"Kaleidoscope: Readings in Education"

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This paper explains that, in "Part One: Teachers" as the educational system continues to come under increasing amounts of scrutiny, the teacher is ultimately at the fulcrum of pressure. The author points that, in "Part Four: Curriculum", the curriculum essentially is the content that is considered worth learning; but, educators are unresolved over the question of what is worth knowing when knowledge is changing at an exponential rate. The paper relates, in "Part Six: Foundations of Education", that pedagogy, and not methodology, is the term used in discussing the habits and patterns a school uses in order to pursue its goals of replacing ignorance with intelligence in the students' lives.

Table of Contents
Part One: Teachers
Part Two: Students
Part Four: Curriculum
Part Five: Instruction
Part Six: Foundations of Education
Part Seven: Miscellaneous

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"In light of the increased levels of demands placed on teachers and the continuing decline of academic performance, it is no wonder that today's teacher is suffering from a loss of self-esteem. Teachers are considered important and valuable for the work they do, but their work is done in relative obscurity. According to Chall, in her piece "Restoring Dignity and Self-Worth to teachers" society values the product of an effective teacher, a well-educated child, but does not value the teacher enough to pay him or her well. This has been the approach of the American education institutions since the time of de Tocqueville."

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