Students write a comprehensive paper on one of the books

Required Texts
Gutek, G. L. (2005). Historical and philosophical foundations of education: A
biographical introduction (Latest edition). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
 
Cahn. S. M. (1997). Classic and contemporary readings in the philosophy of
education. New York: McGraw Hill. (Latest edition)
 
If you would like a short introduction to some of the basic ideas explored in the
history of Western philosophy that will provide good background for the course, try:
Nicholas Fearn (2001). Zeno and the Tortoise: How to Think like a Philosopher. New
York: Grove Press. 
 
If you would like a short introduction to the history of Western civilization,
written for pre-teen and teen children but very enjoyable for adults as well, try:
E. H. Gombrich, (2005). A Little History of the World, trans. Caroline Mustill. New
Haven: Yale University Press.
 
Gombrich was one of the greatest art historians of the 20thcentury. The book should
be very useful for your pre-teen and teenage students as well as for yourselves. 
 
Three other texts from which articles may be used are: Schuman. American Schools,
American teachers.
 
Philosophers on education: New historical perspectives, Ed. Amelie Oksenberg Rorty,
NY: Routledge, 1998.
?Philosophical Documents in Education, Third Edition, Ed. T. W. Johnson and R.F.
Reed, NY: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2008.
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Texts for Final Paper
 
Alridge, D.P. (2008). W.E.B. Du Bois: An Intellectual History. NY: Teachers College
Press.
 
Boyd, W.L., Kerchner, C.T., & Blyth, M. (eds.) (2008). The Transformation of Great
American School Districts: How Big Cities Are Reshaping Public Education. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard Education Press.
 
Cunningham, H. (2005). Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500. NY:
Pearson.
 
Heywood, C. (2001). A History of Childhood: Children and Childhood in the West from
Medieval to Modern Times. Malden, MA: Polity Press.
 
Mintz, S. (2004). Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood. Cambridge, MA:
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
 
Orme, N. (2006). Medieval Schools: From Roman Britain to Renaissance England. New
Haven: Yale University Press.
 
Ornstein, A. (2007). Class Counts: Education Inequality, and the Shrinking Middle
Class. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
 
Pangle, L.S. & Pangle, T.L. (1993). The Learning of Liberty: The Educational Ideas
of the American Founders. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.
 
Payne, C.M. (2008). So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in
Urban Schools. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
 
Spring, J. (2004). Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality: A Brief History
of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States, fourth edition. NY:
McGraw-Hill, 2004. 
 
Spring, J. (2005). Conflict of Interest: The Politics of American Education, fifth
edition. NY: McGraw-Hill.
 
Suarez-Orozco, C., Suarez-Orozco, M.M. & Todorova, I. (2008). Learning A New Land:
Immigrant Students in American Society. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press.
 
Tyack, D. (2003). Seeking Common Ground: Public Schools in a Diverse Society.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 
 
Recommended Readings
A History of Childhood, by Colin Heywood, Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2001.
 
An Introduction to Moral Philosophy and Moral Education, by Robin Barrow,
NY:Routledge, 2007.
 
An Introduction to Philosophy of Education, 4th edition, by R. Barrow and R. Woods.
New York: Routledge, 2006.
 
Aristotle on the Necessity of Public Education, by Randall R. Curren, Lanham, MD:
Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
 
Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500, second edition,
by H. Cunningham, New York: Pearson Education, 2005.
 
Children at Play: An American History, by Howard P. Cchudacoff, NY: NYU Press, 2007.
 
Conflict of Interests: The Politics of American Education, fifth edition, by Joel
Spring, Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
 
Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality: A Brief History of the Education of
Dominated Cultures in the United States, fourth edition, by Joel Spring, Boston:
McGraw-Hill, 2004.
 
Educational Theory as Theory of Conduct: From Aristotle to Dewey, by J.J. Chambliss,
Albany: SUNY Press, 1987.
 
Educative Democracy: John Stuart Mill on Education in Society, by F.W. Garforth, NY:
Oxford University Press, 1980.
 
Ethical Visions of Education: Philosophies in Practice, ed. David T. Hansen, NY:
Teachers College Press, 2007.
 
From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest, by T.Z. Lavine, NY: Bantam Books,
1984 (an outstanding and very readable overview of the history of Western
philosophy).
 
Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood, by Steven Mintz, Cambridge, MA: The
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.
 
Locke’s Education for Liberty, by Nathan Tarcov, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 1999
[1984].
 
Making Sense of Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Theory of Education
and Teaching, by David Carr, NY: RoutledgeFalmer, 2003.
 
