Your Introduction to Education: Explorations in Teaching

by Sara Davis Powell

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Genres: Education, Textbooks

432 pages, Unbound

First published January 11, 2011

Reviews

[Vanessa]

I read this whole textbook for class, so you can bet your ass it’s going towards my reading goal.

[Joy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Six chapters of this book was included in the custom textbook for my foundations of education masters class.

Overall, I found the information to be well presented. The headings are color coded which really helps when dissecting the text (trust me, at masters level, you do so much reading that you have to learn to skim very well and the better the text features, the better your skimming). There are also nice charts and graphs that enhance the text content.

The only section I had a problem with was the "Schools" chapter. The author has a very obvious bias toward traditional public schools and it interferes with the information presented. The author also needs to check her facts on school choice. She insinuates that private schools involved in school choice can pick and choose what students they take. Had she done her research, she would have found that in Milwaukee School Choice (one of the oldest and most successful school choice systems), this is not true at all and that students also have the right to opt out of religious instruction. If this is not true in another system, it would have been better to specify the specific source of this information.

The other chapters are fine, therefore, I gave the book (what I read of it) three stars.

I did not use the quizzes at the beginning and end of the chapters but I would totally use them in class with undergrads (even if you don't have this text as the text you are using).

[Yasmeen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very googd and consise for those wanting to be teachers. Covers all the basics and everything you need to know.

[Jennifer Margeson]

I found this textbook more helpful than the other we used in my Democracy in Education course - the online features were especially beneficial