[NLA] DC Logic in the Neo-Conservative Era

Mon Oct 21 22:45:57 EDT 2002

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:55:07 -0500 M C Smith <mcsmith at niu.edu> writes:
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;THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION'S Office of Educational Research
 and Improvement will be replaced by an autonomous Academy of  Education
Sciences, with the goal of infusing the beleaguered  area of federal
education research with scientific rigor, &t; under legislation passed by
Congress last week. President  Bush is expected to sign the bill. 

Books on Education and Literacy Lacking Scientific Rigor:

1.   Apple, Michael  (2000).  Democratic Education in a Conservative Age
2.   Applebee, Arthur M. (1996).  Curriculum as Conversation: 
Transforming Traditions of Teaching and Learning
3.  Auerbach, Elsa (1993).  Making Meaning Making Change
4.  Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis (1976)  Schooling in Capitalist
America:  Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life
5.  Bruner, Jerome (1987).  Actual Minds Possible Worlds
6.  Bruner, Jerome (1996).  The Culture of Education
7.  Cherryholmes, Cleo (1988).  Power and Criticism:  Poststructural
Investigations in Education.
8.  Cochran-Smith, Marilyn, & Lytle, Susan (1993).  Inside/Outside: 
Teacher Research and Knowledge
9.  Dewey, John (1900).  The School and Society
10.  Dewey, John. (1916).  democracy and Education
11  Dewey, John (1933).  How we Think, 2nd edition).
12.  Dewey J. (1938).  Experience and Education
 13. Engel, Michael (2000).  The Struggle for Control of Public
Education:  Market Ideology Vs Democratic Values
14.  Fingeret, Hanna A. and Drennon, Cassandra (1997).  Literacy for
Life:  Adult Learners New Practices
15.  Fosnot, Catherine T. (Ed.) (1996).  Constructivism:  Theory,
Perspectives, and Practice
16.  Freire, Paulo (1970).  Pedagogy of the Oppressed
17.  Freire, Paulo (1985).  The Politics of education:  Culture Power and
Liberation
18.  Gardner, Howard (1983).  Frames of Mind:  The Theory of Multiple
Intelligence
19.  Gardner, Howard (1993).  Multiple Intelligences:  The Theory in
Practice
20.  Giroux, Henry A. (1988).  Schooling and the Struggle for democratic
Life:  Critical Pedagogy in the Modern Age
21.  Giroux, henry A. (1995).  Pedagogy and the Politics of Hope: 
Theory, Culture, and Schooling
22.  Hunter, Carman St John & Harman, David (1985).  Adult Literacy in
the United States
23.  Kegan, robert & Colleagues (2001).  Toward a new Pluralism in
ABE/ESOL Classrooms:  Teaching to Multiple "Cultures of Mind"
23.  Kliebard, Herbert M. (1995).  The Struggle for the American
Curriculum, 2nd edition
24. Kliebard, Herbert M. (1992).  Forging the American Curriculum: 
Essays in Curriculum History and Theory
25. Kliebard, Herbert M.(1999).  Schooled to Work:  Vocationalism and the
American Curriculum 1876-1946.
26.  Merrifield, Juliet, Bigman, Mary Beth. Hemphill, David, and Bennett
deMarrais, Kathleen (1997).  Literacy, language and technology in
Everyday Life
27.  Quigley, P. Allan (1997).  Rethinking Literacy Education:  The
Critical Need for Practice-Based Change
28.  Shapiro, Svi (1990).  Between capitalism and Democracy:  Educational
Policy and the Crisis of the Welfare State.
29.  Shor, Ira (1987).  Critical Teaching & Everyday Life
30.  Shor, Ira (1992).  Empowering Education:  Critical Teaching for
Social Change
31.  Smith, Frank (1997).  Reading Without Nonsense, 3rd Edition
32.  Smith, Frank, (1988).  Joining the Literacy Club:  Further Essays
into Education
33.  Vygotsky, Lev (1994).  Thought and Language
34.  Vygotsky, Lev (1978)  Mind and Society:  The development of Higher
Psychological Processes
35.  Venesky, Richard L., Wagner, Daniel A. and Cliberti. Barrie S.
(1990).  Toward defining Literacy

Question:  Is defining legitimacy in education exclusively from the
perspective of "scientific rigor"  congruent with the best scholarship in
the field of adult literacy studies over the past 100 years or is it more
of a reflection of a conservative political and intellectual reaction to
route out the very basis upon which a century of progressive scholarship
is based?

To put it more polemically for those who want to install a litmus test of
"scientific rigor" as the sole means of determining legitimacy for
educational studies, I recommend a public book burning in Washington D.C.
of the list aforementioned and a closing down of the nation's graduate
schools in education.

George Demetrion
of the dissenting tradition

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