Culture Wars: School and Society in the Conservative Restoration / Edition 1

by Ira Shor

Overview

This lively and controversial work critiques the conservative efforts in the 1970s and 1980s to undo the educational reforms of the 1960s, to reestablish control over the curriculum, and to change the nature of the debate and the goals of education.

"An outstanding work of educational theory and history."—John Coatsworth, University of Chicago

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226753607
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	09/01/1992
Edition description:	1
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Ira Shor is professor of English at the City University of New York Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island. He is the author of Critical Teaching and Everyday Life and Empowering Education, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Paulo Freire
Acknowledgments
1. The hinge of 1969
Authority makes war on the 1960s:
the theme of 'settling for less' in school and society
2. Settling for less, 1971-5:
the war for 'careerism'
Career education depresses
activism and aspirations
3. Settling for less, 1975-82:
the war on 'illiteracy'
The Literacy Crisis and back-to-basics
promote authority
4. Settling for less, 1982-4:
the war for 'excellence' and against 'mediocrity'
Authority and inequality disguised as excellence and high-tech
5. The hinge of 1983
Answers rise like angels:
agendas for transformation
Notes
Afterword
Index