Flashpoints: A Guide to Fearlessly Exploring Educational Foundations
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 150
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The FLASHPOINTS handbook facilitates bold and highly interactive investigation of critical education concepts. By emphasizing the precise moments (i.e., flashpoints) when theoretical, political, and ideological abstractions crash into the lives of real people, the text infuses the target concepts with meaning and consequence.
Though more narrowly focused, the handbook covers many core topics typically found in introductory and foundational education/teacher preparation coursework. Furthermore, like educational foundations themselves, the concepts are interdisciplinary, spanning educational sociology, psychology, history, economics, philosophy, and politics.
Introduction
Topic 1 Identity Crisis: The Ambiguous Role of Modern American School
Topic 2 Anatomy of a Great Teacher
Topic 3 A School by Any Other Name: Identifying and Evaluating Public Charter, Private/Parochial, Vocational, and Magnet Schools
Topic 4 The Minority Majority: Embracing the Changing Face of America and Its Schools
Topic 5 Revisiting Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Applications to Contemporary Schools
Topic 6 Surviving the Culture Wars: Twenty-One Controversial Education Conflicts Explored
Topic 7 A Diversity of Perspectives: Common Attitudinal Differences among Urban Students of Color and Suburban White Students
Topic 8 The Achievement Gap and Social Reproduction: Same Old Same Old?
Topic 9 Social and Cultural Capital: How Wealth and Class Impart Societal and Educational Advantages
Topic 10 Teaching, Schools, and Gender: Challenges and Opportunities
Topic 11 Show Me the Money! Does More Funding Really Equal Better Schools?
Topic 12 The Effects of Segregated Schools on Student Experiences and Achievement
Topic 13 Implicit Bias and Cultural Discontinuity in Schools: Awareness and Action
Topic 14 Embracing Intellectual Difference: A Special Education Primer
Topic 15 Responses to Linguistic Diversity: Bilingual Education, ESL, and Immersion
Topic 16 The Hidden Curriculum: What You Can't See Can Hurt You
Topic 17 How Smart People Evaluate Schools: Adopting a Value-Added Lens
Topic 18 Perspectives on Teachers' Unions: Some Pros and Cons
Topic 19 Say What? Freedom of Speech and Religion in Public Schools - a Legal Overview
Topic 20 No Easy Answers: Ten Moral and Ethical Teacher Dilemmas
Topic 21 Avoiding the Teacher Savior Complex: Setting Ambitiously Realistic Expectations for Novice Teachers
Conclusion
Dr. Erik E. Morales is a professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Literacy at New Jersey City University in Jersey City, N.J. He teaches an array of educational foundations, research, and methods courses. He began his career teaching high school and middle school English/language arts in New York City and New Jersey.
He received his B.S. in English and his Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration and Policy Analysis from New York University, as well as his M.Ed. in Education Administration from William Paterson University. He has published four books and more than fifteen research articles in scholarly journals, mostly focused on the psycho/social concepts underpinning academic resilience- the process and outcomes associated with the statistically unlikely academic success of at-risk students.
He can be reached for comments, questions, and requests at emorales2@njcu.edu.