Contrasting Arguments: The Culture War and the Clash in Education

by Oscar Pemantle

Overview

Contrasting Arguments: The Culture War and The Clash in Education is a small study that presents the variable story of the culture wars and the clash in education from the point of view of the principle actors on the two sides

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433151651
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	10/18/2019
Edition description:	New
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Oscar Pemantle studied political science at Minnesota, Yale, and Berkeley with Mulford Sibley, Willmoore Kendall, and Sheldon Wolin, respectively. Students remember him as a "Magic Teacher" in his three years on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley (Dept. of Rhetoric) and three more years in its adult Extension. Losing his eyesight, he could not finish his dissertation, Man and Movement: The Natural History of an Idea, despite encouragement and support from Sir Isaiah Berlin and E. H. Carr. He turned from textual analysis to the education of children, founding and for twenty years directing the very creative and thriving Black Pine Circle Day School in Berkeley, which he based on Socratic teaching. Pemantle went on to develop Socratic teacher training programs in California and Mexico. He is the founder and director of The Institute for Active Learning. He recently completed the first of a two-volume study, Who Killed Education?

Table of Contents

Introduction – The Transformation of Antonio Gramsci: A Study in Retrieval – "The Magic of Marxism": Paulo Freire Pro and Contra – The Two Codes: Origins and Meaning of the Culture War in Education – The Traditional Mistake of the Traditional Educator – How Myths Are Made: The Mythic Power of Marxism – Truths, Half Truths, and One and a Half Truths: From Diane Ravitch to Sheldon S. Wolin – Bertrand Russell and the Eureka Syndrome: Kekule’s Dream – Where Ends Collide: The Liberal-Conservative Debate in Philosophy – The Conservative Critique – Closing Comments – Final Remarks – Conclusion: The Argument in Model Form.