Format:
XI, 320 pages
,
Ill., Kt.
ISBN:
9780199358458
Content:
"From Cultural Appreciation Days to Gay-Straight Alliances to cafeteria menus featuring "ethnic options," twenty-first century American public schools bear the unmistakable mark of the diversity that has come to define the nation in the last fifty years. At the same time, it is also in public schools where citizens continue to organize most passionately to limit the influence of this heterogeneity on our curricula and classroom culture. Classroom Wars explores how we got here. Focusing in on California's schools during the 1960s and 1970s, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela charts how a state and a citizenry deeply committed to public education as an engine of civic and moral education navigated the massive changes brought about by the 1960s, including the sexual revolution, school desegregation, and a dramatic increase in Latino immigration. In California, where a volatile political culture nurtured both Orange County mega-churches and Berkeley coffeehouses, these changes reverberated especially powerfully. Analyzing two of the era's most innovative, nationally impactful, and never-before juxtaposed programs...Spanish-bilingual and sex education...Classroom Wars charts how during a time of extraordinary social change, grass-roots citizens politicized the schoolhouse and family. Many came to link such progressive educational programs not only with threats to the family and nation but also with rising taxes, which they feared were being squandered on morally lax educators teaching ethically questionable curricula.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-307) and index
Language:
English
Keywords:
Kalifornien
;
Schule
;
Zweisprachigkeit
;
Erziehung
;
Bildungspolitik
;
Geschichte
;
Kalifornien
;
Schule
;
Sexualerziehung
;
Geschichte 1960-1980
;
Kalifornien
;
Schule
;
Bildungspolitik
;
Geschichte 1960-1980
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=44291
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