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The Case for Contention: Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools
Zimmerman, Jonathan; Robertson, Emily
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hardcover. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: JNLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
From the fights about the teaching of evolution to the details of sex education, it may seem like American schools are hotbeds of controversy. But as Jonathan Zimmerman and Emily Robertson show in this insightful book, it is precisely because such topics are so inflammatory outside school walls that they are so commonly avoided within them. And this, they argue, is a tremendous disservice to our students. Armed with a detailed history of the development of American educational policy and norms and a clear philosophical analysis of the value of contention in public discourse, they show that one of the ... Read more
From the fights about the teaching of evolution to the details of sex education, it may seem like American schools are hotbeds of controversy. But as Jonathan Zimmerman and Emily Robertson show in this insightful book, it is precisely because such topics are so inflammatory outside school walls that they are so commonly avoided within them. And this, they argue, is a tremendous disservice to our students. Armed with a detailed history of the development of American educational policy and norms and a clear philosophical analysis of the value of contention in public discourse, they show that one of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226456201
SKU
V9780226456201
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About Zimmerman, Jonathan; Robertson, Emily
Jonathan Zimmerman is professor of history of education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of six books, including, most recently, Campus Politics, and is a regular contributor to newspapers such as the New York Times and the Washington Post. Emily Robertson is associate professor emerita at Syracuse University. She is the ... Read more
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