Here's a reading list for a course on the history and philosophy of education in the United States that I have taught at Teachers College and at Sunbridge. Different institutions, same course.
I believe anyone wanting to teach in any school--public, private, Waldorf, Montessori, you name it--in the U.S. should have some foundation in the history and philosophy of education in the U.S. I hope you agree.
Cremin, L. (1977) Traditions of American Education. New York: Basic Books.
Sloan, D. “Introduction [Part II].” [pp. 20-48] In The Great Awakening and American Education.
Edwards, J. (1746/1989) “Selection from ‘A Treatise Concerning Religious Affection.’ ” [pp. 71-88] In The American Intellectual Tradition, vol. 1, 2nd ed. Hollinger, D. and C. Capper, eds. New York: Oxford University Press.
Kaestle, C. (1983) “Prologue: The Founding Fathers and Education.” [pp. 3-13] In Pillars of the Republic. New York: Hill and Wang.
Lemisch, L. (1961). Selection from Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings. [pp. 92-104] New York: Penguin Books.
Jefferson, T. (1973) “Thomas Jefferson’s Bill for the Diffusion of Knowledge.” [pp. 230-239] In Smith, W., ed. Theories of Education in Early America, 1655-1819. New York: Bobbs-Merrill
Katz, M. (1968) “Introduction.” [pp. 1-17]; “The True Idea of Education.” [pp. 124-130]; and “Conclusion. Educational Reform: Myths and Limits.” [pp. 213-218] In The Irony of Early School Reform. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Kaestle, C. (1983) “Social Change and Education in the American Northeast, 1830-1860.” [pp. 62-74] In Pillars of the Republic. New York: Hill and Wang.
Mann, H. Selections from “Twelfth Annual Report (1848)” [pp. 79-112] In The Republic and the School.
Katz, M. “Alternative Models for American Education.” [pp. 24-57] In Reconstructing American Education.
Emerson, R. “Education.” [pp. 1-34] In Education, An Essay, and Other Selections.
Haefner, G. (1937/1970) “Alcott’s Philosophy of Education” and “Rote Versus Rational Learning.” [pp. 45-47 and 78-98] In A Critical Estimate of the Educational Theories and Practices of A. Bronson Alcott. New York: Greenwood Press.
Alcott, A. B. (1877) Selection from Table-Talk [pp.127-138]. Philadelphia: Albert Saifer.
Anderson, J. (1988) “Ex-Slaves and the Rise of Universal Education, 1860-1880.” [pp. 4-32] In The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Gould, S. (1981) Selections from “Introduction” and “American Polygeny and Craniometry Before Darwin: Blacks and Indians as Separate, Inferior Species.” In The Mismeasure of Man. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
Douglass, F. (1845/1986) Selection from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. [pp. 77-87] New York: Penguin.
Washington, B. (1903) “Industrial Education for the Negro.” [pp. 59-62] In Lazerson, M. (1987) American Education in the Twentieth Century. New York: Teachers College Press.
DuBois, W. (1903) “The Talented Tenth.” [pp. 62-66] In Lazerson, M. (1987) American Education in the Twentieth Century. New York: Teachers College Press.
Myrdal, G. (1944) “The Negro School.” [pp. 879-907] In An American Dilemma.
Gates, Jr., H. (1992) “The Master’s Pieces: On Canon Formation and the African-American Tradition.” [pp. 17-42] In Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars. New York: Oxford University Press.
Cott, N. (1977) “Conclusion: On ‘Women’s Sphere’ and Feminism.” [197-208] In The Bonds of Womanhood: “Women’s Sphere” in New England, 1780-1835. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Flexner, E. (1975) “The Intellectual Progress of Women, 1860-1875.” [115-118] In Century of Struggle: The Woman’s Rights Movement in the U.S. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Sexton, P. (1976) “The American Experience.” [39-52] In Women In Education. Bloomington: Phi Delta Kappa.
Tyack, D. (1974) “Teachers and the Male Mystique.” [59-65] In The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Beecher, C. (1835) “The Education of Female Teachers.” [pp. 67-75] In The Educated Woman in America, B. Cross, ed. New York: Teachers College Press.
