Kudos: Dotts publishes educational foundations book

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Brian Dotts, associate professor in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice, recently published his third book, “Educational Foundations: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives”. The 550-page book will be released next week in the United Kingdom by Cambridge University Press, and it will be released in the United States in late October.

This educational foundations book offers a comprehensive overview of American education history and a variety of classical, Enlightenment, and contemporary educational philosophers. While “Educational Foundations” includes a history of American education, it also looks at numerous policies, constitutional law cases, events, and political, religious, and social conflicts for students to consider. The text is divided into two sections: the first focuses on a broad array of philosophical influences from the Western canon, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, John Dewey, Paulo Freire, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Addams, and W.E.B. Du Bois, while the second is an exploration of the history of American education from the colonial to the modern era. The final chapter provides a critique of the privatization movement in the U.S.

With strong and helpful pedagogical features and resources, such as suggested class activities, suggested films and novels, chapter objectives, timelines, internet resources, and sidebar questions, this academic textbook is an excellent resource for undergraduate and graduate educational foundations students.