND EDUCATION

Introduction to Part VI
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

PART VII. TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION

Introduction to Part VII
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-François Lyotard