Social And Cultural Foundations Of American Education: Fall 2006 Edition, A Student Authored Textbook

This book is the hard copy version of a WikiText published online at en.wikibooks.org. The WikiText Development Process in ECI301 at Old Dominion University Darden College of Education, Fall, 2006. This WikiText, The Social and Cultural Foundations of Education, is the combined effort of a dedicated group of professional collaborators, faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students. The course was planned by Dr. Patrick O'Shea, Adjunct Faculty Member, who had the original idea for a WikiText, Dwight W. Allen, Eminent Scholar of Educational Reform, Peter Baker, Coordinating Graduate Assistant for ECI301 where the WikiText has been developed and used, and Douglas Allen, Associate Professor of Human Resources Development at the University of Denver. In the fall they were joined by two other senior researchers, Kevin DePew, Assistant Professor of English, and Danny Curry-Corcoran, Director of Evaluation for the Newport News Public Schools.

Author: Eci301 Students Old Dominion University
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 01/06/2009
Pages: 298
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9781440477881

About the Author
Though the idea of WikiTexts is new, others have developed texts with the cooperation of students, usually graduate students, with limited success. We decided to take a very different approach taking advantage of the large numbers of students enrolled (about 225) in this introductory class. First of all students were asked to produce a relatively brief (1,000 words) and very narrowly focused article on one of about 75 topics selected by the professional staff as representing a "typical" mix of topics for comparable courses. With about 225 students in the class, we created a "sign up page" in the WikiText which allowed as many as three students to sign up for each topic. In most cases we had two or three student-authored versions of each article

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