Education and the Cold War: the battle for the American school/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York:
Palgrave Macmillan,
2011
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| Edition: | 1rst Palgrave Macmillan pbk. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : 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.