Honors 263C, SPR10
Perennial Issues of Education and Schooling

Instructor: Roger Soder
Email: rsoder@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: By appointment
Telephone: 206.789.7515

Course readings

Soder, Developing Democratic Character

Stone, Equality

Plutarch, Sparta

Singapore

Singapore Update

Tocqueville, "Democracy in America"

Hofstadter, Anti-intellectualism in American Life

Clark, "The Cooling-Out Function"

Burton Clark, Cooling Out Revisited Twenty Years On

Soder, When I Get My Own Classroom

March, Yo se quien soy

Soder, Rhetoric of Teacher Professionalization

Soder, Ethics of Rhetoric of Teacher Professionalization

Aristotle, selections from Politics

Quintilian, "Institutes of Oratory"

Montaigne, "Education of Children"

Whitehead, "Aims of Education"

Ogbu, "Overcoming Racial Barriers," in Access to Knowledge

Rist, The Urban School

O'Connor, "Introduction: Framing the Field"

Butterfield, "To Be Young, Gifted, Black, and Somewhat Foreign"

Mickelson and Velasco, "Bring It On"

Beyond Acting White Bibliography

Counts, Dare the Schools Build a New Social Order

Counts, Selective Character of American Secondary Education

Sirotnik, Critical Concerns About Accountability

Soder, Double Bind of Civic Education Assessment

Rist, Harvard Educational Review

Ogbu and Simons, Voluntary and Involuntary Minorities

Geneva Gay, Culturally Responsive Teaching

Walter Lippmann, Adversaries

Walter Lippmann, Civility

Lareau, Unequal Childhoods

Lareau, Unequal Childhoods 12

Lareau, Unequal Childhoods notes, chapters 1-2

Lareau, Unequal Childhoods notes, chapter 12

Lee and Burkan, Inequality at the Starting Gate, Chapter 1

Lee and Burkan, Inequality at the Starting Gate, Chapter 2

Hart and Risley, Early Catastrophe

Pangle, Retriving Civic Education

Callahan, Cult of Efficiency

Murray, Too Many People Going to College

Pangle and Pangle, Founder Fathers and Education

Charles Burgess, Goddess, Compulsion