LibGuides: ENGL 1S, Fernandez: History of Education

Overview

Encyclopedia Britannica

The Encyclopedia Britannica gives an amazing and thorough overview of the history of education from prehistoric cultures up to the present time, and Credo Reference has information from many different reference books.

Credo Reference
Credo Reference has information from many different reference books on the history of education

Streaming Video

A History of Education
From the oral tradition to Greek and Roman education to the problems facing today's schools. 53 minutes.
The Socratic Method
2 minutes.
The Common School
"Profiles the passionate crusade launched by Thomas Jefferson ... to create a common system of tax-supported schools that would mix people of different backgrounds and reinforce the bonds of democracy. A wealth of research illustrates how this noble experiment-the foundation of the young republic-was a radical idea opposed from the start by racial prejudice and fears of taxation." [Library Catalog] 55 minutes

Books in the Library about the History of Education

Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Education: A Biographical Introduction by Gerald Lee Gutek
Call Number: LA2301 .G88 2005
ISBN: 013113809X
Publication Date: 2004
"The author takes a global perspective on the history and philosophy of education, capturing the essence of educational evolution through the biographies of 23 theorists, philosophers, and educators." [from the publisher description]
School: The Story of American Public Education by David Tyack, et al, editors
Call Number: LA212 .S353 2001
ISBN: 080704220X
Publication Date: 2001
History, Education, and the Schools by William J. Reese
Call Number: LA212 .R424 2007
ISBN: 1403977445
Publication Date: 2007
The author "explores the rise of public schools in the nineteenth century, the evolution of private school alternatives, and ongoing debates about modern schooling and reform." [from the library catalog]
The Once and Future School: 350 Years of American Secondary Education by Jurgen Herbst
Call Number: LA222 .H386 1996
ISBN: 0415911931
Publication Date: 1996
Parents and Schools: The 150-Year Struggle for Control in American Education by William W. Cutler
Call Number: LC225.3 .C86 2000
ISBN: 0226132161
Publication Date: 2000

Books in the Library about Education Policy

A Measure of Failure: The Political Origins of Standardized Testing by Mark J. Garrison
Call Number: LB3060.3 .G37 2009
ISBN: 9781438427775
Publication Date: 2009
Approaching the issue from a sociohistorical perspective, the author demonstrates the ways standardized testing has been used to serve the interests of the governing class by attaching a value to people based on performance, thus upholding inequality in American society.
No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965-2005 by Patrick J. McGuinn
Call Number: LC89 .M35 2006
ISBN: 0700614427
Publication Date: 2006
"Elementary and secondary schooling has long been the province of state and local governments; but when George W. Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, it signaled an unprecedented expansion of the federal role in public education." [from the publisher description]

Off-Campus Access

For off-campus access to the online databases and eBooks, you'll need your student ID number and portal password. Make sure you are accessing the databases directly from the library website.

eBooks

American Education: A History by Wayne J. Urban; Jennings L. Wagoner
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780415965293
Publication Date: 2009
California in a Time of Excellence: School Reform at the Crossroads of the American Dream by James Andrew LaSpina
ISBN: 9781441607805
Publication Date: 2009
The Death of Progressive Education: How Teachers Lost Control of the Classroom by Roy Lowe
ISBN: 9780203945957
Publication Date: 2007
"The first authoritative survey of the changing politics of the classroom since the Second World War." [from the library catalog]
Education and Learning in America by Catherine Reef
ISBN: 9781438126906
Publication Date: 2009
Gender and Education in China: Gender Discourses and Women's Schooling in the Early Twentieth Century by Bailey
ISBN: 9780203964996
Publication Date: 2006
"Using primary evidence such as official documents, newspapers and memoirs, Paul Bailey analyzes the significance, impact and nature of women's public education in China from its beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century." [from the library catalog]
Handbook to Life in America: The Colonial and Revolutionary Era by Rodney P. Carlisle
ISBN: 9781438126975
Publication Date: 2009
Look at the chapter on education!