A 2018 AESA Critics' Choice Award Winner
A 2019 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner
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How is it*, this text asks, that given such good intentions among
education professionals, things in schools can go so very wrong?
The problem, Hinchey and Konkol posit, is that unspoken and misleading
assumptions result in choices, decisions and policies with disastrous
consequences for kids. They tease out those assumptions on the key
issues of school goals, curriculum, education for citizenship,
discipline, and school reform, inviting readers to think again, to
question the taken-for-granted, in the hope of better aligning
intentions and outcomes.
This book is the perfect text for both undergraduate and graduate
classrooms devoted to the study of public education. Questions at the
end of each chapter point to ways for preservice and inservice teachers,
as well as administrators and other education personnel, to advance
their thinking about choices in their own contexts. In addition,
suggested readings, websites and videos offer more food for thought.
Perfect for coursessuch as: Social Foundations of Education,
Political and Social Foundations of Education, Foundations of American
Education, Policy Issues in American Education, Political Issues in
American Education, Educational Policy Studies, Foundations of
Education, Foundations of Education Policy, Intro to Curriculum
Issues/Policy, American Education Policy and Reform, Introduction to
American Education, Introduction to Education Theory and Policy,
Contemporary Issues in American Education.
