The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School

Postman, Neil

ISBN 10: 0679750312 / ISBN 13: 9780679750314

Editore: Vintage, 1996

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• Titolo: The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School
• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0679750312
• ISBN 13: 9780679750314
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Jacket

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Riassunto

Postman suggests that the current crisis in our educational system derives from its failure to supply students with a translucent, unifying "narrative" like those that inspired earlier generations. Instead, today's schools promote the false "gods" of economic utility, consumerism, or ethnic separatism and resentment. What alternative strategies can we use to instill our children with a sense of global citizenship, healthy intellectual skepticism, respect of America's traditions, and appreciation of its diversity? In answering this question, The End of Education restores meaning and common sense to the arena in which they are most urgently needed.



"Informal and clear...Postman's ideas about education are appealingly fresh."--New York Times Book Review

Informazioni sull?autore

Neil Postman was University Professor, Paulette Goddard Chair of Media Ecology, and Chair of the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University. Among his twenty books are studies of childhood (The Disappearance of Childhood), public discourse (Amusing Ourselves to Death), education (Teaching as a Subversive Activity and The End of Education), and the impact of technology (Technopoly). His interest in education was long-standing, beginning with his experience as an elementary and secondary school teacher. He died in 2003.