The skeptical visionary : a Seymour Sarason education reader
Seymour Sarason, in the words of Carl Glickman, is "one of America's seminal thinkers about public education." For over four decades his has been a voice of much-needed skepticism about our plans for school reform, teacher training, and educational psychology. Now, for the first time, Sarason's essential writings on these and other issues are collected together, offering student and researcher alike with the range, depth, and originality of Sarason's contributions to American thinking on schooling
xii, 296 pages ; 26 cm
9781566399791, 9781566399807, 1566399793, 1566399807
49355605
Editor's Note and AcknowledgmentsEditor's Introduction: Seymour Sarason: Sculptor of IdeasPart I: The Teacher1. Powerlessness Unanticipated2. You Know More Than You Think and More Than They Give You Credit For3. Why Teachers Must Also Be Psychologists4. Teaching as a Lonely Profession5. Power Relationships in the Classroom6. Constitutional Issues in the Classroom7. The "Nonreading" ProfessionalPart II: The School8. The School Culture and Processes of Change9. Underestimating Complexity10. Programmatic and Behavioral Regularities11. Confronting Intractability12. Conceptualizing the Educational System13. Predictable Features and Problems in the Creation of Charter Schools and Other New Organizational SettingsPart III: Students and Parents14. Themes from Childhood and Adolescence15. Columbine High School and Contexts of Productive Learning16. An Overarching Goal for Students17. Students as Teachers18. Parental Involvement and Power Struggles: Applying the Political Principle to Relationships Within the School and Beyond19. The Governors: Teachers and ParentsPart IV: The Political and Policy Agenda20. The Non-Learning, Non-Self-Correcting System21. Are Schools Unique Organizations?22. Our Expectations of Political Leaders23. America's Only Serious Education President24. What Should We Do?Part V: Tables of Contents from Sarason's Books on EducationEducational Reform: A Self-Scrutinizing MemoirQuestions You Should Ask About Charter Schools and VouchersAmerican Psychology and SchoolsTeaching as a Performing ArtCharter Schools: Another Flawed Educational Reform?Crossing Boundaries: Collaboration, Coordination, and the Redefinition of ResourcesPolitical Leadership and Educational FailureHow Schools Might Be Governed and WhyBarometers of Change: Individual, Educational, and Social TransformationRevisiting "The Culture of the School and the Problem of Change"Parental Involvement and the Political PrincipleSchool Change: The Personal Development of a Point of ViewPsychoanalysis, General Custer and the Verdicts of History and Other Essays on Psychology in the Social SceneLetters to a Serious Education PresidentYou Are Thinking of Teaching? Opportunities, Problems, RealitiesThe Care for Change: Rethinking the Preparation of EducatorsThe Predictable Failure of Educational ReformThe Challenge of Art to PsychologyThe Making of an American Psychologist: An AutobiographySchooling in America: Scapegoat and SalvationEducational Handicap, Public Policy, and Social History: A Broadened Perspective on Mental RetardationWork, Aging, and Social Change: Professionals and the One Life-One Career ImperativeThe Creation of Settings and the Future SocietiesThe Culture o f the School and the Problem of ChangeThe Psycho-Educational Clinic: Papers and Research StudiesThe Preparation of Teachers: A n Unstudied Problem in EducationAnxiety in Elementary School Children: A Report of Research