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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction 2. Americanization and the Education of Immigrants, 1900-1925: An Analysis of Symbolic Action 3. The Recurring Dream: Symbolism and Ideology in Intercultural Education and Mainstream Multicultural Education 4. Many More Tucsons? Ethnic Studies in Public Schools 5. Regulating Language: Why Did Oakland's Ebonics Resolution Cause a Language Panic While California's Proposition 227 Did Not? 6. Retreat from Nativism? Dual Language Education 7. What Have Immigrants Wanted From American Schools? What Do They Want Now? Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigrants, Language, and American Schooling 8. Epilogue
