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Teaching as a subversive activity / [by] Neil Postman [and] Charles Weingartner.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York, NY : Dell pub., 1969.Description: xv, 219 p.; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780385290098 (pbk.) :
  • 0385290098 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LA217 .P6
Contents:
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.
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Home library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection LA 217 .P67 1969 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 600200

" A Delta book"

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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