Culture Wars in American Education: Past and Present Struggles Over the Symbolic Order (Critical Social Thought)

Synopsis

Culture Wars in American Education: Past and Present Struggles Over the Symbolic Order radically questions norms and values held within US Education and analyses why and how culture wars in American education are intense, consequential, and recurrent.Applying the concept of “symbolic order,” this volume elaborates ways in which symbolic representations are used to draw boundaries, allocate status, and legitimate the exercise of authority and power within American schooling. In particular, the book illustrates the “terms of inclusion” by which full membership in the national community is defined, limited, and contested. It suggests that repetitive patterns in the symbolic order, for example, the persistence of the representation of an individualistic basis of American society and polity, constrain the reach of progressive change. The book examines the World War I era Americanization movement, the World War II era Intercultural Education movement, the late-twentieth-century Multicultural Education movement, continuing right-wing assaults on Ethnic Studies and Critical Race Theory in the first decades of the twenty-first century, and historical and contemporary conflicts over the incorporation of languages other than Standard English into approved instructional approaches.In the context of continuing culture wars in the United States and across the globe, this book will be of interest to graduate students and scholars in critical studies of education, history of education, sociology of education, curriculum theory, Multicultural Education, and comparative education, as well as to educators enmeshed in contemporary tensions and conflicts.

Copyright:

2024

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Publisher Quality

Book Size:

224 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781040029657

Related ISBNs:

9781040029619, 9781032664170, 9781032660448, 9781032664163

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Date of Addition:

06/03/24

Copyrighted By:

Michael R. Olneck. The right of Michael R. Olneck to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections

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No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Education, Language Arts, Foreign Language Study, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Sociology

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