Educational Foundations - Theme: Utilizing Foundational Perspectives - Volume 5 - Number 3 - Summer 1991

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Educational Foundations (Volume 5, Number 3, Summer 1991) focuses on utilizing foundational perspectives to illuminate how schools are organized and how children, parents, and communities shape educational practice. The theme includes cooperative learning, child-driven educational systems design, parent-teacher dialogue, pedagogy and community organizing, and analysis of mathematics instruction in the Soviet Union, with an editorial overview supporting interdisciplinary foundations scholarship.

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CategoryResearch & Report

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Pages109

Reading Time4 h 35 min

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Contents

Introduction

Cooperative Learning: Liberatory Praxis or Hamburger Helper

Educational Systems Design by Children for Children

Points of View: Parent-Teacher Talk

Pedagogy, Community Organizing, and American Neopopulism

Educating Mathematicians in the USSR

Editorial Overview

TITLE INSTITUTION SPONS AGENCY REPORT NO PUB DATE NOTE PUB TYPE JOURNAL CIT EDRS PRICE DESCRIPTORS IDENTIFIERS ABSTRACT RC DOCUMENT RESUME Utilizing Foundational Perspectives.American Educational Studies Association.Cincinnati Univ.,Ohio.ISSN-1047-824891109p. Collected Works -Serials(022)--Reports -Descriptive(141)Educational Foundations;v5 n3 Sum 1991 MF01/PC05 Plus Postage. Community Action;Cooperative Learning;EducationalPolicy;E1ementary Education;Elementary SchoolStudents;Foreign Countries;*Foundations ofEducation;Mathematics Instruction;Parent Participation;Parent Teacher Cooperation;StudentRoleUSSR This theme issue of "Educationa1 Foundationscontains five articles that utilize an array of foundationalperspectives that give reader insight into the organization ofschools,the viewpoints of children and parents,the ideological andpolitical nature of community organizing,and mathematics instructionin the Soviet Union.In "Cooperative Learning:Liberatory Praxis orHamburger Helper,"Mara Sapon-Shevin critically examines theincongruities between the as sumptions informing cooperative learningpractices and the institutional norms governing the organization ofs chools,universities,and colleges.Ruthanne Kurth-Schai's"Educalional Systems Design by Children for Children"challengess cholars and researchers in educational foundations to allow childrento influence processes of policy design and evaluation.LorraineHarner and Helen Davis's work,"Points of View:Parent-Teacher Talk,"is a dialogue and "meta-view"authored by a parent and a teacher,whoeach describe their recollections of the parent-teacher conference inwhich they had participated.In his essay,"Pedagogy,CommunityOrganizing,and American Neopopulism,"Stephen Haymes argues inagreement with critical theorists that pedagogy as a form of culturalpolitics involves defining and redefining an ideological map of thecultural territory.Haymes applies this notion to the process ofcommunity organizing to illustrate the"emancipating possibilities"of a "value-based"approach to community organizing.In "EducatingMathematicians in the USSR,"Bever1y J.Ferruci,Richard Evans,and01eg V.Anashkin present their analysis of the mathematics program ofstudy at Simferopo1 University as a "model to emulate."(DB) ★☆☆*☆*☆**☆*****+***k*☆***k☆*☆*+kk***☆**☆*☆*****x*****************六*★***k水Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made* ☆from the original document.* ☆☆*大*☆☆☆**☆***北☆*☆*☆六☆**☆☆☆**☆*☆☆****水☆☆*******☆*☆*大**北☆*☆六*☆*☆六*☆***** U.S.DEPARTMENT OF EDUCA..OHice ol Educatonal Reseaich and Improv.EDucKTIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATIONCENTER (ERIC)This document has bean reproduced a5reCeIVed from the person or orQanizatonoriginating itPonisofyiworooinionstatedinthsdocument do not necessarily represent ofhcialOERI poston or policyIssue Theme:UtilizingFoundationalPerspectives2Volume 5Number 3"PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THISSsummer 1991913019OAesD/EC8S0NSTO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCESbINFORMATION CENTER(ERIC)."A journal of theAmerican Educational Studies,AssociationCfocusing on interdisciplinary aspectsof the educational foundations下BEST COPYAVALABLE 口Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality ieuoieonp D353169 JL Sponsored byPubllshed by CDIC the University of CincinnatiCaddo Gap PressERIC2 Educational Foundations Volume 5,Number 3,Summer 1991 Co-Editors Kathryn M.BormanPatricia O'Reilly Department of Educational Foundations,University of Cincinnati Editorial Board Deborah Britzman,State University of New York at BinghamtonJames Covert,Memorial University of NewfoundlandFrederick Erickson,University of PennsylvaniaJane Gaskell,University of British ColumbiaJames M.Giarelli,Rutgers UniversityBeth Goldstein,University of Kentucky Maxine Greene,Teachers College,Columbia UniversityAlan H.Jones,Caddo fiap Press Faustine C.Jones-Wilson,Howard UniversityVictor N.Kobayashi,University of Hawaii,HonoluluMargaret LeCom

FAQs

What theme does this issue of Educational Foundations emphasize?

The issue centers on “Utilizing Foundational Perspectives,” aiming to provide insight into the organization of schools and related educational viewpoints.

Which topics are covered by the main articles?

The articles address cooperative learning, educational systems design led by children, parent-teacher communication, pedagogy linked to community organizing, and mathematics instruction in the USSR.

Who are the co-editors of Volume 5, Number 3 (Summer 1991)?

The co-editors are Kathryn M. Borman and Patricia O’Reilly.

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