Those who can, teach / Kevin Ryan, James M. Cooper.

Content

I Self and Career
1. Why Teach?
Sources of useful Experience
Some concluding Thoughts

2. What are your Job options in Education
Will there be Job opening in Education?
What are Teachers paid?
How do you obtain a Teaching Position?
etc

II. Foundations
3. What are the Philosophical Foundations of American Education?
What is Philosophy?
The Terrain of Philosophy
Schools of Philosophy
Your Philosophy of Education

4. What is the history of American Education?
Themes in American Education
Elementary education
Secondary Education
Private Education
Teacher Education
Education of Minorities
A final World

III. Schools : The Present
5. What is a school
Education and Schooling
Discovering the Purposes of School
Models of Schools
The transmission of Culture
etc

6. What is Taught?
Where Does the Existing Curriculum Come From?
What is the Present Curriculum
Additional Influences on Curriculum
etc

7. What is Life in School like?
The School as an Environment
The School as an Agent of Socialization
Studies of life in Elementary Schools
Studies of Life in High Schools
etc.


IV. The Social and Political Context
8. What are the Social Issues that affect American Education ?
Social Problems affecting the young
Tension Points in American Education
A final Word


9. How are Schools Governed, controlled and Financed?
How Governance Differs from Control
Who Legally Governs public Education
Who Controls American Public Education?
How are Schools Financed?

10. What are the Ethical and legal Issues Facing Teachers
The Ethics of Teaching
The Teacher and the Law
Students and the Law
A final word

V. Teachers
11. What can the New Teacher Expect?
The School Milieu: The Shock of the Familiar
Administrators: Mixed Bag and many hats
Peer: A mixed Blessing
Instruction :So to Learn
etc.

12. What makes a Teacher Effective?
What attitudes does the effective teacher possess?
What subject-matter knowledge does the Effective teacher need/
What theoretical Knowledge does effective teacher need?
etc

13. Is a Teacher a Professional?
The Teacher and Power
What is a Profession
Two Sides of the Issue
Professionalism and Continuing Education
etc.

Vi. Schools : The Future
14. How can we Improve the quality of education?
Redesign of the Teaching Career
A new Structure for Schooling
New Learning for new schools
A final word.

Includes bibliographies and index.