Culture & Schooling
PowerPoint lectures originally designed for a 300-level course required of all teachers in the ASU teacher education program. Presented to 250–300 students weekly with breakout discussion sections. All presentations include speaker notes and look best downloaded.
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LECTURE 1: Introduction to SPF 301
The first lecture describes the course aims: “What we are going to do in this class is to read, think and study a set of complex and important MACRO relationships. Macro means big and we…
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LECTURE 2: Ethnography For Teachers
The issue for teachers is how to learn about the culture of their students and use this information to become more effective teachers. There is a major movement in education to redefine and broaden the…
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LECTURE 3: Definitions
The word diversity has come to be a code word in America meaning racial diversity. Moreover, we seem to think that race/ethnicity is the largest and most important axis of diversity that affects schooling, teaching…
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LECTURE 4: Common Schools to Best System
This chapter is an overview of the history of Education in the U.S. during the 1800’s. There was a widespread belief that common schooling was essential for democracy to avoid the social classes that marked…
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LECTURE 5: One Best System
The common school was a hodgepodge of one-room or urban schools, controlled by local school boards with a large number of democratically elected members and funded by irregular patterns of taxes, charitable contributions and lottery….
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LECTURE 6: Rock And a Hard Place
While American education grew and developed rapidly up till World War One, the next three decades were a different story. The One best system had been generally completed by 1910 and education began to stagnate…
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LECTURE 7: Sorting Machine
In this lecture I present some of the critical developments leading to the situation today. These were the cultural changes and developments that affected my education and probably the school experiences of most of your…
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