Based upon the belief that a "foundations perspective" is a valuable tool in helping to improve schools, this non-traditional text combines a point-of-view analysis with primary source readings.

Exploring Education, 2/e, offers an alternative to traditional foundations texts. This book provides primary readings and a text in one source, challenging material that encourages critical and reflective thinking, and a point of view about the possibilities and limits of schools and teachers in solving educational problems.

Pre-service and practicing teachers will find a solid introduction to the foundations disciplines history, philosophy, politics, and sociology of education and their application to educational issues including school organization and teaching, curriculum and pedagogic practices, education and inequality and school reform and improvement. Exploring Education, 2/e, provides a research and theory based approach that demonstrates the usefulness of the foundations lens for critically examining and solving educational problems.