Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (594 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0230600107 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 251 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Textcontext said Perplexed about Educational Slogans and Progressive Education?. Many people will not appreciate this book. Any candid review should help such readers save their precious money and more scarce reading time. It is on this initial caveat that I condition my strong recommendation in favor of this scholarly analysis of a timely and politically charg
Beginning with the genealogy of progressive education, and ending with the formation of New Left and New Right thought, Education and the Cold War offers a fresh perspective on the postwar transformation in U.S. The schools served as a battleground in the ideological conflicts of the 1950s. Shortly after the Russians launched Sputnik in 1957, Hannah Arendt quipped that "only in America could a crisis in education actually become a factor in politics." The Cold War battle for the American school - dramatized but not initiated by Sputnik - proved Arendt correct. political culture by way of an examination of the educational history of that era.
ANDREW HARTMAN is an Assistant Professor of History at Illinois State University, USA.
At the same time, because this book is primarily an intellectual history, Hartman justifiably eschews tempting claims about what American schools, still largely decentralized, were actually doing. For readers wishing to examine the crisis in education as America moved into the Cold War, this well-organized synthesis provides an excellent point of departure." - Ronald Lora, University of Toledo, USA"The work offers a rich blend of documentary evidence and philosophical reflection." - Samuel Day Fassbinder"In contemporary American culture, 'the conservative 1950s' have become something of a cliché. Even better, he makes us question whether the schoo