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Critical Issues in Education: Dialogues and Dialectics | 
| Authors: Jack Nelson, Stuart Palonsky, Mary Rose Mccarthy
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Category: Book
Buy Used: $39.00
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 137990
Media: Paperback
Edition: 6
Pages: 528
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0073131369
Dewey Decimal Number: 370.973
EAN: 9780073131368
ASIN: 0073131369
Publication Date: August 4, 2006
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Product Description
"Critical Issues in Education" is designed to be used in courses that examine current, relevant pro and con disputes about schools and schooling. By exploring the major opposing viewpoints on these issues, the text encourages education students to think critically and develop their own viewpoints. The clear writing and dramatic dialectic approach are conducive to dynamic classroom discussions that help students grasp the many sides of these complex issues. Three integrating themes provide a solid framework for examining the eighteen topics covered. Each part begins with a chapter-length introduction that provides background material and organizing themes for the issues that follow. Each issue is then presented from two divergent viewpoints, each one written in advocate language to be as compelling as possible. The book's objective, in addition to informing the reader about the issues, is to develop critical thinking skills within the context of education.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Subjective Evaluation July 3, 2007
Shawn B. Scanlon (Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The arguments are, as stated in 1st review, slanted. They are supposed to be! The book uses a pro vs. con argument format and tries not to judge. Summary is limited to a mild discussion of the importance of the issue. I was required to use it in an education course and actually kept the book. I was looking for an updated version when I stumbled here, although in education as in all things it seems that the more things change the more they stay the same. I think that anyone, and I mean anyone, who intends to use public media to deliver opinions of any sort on education should be required to read the book.
 Outdated, unrealistic and dry. June 26, 2002
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was forced to read and write about the issues presented in this book for a class I was taking. The arguments are slighted and though there is an attempt to present two different views on the same issue, it falls short every time.
Solid January 23, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Excellent multi perspective. Many experienced educational writers and sources consulted in this writing. Lots of supporting facts make it an excellent resource for teachers and administrators.
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