Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

Classroom Wars

Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Considering two of the 1960s and 70s' most innovative educational programs--Spanish-bilingual and sex education-- Natalia Mehlman Petrzela charts how during a time of extraordinary social change, Americans fused values about family, personal, and civic morality in their children's public school education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780199358458
• ISBN-10: 0199358451
• Artikelnr.: 47866021

Autorenporträt

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela is Assistant Professor of History at The New School, a former public school teacher, and a native Spanish-speaker.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Part One: Language
* 1: The Beginnings of Modern Bilingual Education
* 2: The Polarization of Bilingual Education
* 3: "Birds of Many Colors": Language, Culture, and Community in 1970s
San Jose
* 4: "Some Kind of Precedent": The Ambiguous Legacy of Bilingual
Education
* Part Two: Sex
* 5: "The Pot was Already Boiling": Parents, Teachers, Taxes, and Sex
Education in San Mateo
* 6: Family Life and Sex Education and the Unmaking of Anaheim's
"Golden Age"
* 7: "Which Way America?" California's Moral Guidelines Committee and
the Forging of a Patriotic Morality
* 8: "This Thing is Spreading All Over California": Sex Education in
the Seventies
* Conclusion
* Appendix
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index