Culture Wars in American Education

Regular price €179.80
A01=Michael R. Olneck
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
American Education
Author_Michael R. Olneck
automatic-update
Bilingual
Bilingual education
Bilingualism
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=CFDM
Category=JNAM
Category=JNF
COP=United Kingdom
Culture War
Culture Wars
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_dictionaries-language-reference
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Immigrant education
Immigration
Language_English
Migration
Multilingual
Multilingual education
Multilingualism
PA=Available
Politics of Education
Populism
Price_€100 and above
PS=Active
softlaunch
Symbolic Order
US Education

Product details

  • ISBN 9781032664163
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Jun 2024
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days

Our Delivery Time Frames Explained
2-4 Working Days: Available in-stock

10-20 Working Days
: On Backorder

Will Deliver When Available
: On Pre-Order or Reprinting

We ship your order once all items have arrived at our warehouse and are processed. Need those 2-4 day shipping items sooner? Just place a separate order for them!

Culture Wars in American Education: Past and Present Struggles Over the Symbolic Order radically questions norms and values held within US Education and analyses why and how culture wars in American education are intense, consequential, and recurrent.

Applying the concept of “symbolic order,” this volume elaborates ways in which symbolic representations are used to draw boundaries, allocate status, and legitimate the exercise of authority and power within American schooling. In particular, the book illustrates the “terms of inclusion” by which full membership in the national community is defined, limited, and contested. It suggests that repetitive patterns in the symbolic order, for example, the persistence of the representation of an individualistic basis of American society and polity, constrain the reach of progressive change. The book examines the World War I era Americanization movement, the World War II era Intercultural Education movement, the late-twentieth-century Multicultural Education movement, continuing right-wing assaults on Ethnic Studies and Critical Race Theory in the first decades of the twenty-first century, and historical and contemporary conflicts over the incorporation of languages other than Standard English into approved instructional approaches.

In the context of continuing culture wars in the United States and across the globe, this book will be of interest to graduate students and scholars in critical studies of education, history of education, sociology of education, curriculum theory, Multicultural Education, and comparative education, as well as to educators enmeshed in contemporary tensions and conflicts.

Michael R. Olneck is Emeritus Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.