Presents a collection of significant interdisciplinary documents relevant to western traditions of education. This book provides a commentary and an analysis throughout in the form of original essays and head notes. After a brief essay on classical and pre-modern education, it focuses on modern and post modern ideas.

Preface Introduction: Educational Thought in Western Culture PROLOGUE Introduction to Prologue “Orientation” (1934) - George S. Counts “The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World” (1994) - Vaclav Havel 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