Full Description
It's All About Learning: The Struggle in Choosing Traditional Public Education or Privatization is a reckoning with the contemporary struggle over choice about learning in public education. The future for learning depends on choice aligned with one of two major perspectives: traditional public education or privatization education. The profound implications of this struggle are too important to focus on gadgets, technology, and adult-centric intentions, also known as "chasing rabbits." Instead, this book examines the purpose, intentions, and consequences of the perspectives battling for control of learning and teaching.
When this conflict is resolved, a choice for learning will emerge: how to think or what-to-think. Who will write the narrative for the history of the future of US public education that best serves all students and the democracy in which they live? A reckoning with the struggle over choice about learning is past due. This book makes it clear that the time has come for traditional public educators to bypass the marketplace of privatization education and prioritize student-centric learning in traditional US public education.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter 1. Toward the Purpose of US Public Education
Chapter 2. Which Road for Public Education?
Chapter 3. Arbiters of Choice: Form vs. Function
Chapter 4. Arbiters of Choice: Accountability to vs. Accountability for
Chapter 5. Arbiters of Choice: Responsibility Given vs. Responsibility Accepted
Chapter 6. Arbiters of Choice: Burden vs. Obligation
Chapter 7. Public Education: Submerged and Attenuated
Chapter 8. Public Dissonance or Public Things?
Chapter 9. What Could Be More Simple Than Educational Choice?
Chapter 10. Choosing Disdain, Engineering Decline
Chapter 12. A Resource and a Professional Capability: Dynamic Instruction
Chapter 13. A Future for Learning
Epilogue
References
Index
About the Author
