Product Description: The purpose, value, and significance of the arts are perennial topics, often generating rather heated discussions. In the modern era, a philosophical perspective took hold in accord with the idea that art was separated from daily life, as well as from larger social contexts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Such was the praise for the first edition of The Curriculum. Now Landon E. Beyer and Michael W. Apple join together with other notable contributors in this new edition to examine a range of issues, ideas, and practices connected to the development, evaluation, and effects of curriculum ideas and practices...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this first volume in the Practitioner Inquiry Series, seven teachers analyse their own efforts to integrate social, moral and political questions and issues into the public school classroom. Both new and veteran teachers develop their own narratives on experience, revealing the successes and failures, rewards and frustrations, that are involved in pursuing democratic forms of classroom life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The authors analyse the disparate views put forward in debates concerning both public school and university curricula, multiculturalism, the canon, and the aims of education. They also address the educational proposals and social, political, cultural and economic perspectives advanced by members of the new right, modern liberals, radicals and postmodernists...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Softcover, Teachers College Press, 150 pages, bibliography, index. Examines the nature of educational studies as a liberal rather than technical area of study. The balance between liberal and educational studies and organizations like the Holmes Group and the Carnegie Forum.

Product Description: A reconstructed approach to teacher preparation emerges in this work. Beyer argues for the study of education as a liberating academic field of inquiry that is also concerned with practice and suggests that the split between liberal and applied education is not tenable.