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School and Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, 4/e
Stephen E. Tozer, The University of Illinois, Chicago
Paul C. Violas
Guy Senese, Northern Arizona University

A core text for the Social Foundations course, School and Society provides an analytic framework that shows how and why certain school-society issues first arose in this country and changed over time. In its examination of the evolution of education in the United States, this book tells an engaging historical story. The analytical framework of the text focuses on the political economy, the dominant ideology, and existing educational practices that are prevalent in any one historical era.