Medieval Children, by Nicholas Orme, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
 
Medieval Schools: From Roman Britain to Renaissance England, by Nicholas Orme, New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
 
Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey, by Roger Scruton, NY: Allen Lane The
Penguin Press, 1995.
 
Moral Education: Beyond the Teaching of Right and Wrong, by Colin Wringe,
Netherlands: Springer, 2007.
 
Perspectives on Learning, 4th edition, by D.C. Phillips and Jonas F. Soltis, NY:
Teachers College Press, 2004.
 
Philosophers on Education: New Historical Perspectives, ed. Amelie Oksenberg Rorty,
NY: Routledge, 1998.
 
Philosophic Conflicts in American Education, 1893-2000, by Joseph Watras, Boston:
Pearson, 2004.
 
Philosophy of Education in Historical Perspective, 2nd edition, by Adrian M. Dupuis
and Robin L. Gordon, University Press of America, 1997.
 
Pocket Guide to APA style, by R. Perrin, Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
 
Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction, by Roberet Wokler, NY: Oxford University Press,
2001 (a very short book with a very short but excellent section on Rousseau’s
philosophy of education).
 
School and Society, 4th edition, by Walter Feinberg and Jonas F. Soltis, NY:
Teachers College Press, 2004.
 
The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, by
Anthony Gottlieb, NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 2000.
 
Visions of Childhood: Influential Models from Locke to Spock, revised edition, by
John Cleverley and D.C. Phillips, NY: Teachers College Press, 1986.
 
Recommended References
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Education, ed. N. Blake, P. Smeyers, R.
Smith, and P. Standish. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, Ltd., 2003.
 
Philosophy of Education: An Anthology, ed. R. Curren. Malden, MA: Blackwell
Publishers, 2007.
 
Online Resources
· See our EdSE600 website:http://sites.google.com/site/touroresources600/
· See our website for our Graduate Education & Special Education Programs:
<lehrerx.webhop.org>.
· Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/
· PES (Philosophy of Education Society, North America)
· PESA (Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia)
· PESGB (Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain)
· INPE (International Network of Philosophers of Education)
· UNESCO/International Bureau of Education: Thinkers on Education
· Education World: www.educationworld.com
· Teacher Portfolio & Writing Your Own Philosophy of Education:
http://www.edulink.org/portfolio
· History of Education in the U.S.:
http://wps.ablongman.com/wps/mediaobjects/237/243432/timeline/timeline.htm
 
Special Education
http://www.napcse.org/
 
http://www.geocities.com/athens/4611/
 
Bilingual Parent Communication Tools
 
http://casanotes.4teachers.org/
 
Education Law and Advocacy
 
http://www.childrennow.org/issues/education
 
http://www.asbj.com/schoollawarchive/
 
School Choice
 
http://www.home-school.com/
 
http://www.cdch.org/charter-school/
 
http://www.nysut.org/newyorkteacher/2005-2006/060608unionaction.htm
 
Philosophy: The Aims of Education
 
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/PES-Yearbook/95_docs/suppes.html
 
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/PES-Yearbook/95_docs/noddings.html
 
Classic Philosophies:
 
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=4818715
 
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
 
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=4818715
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Final Paper 
 
1. Students write a comprehensive paper on one of the books listed above under Texts
for Final Papers. 
 
The final paper should follow APA guidelines and should be approximately 12 pages
(approximately 3600 words) in length. 
 
To organize your paper, use the following subheadings:
 
Introduction
Major Ideas
Elaboration and Analysis (including what you agree with, disagree with, and why)
Implications for Today’s Teachers
Conclusion
 
*Make frequent references to specific passages in the text, citing specific passages
that support the points you wish to make and conclusions that you draw. Generalized
discussion without specific citations and references is not acceptable. You may cite
other references as long as you are clearly demonstrating your familiarity with the
text and you ability to apply it for discussion and analysis.
 
OR
 
2. Discuss the following selections from the Cahn volume in the order presented here:
 
1. What Is Teaching? by Paul Hirst
2. Democratic Education by Amy Gutmann
3. Moral Education and the Democratic Ideal by Israel Scheffler
4. Caring by Nel Noddings
5. The Philosophy of Childhood by Gareth B. Matthews
6. The Passion of Pluralism by Maxine Greene
7. Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
8. What does Dewey regard as critical for experience to be educationally
constructive and productive? Traditionalist and Their Challengers by John R. Searle
 
Create an Introduction to the paper as a whole and have a Conclusion for the paper
as a whole. For discussion of each reading, include subheadings for Major Ideas,
Elaboration and Analysis (including what you agree with, disagree with and why), and
Implications for Today’s Educators and Teachers.