Classroom Wars - Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture

Zusatztext creative and insightful ... Petrzela has produced an important book about an understudied part of the culture wars. Her careful and thorough research makes numerous significant arguments relevant to both the past and the present. Thanks to this fine work, we will no longer be able to separate debates over sex-ed from those over bilingual education. Informationen zum Autor Natalia Mehlman Petrzela is Assistant Professor of History at The New School and a former public school teacher. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, and The Huffington Post. Visit her website at www.nataliapetrzela.com for more information on her writing, teaching, and events. Klappentext Considering two of the 1960s and 70s' most innovative educational programs--Spanish-bilingual and sex education-- Natalia Mehlman Petrzela charts how during a time of extraordinary social change, Americans fused values about family, personal, and civic morality in their children's public school education. Zusammenfassung Considering two of the 1960s and 70s' most innovative educational programs--Spanish-bilingual and sex education-- Natalia Mehlman Petrzela charts how during a time of extraordinary social change, Americans fused values about family, personal, and civic morality in their children's public school education. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Language 1: The Beginnings of Modern Bilingual Education 2: The Polarization of Bilingual Education 3: "Birds of Many Colors": Language, Culture, and Community in 1970s San Jose 4: "Some Kind of Precedent": The Ambiguous Legacy of Bilingual Education Part Two: Sex 5: "The Pot was Already Boiling": Parents, Teachers, Taxes, and Sex Education in San Mateo 6: Family Life and Sex Education and the Unmaking of Anaheim's "Golden Age" 7: "Which Way America?" California's Moral Guidelines Committee and the Forging of a Patriotic Morality 8: "This Thing is Spreading All Over California": Sex Education in the Seventies Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index ...

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• Authors: Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Natalia Mehlman (Assistant Professor of Petrzela, Natalia Mehlman (Assistant Professor of History Petrzela, Petrzela Natalia Mehlman
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9780190675097
• ISBN: 978-0-19-067509-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Politics & government, Politics and government, Gender studies, gender groups, History of the Americas, Schools, Schools and pre-schools, EDUCATION / Schools / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General