Gilligan, C. (1982) “Woman’s Place in Man’s Life Cycle.” [pp. 5-23] In In a Different Voice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Spring, J. (1972) “The Classroom as Factory and Community.” [pp. 44-61] In Education and the Rise of the Corporate State. Boston: Beacon Press.
Tyack, D. (1974) Selection from “Inside the System: The Character of Urban Schools, 1890-1940.” [177-216] In The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education.Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Spencer, H. (1966) “Political Education.” [pp. 113-118] In Herbert Spencer on Education. NY: TC Press.
Sumner, W. (1919/1963) “Who Win By Progress?” [pp. 158-162] In Social Darwinism: Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
Dewey, J. (1981) “The Child and the Curriculum.” [467-483] In The Philosophy of John Dewey. J. McDermott. 2 vol. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Piaget, J. (1995) “The Stages of Intellectual Development in Childhood and Adolescence” and selections from “Science of Education and the Psychology of the Child.” [814-819; 695-700; 710-719] In H. Gruber and J. Vonneche, eds., The Essential Piaget.
Addams, J. (1994) “Educational Methods (1902).” [98-119] In On Education, Lagemann, E., ed. New York: Transaction Publishing Co.
Counts, G. (1987) “Dare the School Build a New Social Order? (1932)” [97-99] In American Education in the Twentieth Century, Lazerson, M., ed. New York: Teachers College Press.
Dewey, J. (1980) “The School in the Life of the Child.” [21-38] In The School and Society. Carbondale: S. Illinois University Press. Not included in readings.)
Watson, J. (1913) “Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It.” [396-402] In L. Benjamin, ed., A History of Psychology. NY: McGraw-Hill.
Crain, W. (1984) “Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development.” [147-169] In Theories of Development.
Burman, E. (1990) “The Production of Piagetian Psychology.” [151-161] In Deconstructing Developmental Psychology. NY: Routledge.)
Cuban, L. (1986) “Film and Radio: The Promise of Bringing the World into the Classroom.” [9-26] and “Epilogue.” [104-109] In Teachers and Machines: The Classroom Use of Technology Since 1920. New York: Teachers College Press.
Papert, S. (1980) “Introduction: Computers for Children.” [3-18] In Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas. New York: HarperCollins.
Davy, J. (1984) “Mindstorms in the Lamplight.” [11-20] In The Computer in Education: A Critical Perspective, D. Sloan, ed. New York: Teachers College Press.
Miller, E. (2001) “Seven Disconnections in Our Thinking About Educational Technology.” [1-6] In Sloan, D. and S. Sagarin, eds., Computers, the Internet and Education: Seeking the Human Essentials. NY: Teachers College Press; forthcoming
Talbott, S. (1997) "Why is the Moon Getting Farther Away?" Netfuture 70, 1-5. http://www.ora.com/people/staff/stevet/netfuture/1998/Apr3098.
Spring, J. (1990) "The Conservative Reaction and the Politics of Education” [352-382] In The American School, 1642-1990, 2nd ed. New York: Longman Publishing Company.
Selection from “A Nation At Risk” (1983). [5-36]
“Goals 2000: National Educational Goals” (1996). http://inet.ed.gov/legislation/GOALS2000
(1999) Karp, S. “Equity Suits Clog the Courts” [4-9] and Morales, J. et. al.,“The Courts and Equity: A State-by-State Overview.” [61-67] In Funding For Justice.
Illich, I. (1970) “Why We Must Disestablish School.” [1-24] In Deschooling Society. NY: Harper & Row.
Gatto, J. (1992) "The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher." [1-21] In Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. Philadelphia: New Society Pub.
Weil, S. (2001) “Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies With a View to the Love of God.” [57-66] In Waiting for God. New York: Harper Perennial.
Miller, R. (1990) “Imported Holistic Movements.”[121-139] In What Are Schools For? Holistic Education in the United States. Brandon, VT: Holistic Education Press.
Sloan, D. (1992) “Imagination, Education, and Our Postmodern Possibilities.” Revision, 15, 2, Fall.
Lusseyran, J. (1958) “The Blind In Society.” [pp. 9-20] Proceedings, No. 27, Fall 1973. New York: The Myrin Institute.
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