Education and the Cold War : the battle for the American school / Andrew Hartman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hartman, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Political aspects--United States.

Education.

Education--Political aspects.

United States.

Education--United States--History.

History.

Cold War.

Physical Description:

x, 251 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

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. The schools served as a battleground in the ideological conflicts of the 1950s. 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. political culture by way of an examination of the educational history of that era.

Contents:

Introdutcion : education and the Cold War : an American crisis

John Dewey and the invention of childhood : progressive education in the beginning

Education and the Great Depression : the unraveling of the popular front and the roots of educational vigilantism

From hot war to cold war for schools and teenagers : the life adjustment movement as therapy for the immature

The communist teacher problematic : liberal anticommunism and the education of Bella Dodd

Progressive education is red-ucation : conservative thought and Cold War educational vigilantism

A crisis of the mind : the liberal intellectuals and the schools

From world-mindedness to Cold War-mindedness : the lost educational utopia of Theodore Brameld

Desegregation as Cold War experience : the perplexities of race in the blackboard jungle

Growing up absurd in the Cold War : Sputnik and the polarized Sixties

Conclusion : the educational reproduction of the Cold War.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-243) and index.

ISBN:

0230600107

9780230600102

OCLC:

156975194

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