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Teaching As a Subversive Activity A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World

Paperback • 1971 • English

Teaching As a Subversive Activity A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World

By Neil Postman

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A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods—with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world. Praise for Teaching As a Subversive Activity “A healthy dose of Postman and Weingartner is a good thing: if they make even a dent in the pious . . . American classroom, the book will be worthwhile.”—New York Times Book Review   “Teaching and knowledge are subversive in that they necessarily substitute awareness for guesswork, and knowledge for e...Show more

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9780385290098

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published year

1971

Language

English

Original title

Teaching As a Subversive Activity A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World

Format

Paperback

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