[NLA] DC Logic in the Neo-Conservative Era

Tue Oct 22 08:02:32 EDT 2002

And thank you George !!  Excellent !  May I put in my bid to throw the first
match ?

art

Art LaChance
Gilmer Learning Center
Ellijay, GA

"George E. Demetrion" wrote:

> 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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