Ronald W. Evans
Fear and Schooling: Understanding the Troubled History of Progressive Education
Fear and Schooling: Understanding the Troubled History of Progressive Education
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This text explores how fear has driven the development of education in the United States by examining major controversies related to schooling and curricula since the early twentieth century. It demonstrates how public disputes over curricular content have been driven by broader societal hopes and fears, and how educational debate and controversy can limit the influence of progressive initiatives. The author identifies patterns and discontinuities in each case and explains the origins, development, and results of these controversies.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 244 pages
Publication date: 01 April 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Since the early 20th century, major controversies surrounding schooling and curricula in the United States have been explored, revealing how fear has played a significant role in shaping education. Through meticulous historical analysis, Evans demonstrates how public disputes over specific curricular content have been driven by broader societal hopes and fears. The text posits educational debate and controversy as a means by which we struggle over changing anxieties and competing visions of the future, limiting the influence of progressive initiatives. Episodes examined include the Rugg textbook controversy, the 1950s crisis over progressive education, the MACOS dispute, conservative restoration, culture war battles, and corporate school reform. By examining specific periods of intense controversy and drawing on previously untapped archival sources, the author identifies patterns and discontinuities and explains the origins, development, and results of each case. Ultimately, this volume powerfully reveals the danger that fear-based controversies pose to hopes for democratic education.
This informative and insightful text will be of interest to graduate and postgraduate students, researchers, and academics in the fields of educational reform, history of education, curriculum studies, and sociology of education.
Weight: 485g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367777203
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