Joel Spring: 26 books
The American School
From the Puritans to the Trump Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This current, comprehensive history of American education is designed to stimulate critical analysis and critical thinking by offering alternative interpretations of each historical period. In his signature straight-forward, concise style, Joel Spring provides a variety of interpretations of American...
Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality
A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Joel Spring’s history of school polices imposed on dominated groups in the United States examines the concept of deculturalization—the use of schools to strip away family languages and cultures and replace them with those of the dominant group. The focus is on the education of dominated groups...
by Joel Spring
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Turning his distinctive analytical lens to the politics of American education, Joel Spring looks at contemporary educational policy issues from theoretical, practical, and historical perspectives. This comprehensive overview documents and explains who influences educational policy and how, bringing...
Wheels in the Head
Educational Philosophies of Authority, Freedom, and Culture from Confucianism to Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
In this popular text Joel Spring provocatively analyzes the ideas of traditional and non-traditional philosophies from Confucianism to human rights regarding the contribution of education to the creation of a democratic society. The goal is to explore how governments use education to control and manage...
Economization of Education
Human Capital, Global Corporations, Skills-Based Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
In this timely, cogent analysis of trends and powerful forces shaping global educational policy today, Joel Spring focuses on how economization is making economic growth and increased productivity the main goals of schools, and the ways these goals are achieved—including measuring educational policies...
Thursday's Bird
Hunting Wild Pheasants in a Vanishing Upland
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
The crisp call of a fall hunting day will always be more inviting after you walk through the uplands hunting with Joel Spring.
by Joel Spring
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2019
Featuring current information and challenging perspectives on the latest issues and forces shaping the American educational system—with scholarship that is often cited as a primary source—Joel Spring introduces readers to the historical, political, social, and legal foundations of education and...
Globalization and Educational Rights
An Intercivilizational Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This is the first book to explore the meaning of equality and freedom of education in a global context and their relationship to the universal right to education. It also proposes evaluating school systems according to their achievement of equality and freedom.
Education in the 21st century...
The Great American Education-Industrial Complex
Ideology, Technology, and Profit
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The Great American Education-Industrial Complex examines the structure and nature of national networks and enterprises that seek to influence public education policy in accord with their own goals and objectives. In the past twenty years, significant changes have taken place in the way various interest...
by Joel Spring
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This book describes the impact of U.S. government civilization and education policies on a Native American family and its tribe from 1763 to 1995. While engaged in a personal quest for his family's roots in Choctaw tribal history, the author discovered a direct relationship between educational policies...
The Intersection of Cultures
Multicultural Education in the United States and the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The Intersection of Cultures: Multicultural Education in the United States and the Global Economy, Fourth Edition offers a unique, problem-solving approach to the complex issues involved in educating culturally and linguistically diverse students. Perfect for any course devoted wholly or in part to...
by Joel Spring
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
As the author takes the reader through the landscape of the Catskills in upstate New York, a picture of hunting in the finest sense, as it ought to be and as it was when you hunted with your Dad and raced alongside your dogs for downed birds.
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