Essentials of American Education - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205349862 ISBN 13: 9780205349869

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 2002

Synopsis

This new book offers solid coverage of the most relevant introduction to teaching and foundations topics in education today. This new book provides a broad introduction to teaching and foundations based on interesting, current discussion of important theory and practice. It offers a thorough overview of the teaching profession, standards, assessment and the historical, social and philosophical aspects of American Education. preservice and new teachers.

About this title

About the Author:

Janet W. Lerner is professor emeritus at Northeastern Illinois University, where she served as professor and chairperson of the Department of Special Education. She received the J. E. Wallace Wallin Special Education Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Exceptional Children, and was awarded the Romaine P. Mackie Award from the Pioneers Division of CEC. Dr. Lerner served as a general education teacher, a special education teacher, and a reading specialist at the elementary, middle school, and high school levels. She has taught at several colleges and universities in the fields of learning disabilities, reading instruction, and special education. She served as co-editor of Learning Disabilities: An Interdisciplinary Journal, a publication of the Learning Disabilities Association of America. Dr. Lerner has authored and co-authored numerous journal articles and books, including LEARNING DISABILITIES AND RELATED DISABILITIES: STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS (2014, Cengage Learning) and READING PROBLEMS: DIAGNOSIS AND TEACHING STRATEGIES (2010). Dr. Lerner is currently an adjunct professor in the PACE program at National Louis University.

JAMES A. JOHNSON is a Professor and Chairman of Health Administration and Policy at the Medical University of South Carolina and Associate Professor of Family Medicine and founding editor of the "Carolina Health Services Review". He is the author of three books on health care issues, a consultant to hospitals, and lectures to health professionals around the country.

Gene E. Hall currently is a Professor of Urban Leadership at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has had a career-long involvement with the development of programs and national accreditation of teacher education. He began his career as the science methods instructor and faculty team member for the experimental Personalized Teacher Education Program (PTEP) at the national R&D Center for Teacher Education, The University of Texas at Austin. Subsequently he was a faculty member at the University of Florida and the University of Northern Colorado. He has twice been the dean of a college of education. He also has had career-long involvement with studies of the change process and development of tools and applications of the Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM). He is coauthor of "Implementing Change: Patterns, Principles and Potholes ("4th" "edition"), " and "The Foundations of Education ("16th edition")."

Donna M. Gollnickis the Chief Academic Officer of TEACH-NOW, an online teacher education program in Washington, DC. She is co-author with Philip Chinn of "Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society, " which is in its 10th edition and co-author of the textbook "Introduction to the Foundations of American Education, " in its 17th edition. Dr. Gollnick is a past president of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME). She has been recognized by the School of Family and Consumer Sciences at Purdue University and the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California as a Distinguished Alumni Award. AACTE honored her as an Advocate for Justice in 1998.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0205349862
• ISBN 13: 9780205349869
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Johnson James A., Dupuis Victor L., Musial Diann, Hall Gene E., Gollnick Donna M.