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Teaching as a subversive activity / [by] Neil Postman [and] Charles Weingartner.
Publication details: New York, NY : Dell pub., 1969.Description: xv, 219 p.; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780385290098 (pbk.) :
- 0385290098 (pbk.) :
- LA217 .P6
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Summary: Education is not schooling, and for Neil Postman schooling may be subversive or conserving activity, but it is certainly a circumscribed one. As Postman. with a bit of irony describes the schooling time scheme: 'It has a late beginning and an early end and in between it pauses for sumemr vacations and holidays, and generously excuses us when we are ill._from Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education.
Crap detecting -- The medium is the message, of course -- The inquiry method -- Pursuing relevance -- What's worth knowing -- Meaning making -- Languaging -- New teachers -- City schools -- Mew languages: the media -- Two alternatives -- So what do you do now? -- Strategies for survival.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | LA 217 .P67 1969 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Copy Type:01 - Books | Available | 600200 |
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| LA 216 .S783 2011 Student life / | LA 217 .G654 1984 A place called school : prospects for the future / | LA 217 .K57 1984 Who controls our schools? : American values in conflict / | LA 217 .P67 1969 Teaching as a subversive activity / | LA 217.2 The influence of teachers : reflections on teaching and leadership / | LA 217.2 .F566 2010 Education redux : how to make schools relevant to our children and our future / | LA 217.2 .G88 1999 Democratic education / |
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Crap detecting -- The medium is the message, of course -- The inquiry method -- Pursuing relevance -- What's worth knowing -- Meaning making -- Languaging -- New teachers -- City schools -- Mew languages: the media -- Two alternatives -- So what do you do now? -- Strategies for survival.
Education is not schooling, and for Neil Postman schooling may be subversive or conserving activity, but it is certainly a circumscribed one. As Postman. with a bit of irony describes the schooling time scheme: 'It has a late beginning and an early end and in between it pauses for sumemr vacations and holidays, and generously excuses us when we are ill._from Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education.
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