Whose America?

preview-18
  • Whose America? Book Detail

  • Author : Jonathan Zimmerman
  • Release Date : 2005-11-30
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Genre : Education
  • Pages : 330
  • ISBN 13 : 9780674045446
  • File Size : 80,80 MB

Whose America? by Jonathan Zimmerman PDF Summary

Book Description: What do America's children learn about American history, American values, and human decency? Who decides? In this absorbing book, Jonathan Zimmerman tells the dramatic story of conflict, compromise, and more conflict over the teaching of history and morality in twentieth-century America. In history, whose stories are told, and how? As Zimmerman reveals, multiculturalism began long ago. Starting in the 1920s, various immigrant groups--the Irish, the Germans, the Italians, even the newly arrived Eastern European Jews--urged school systems and textbook publishers to include their stories in the teaching of American history. The civil rights movement of the 1960s and '70s brought similar criticism of the white version of American history, and in the end, textbooks and curricula have offered a more inclusive account of American progress in freedom and justice. But moral and religious education, Zimmerman argues, will remain on much thornier ground. In battles over school prayer or sex education, each side argues from such deeply held beliefs that they rarely understand one another's reasoning, let alone find a middle ground for compromise. Here there have been no resolutions to calm the teaching of history. All the same, Zimmerman argues, the strong American tradition of pluralism has softened the edges of the most rigorous moral and religious absolutism.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Whose America? books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Whose America?

Whose America?

File Size : 93,93 MB
Total View : 3354 Views
DOWNLOAD

What do America's children learn about American history, American values, and human decency? Who decides? In this absorbing book, Jonathan Zimmerman tells the d

Beyond the Culture Wars

Beyond the Culture Wars

File Size : 98,98 MB
Total View : 5603 Views
DOWNLOAD

In the heated academic warfare over multiculturalism and the curriculum, Gerald Graff takes a daring stand. He suggests that the anger and hostility over politi

White Washing American Education

White Washing American Education

File Size : 59,59 MB
Total View : 8971 Views
DOWNLOAD

Recent attacks on Ethnic Studies, revisionist actions in curriculum content, and anti-immigrant policies are creating a new culture war in America. This importa

Culture Wars

Culture Wars

File Size : 41,41 MB
Total View : 9730 Views
DOWNLOAD

A riveting account of how Christian fundamentalists, Orthodox Jews, and conservative Catholics have joined forces in a battle against their progressive counterp

Whose America?

Whose America?

File Size : 44,44 MB
Total View : 8809 Views
DOWNLOAD

In this expanded edition of his 2002 book, Zimmerman surveys how battles over public education have become conflicts at the heart of American national identity.