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Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 21 Contents Preface xi About the Contributors xxiii PART I: DEFINING AND CONTEXTUALIZING SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS 1 Social Foundations, Teaching Standards, 3 and the Future of Teacher Preparation Steve Tozer and Debra Miretzky 2 Is There a Social Foundation Canon? An Interview 29 with Eric Bredo, Wendy Kohli, Joseph Newman, and Barbara Thayer-Bacon Dan W. Butin PART II: MODELS OF SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS PRACTICE 3 Making Educational Research Real: Students 59 as Researchers and Creators of Community-Based Oral Histories Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. vii viii CONTENTS 4 Social Foundations as Pedagogies of Responsibility 71 and Eco-Ethical Commitment Rebecca A. Martusewicz and Jeff Edmundson 5 "To Live for Art": Teaching and Learning Aesthetic 93 Education Within Foundations of Education Mary Bushnell Greiner PART III: DEVELOPING TEACHER EDUCATORS WITH/IN SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS 6 Identity (Re)Construction and Student Resistance 109 Dan W. Butin 7 Confronting the Paradox of Autonomy in a Social 127 Foundations Classroom Kathleen Knight Abowitz 8 Social Foundations Within Teacher Education 151 Jeff Edmundson and Mary Bushnell Greiner 9 Reflections on a Social Foundations Approach 167 to Teacher Education Kathleen deMarrais PART IV: SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS AND THE ENGAGEMENT OF CONTESTED POSITIONS 10 Diversity, Democracy, and Definitions: Contested 191 Positions for the Future of the Social Foundations Dan W. Butin Appendix: Course Syllabi 201 Social Foundation of Education Syllabus 203 Dan W. Butin Teaching and Learning 101 Syllabus 227 Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. Sociocultural Studies in Education Syllabus 243 Kathleen Knight Abowitz CONTENTS ix SOFD 328 — Schools in a Multicultural Society Syllabus 257 Rebecca A. Martusewicz Author Index 271 Subject Index 275