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Education in Edge City - Cases for Reflection and Action (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Education in Edge City - Cases for Reflection and Action (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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"Education in Edge City, Second Edition" is a unique collection of
cases designed to provide preservice teachers with opportunities
for realistic decision making. A hypothetical city, residential
communities, a school district, and school buildings are described.
Within this setting, students, teachers, administrators, parents,
and board members are all introduced and portrayed in varying
detail. Students are asked to step into their shoes to solve their
problems. Professors who have used the first edition attest to the
power of this text to trigger debate and discussion, to cause
students to appreciate the fundamental issues in education, and to
motivate them to use other resources to deepen their understanding
of those issues.
Features:
* A series of cases, all dealing with characters and situations in
the Edge City context, provide students with experience in making
professional decisions and in dealing with the consequences of
those decisions. No textbook can take the place of actual
experience, but the hands-on and "minds-on" exercises in this
casebook will help future teachers see the big picture of what
teaching entails.
* Students have the opportunity to examine issues of classroom
management, assessment, diversity, professionalism, school
governance, and more.
* Each chapter in the book includes a short introduction to a
case, focus questions related to the issues of the case, the case
itself, questions for reflection and discussion about the issues
raised, class and individual projects related to the case,
additional teaching and learning activities which include role play
opportunities and ways to examine the issues in the students' local
school community. There are also suggestions for further reading.
Detailed information on the elements in this book and how they are
organized is contained in the Introduction.
* Following Part I, the topics and organization of the book
parallel those found in many introductions to education and
foundations of education courses: Instruction and Classroom
Management; Issues in Education; and Finance, Organization, and
Governance.
Therefore, the activities provide a natural supplement to the
information provided in those courses. The cases can be used in
conjunction with a class text; they can also be used as the foci
for meaningful discussion during student teaching seminars and/or
teacher in-service.
New in the second edition:
* The text has been thoroughly updated and the format has been
adjusted to make it more informative and useful.
* One new section has been added (Part I: Context).
* Three chapters have been totally rewritten, and four entirely
new chapters have been added to better address issues of diversity;
school finance; curriculum; and community involvement in education.
* The questions and activities in each chapter have been
reorganized to help instructors and students use the book more
effectively.
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