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Overview"By exploring the tensions, impacts, and origins of major controversies relating to schooling and curricula since the early twentieth century, this insightful text illustrates how fear has played a key role in steering the development of education in the United States. Through rigorous historical investigation, Evans demonstrates how numerous public disputes over specific curricular content have been driven by broader societal hopes and fears. Illustrating how the population’s concerns have been historically projected onto American schooling, the text posits educational debate and controversy as a means by which we struggle over changing anxieties and competing visions of the future, and in doing so, limit influence of key progressive initiatives. Episodes examined include the Rugg textbook controversy, the 1950s ""crisis"" over progressive education, the MACOS dispute, conservative restoration, culture war battles, and corporate school reform. In examining specific periods of intense controversy, and drawing on previously untapped archival sources, the author identifies patterns and discontinuities and explains the origins, development, and results of each case. Ultimately, this volume powerfully reveals the danger that fear-based controversies pose to hopes for democratic education. This informative and insightful text will be of interest to graduate and postgraduate students, researchers, and academics in the fields of educational reform, history of education, curriculum studies, and sociology of education." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ronald W. EvansPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.358kg ISBN: 9780367777203ISBN 10: 0367777207 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 01 April 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Manuscript Collections Abbreviated in Notes Introduction: Fear and Schooling Chapter 1. The Rugg Textbook Controversy: Prelude to a Crisis Chapter 2. ""Crisis"" Over Progressive Education, 1947-1958 Chapter 3. The MACOS Dispute: Nationwide Controversy and the End of an Era Chapter 4. The Conservative Restoration and Return to Tradition, 1971-1989 Chapter 5. Culture War Over the Schools: US History, Texas, Arizona Chapter 6. Corporate School Reform: From Charlottesville to Jefferson County"ReviewsAuthor InformationRonald W. Evans is professor of education at San Diego State University, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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