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Teaching as a Subversive Activity

by Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner · 1969

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A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods—with dramatic & practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world.

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Introduction

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

New languages: the media-

Two alternatives

So what do you do now?

Strategies for survival

Subject
educationeducationMore like thisLess of thisphilosophyphilosophyMore like thisLess of thispsychologypsychologyMore like thisLess of thissociologysociologyMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of this
Themes
teachersteachersMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of thisparentingparentingMore like thisLess of thisrelationshipsrelationshipsMore like thisLess of thisrevolutionrevolutionMore like thisLess of this
Setting
20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adultchildrens
Length
medium · 240 pages

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