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Tiêu đề

Pedagogues, periodicals, and paranoia

Tác giả

Jackson R.L.

Năm xuất bản

2008

Source title

Society

Số trích dẫn

DOI

10.1007/s12115-007-9038-4

Liên kết

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-45449086722&doi=10.1007%2fs12115-007-9038-4&partnerID=40&md5=66f6e468e35ae280689408d706d00203

Tóm tắt

Over the past year, several published volumes have argued that American politics is careening out of control, toward a slippery slope of twenty-first century theocracy. Most of these books present tendentious interpretations of contemporary politics as matter-of-fact analysis. The reader is assumed to hold the same interpretive bias and warned of the dangers of a new and powerful American "fundamentalism." The current article explores a historical parallel to today's trend. Nearly a century ago, the Progressive Education movement sought to undermine the pedagogical dominance of traditional, literature-based education, preferring a more socially-conscious curriculum. The striking similarities between John Dewey's anti-traditional approach and the present-day anti-theocracy faction are multitude - and worth our consideration. The seeds of Progressive Education are now producing weeds of anti-religious sentiment across America's political landscape - a cultural phenomena that is constricting the growth of a much needed civil discourse. © Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2007.

Từ khóa

American politics; Fundamentalism; Liberal arts education; Progressive education

Tài liệu tham khảo

Gamble R.M., The war for righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the great war and the rise of the messianic nation, (2003); Larson E.J., Summer for the Gods: The scopes trial and America's continuing debate over science and religion, (1997); Menand L., The metaphysical club: A story of ideas in America, (2001); Ravitch D., Left back: A century of battles over school reform, (2000); Wood P., Diversity: The invention of a concept, (2003)