Joel H. Spring

"This brief history of the education of dominated cultures in the United States provides needed background for understanding contemporary issues and problems in multicultural education. The dominated groups include Native Americans, Puerto Ricans, Mexican Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans. Well written, original, and affordable, the book can be used in any course devoted wholly or partly to the current debate about multicultural education. Key features include a multicultural perspective that helps students understand the development of U.S. education from the perspective of other cultures; an historical context that helps students understand the reasons for the current concern about multicultural education, and a narrative writing style that requires students to think critically about educational institutions and multicultural education." "New in the Second Edition: A new Chapter 1 discusses the racial and cultural values brought to North America by English colonists and the early plans for the education of Native Americans; an expanded section on Asian Americans in Chapter 5 that discusses how the racial and cultural attitudes of the early English colonists help explain the denial of citizenship to Asian immigrants in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the educational segregation of Asian American children; and a new section in Chapter 5 on the current debate about multicultural education."--Jacket.

This fourth edition focuses on the Republican and Democratic parties in the 2008 national election and post-2008 election era. It also includes updated and new chapters on the Democratic education agenda, and discussions of the Republican education agenda.--[book cover].

Wheels in the Head analyzes the ideas of traditional and nontraditional philosophers from Plato to Paulo Freire regarding the contribution of education to the creation of a democratic society. Each section is organized around an important theme and related issues dealing with the purpose and content of education. - Back cover.

"In this book, Joel Spring examines globalization and its worldwide effects on education. A central thesis is that industrial consumerism is the dominant paradigm in the integration of education and economic planning in modern economic security states. Readership for this book includes scholars and students in comparative, international, and multicultural education; educational policy and politics; historical, social, and philosophical foundations of education; and curriculum studies."--Jacket.

Documents, analyzes, and presents an historical argument to explain how schools, sdvertising, and media have together created a consumerist ideology that is central in American life and the driving force of the global ecomomy. --Publisher.