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Ed School: A Brief for Professional Education
Although schools of law, medicine, and business are now highly respected, schools of education and the professionals they produce continue to be held in low regard. In Ed School , Geraldine Jonçich Clifford and James W. Guthrie attribute this phenomenon to issues of academic politics and gender bias as they trace the origins and development of the school of education in the United States.
Drawing on case studies of leading schools of education, the authors offer a bold, controversial agenda for ed schools must reorient themselves toward teachers and away from the quest for prestige in academe; they must also adhere to national professional standards, abandon the undergraduate education major, and reject the Ph.D. in education in favor of the Ed.D.
Drawing on case studies of leading schools of education, the authors offer a bold, controversial agenda for ed schools must reorient themselves toward teachers and away from the quest for prestige in academe; they must also adhere to national professional standards, abandon the undergraduate education major, and reject the Ph.D. in education in favor of the Ed.D.
427 pages, Paperback
Published July 2, 1990
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I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, — and all the worse for the fishes. - Page 75
Appears in 441 books from 1837-2008
... institutions and have neglected their professional allegiances. They are like marginal men, aliens in their own worlds. They have seldom succeeded in satisfying the scholarly norms of their campus letters and science colleagues, and they are simultaneously estranged from their practicing professional peers. The more forcefully they have rowed toward the shores of scholarly research, the more distant they have become from the public schools they are duty bound to serve. Conversely, systematic... - Page 4
Appears in 12 books from 1990-2006
The schools of education must become a real part of the universities and the universities must begin to relate themselves properly and effectively to the work of the schools of education The philosophy of education must be taught by a member of the department of philosophy. - Page 242
Appears in 10 books from 1947-1990
THE HIGH SCHOOL IN A NEW ERA. Edited by Francis S. Chase and Harold A. Anderson. Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 1958. - Page 382
Appears in 45 books from 1880-2004
If law be not a science, a university will best consult its own dignity in declining to teach it. If it be not a science... - Page 74
Appears in 23 books from 1866-2004
... the principal, but an incidental object of the institution; it is not primary, but secondary ; it does not command the entire and undivided attention of the instructors, but shares that attention with the general objects for which the academy was founded; it may fail and the academy still survive. "In Massachusetts, the business of the normal school is to possess the entire and exclusive occupancy of the whole ground; to engross the whole attention of all the instructors and all the pupils; to... - Page 58
Appears in 6 books from 1891-2008
A Report of a Survey of the Needs of California in Higher Education... - Page 259
Appears in 101 books from 1936-2008
I have seen more women and less beauty, heard more voices and less sweetness, perceived more earnestness and less triumph, than I ever supposed possible. - Page 154
Appears in 11 books from 1921-2002
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, — and all the worse for the fishes. - Page 75
Appears in 441 books from 1837-2008
... institutions and have neglected their professional allegiances. They are like marginal men, aliens in their own worlds. They have seldom succeeded in satisfying the scholarly norms of their campus letters and science colleagues, and they are simultaneously estranged from their practicing professional peers. The more forcefully they have rowed toward the shores of scholarly research, the more distant they have become from the public schools they are duty bound to serve. Conversely, systematic... - Page 4
Appears in 12 books from 1990-2006
The schools of education must become a real part of the universities and the universities must begin to relate themselves properly and effectively to the work of the schools of education The philosophy of education must be taught by a member of the department of philosophy. - Page 242
Appears in 10 books from 1947-1990
THE HIGH SCHOOL IN A NEW ERA. Edited by Francis S. Chase and Harold A. Anderson. Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 1958. - Page 382
Appears in 45 books from 1880-2004
If law be not a science, a university will best consult its own dignity in declining to teach it. If it be not a science... - Page 74
Appears in 23 books from 1866-2004
... the principal, but an incidental object of the institution; it is not primary, but secondary ; it does not command the entire and undivided attention of the instructors, but shares that attention with the general objects for which the academy was founded; it may fail and the academy still survive. "In Massachusetts, the business of the normal school is to possess the entire and exclusive occupancy of the whole ground; to engross the whole attention of all the instructors and all the pupils; to... - Page 58
Appears in 6 books from 1891-2008
A Report of a Survey of the Needs of California in Higher Education... - Page 259
Appears in 101 books from 1936-2008
I have seen more women and less beauty, heard more voices and less sweetness, perceived more earnestness and less triumph, than I ever supposed possible. - Page 154
Appears in 11 books from 1921-2002
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