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Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture de Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture

Autor Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 apr 2015

Evoluția sistemului educațional american a reflectat constant tensiunile profunde din societate, transformând sala de clasă dintr-un spațiu pedagogic într-un adevărat câmp de luptă pentru identitatea națională. În Classroom Wars, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela explorează modul în care educația a devenit catalizatorul „războaielor culturale” moderne. Observăm cum, în California anilor 1960 și 1970, introducerea educației sexuale și a programelor bilingve a forțat o redefinire a valorilor familiale, transformând familia într-un spațiu politizat și rasializat. Remarcăm precizia cu care autoarea documentează reacția conservatoare față de ceea ce era perceput ca o intruziune a statului în autoritatea parentală și morală.

Această lucrare ocupă o nișă specifică în istoriografia americană. Ea acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum Bilingual Public Schooling in the United States de P. Ramsey, dar cu o abordare mult mai axată pe intersecția dintre gen, limbă și politică electorală, nu doar pe evoluția pedagogică. În timp ce Zevi Gutfreund în Speaking American se concentrează pe construcția cetățeniei prin limbaj, Petrzela lărgește cadrul, incluzând revoluția sexuală ca factor de polarizare la fel de potent.

În contextul operei sale, Classroom Wars stabilește fundamentele interesului autoarei pentru modul în care practicile cotidiene devin politice. Dacă în lucrarea sa ulterioară, Fit Nation, Petrzela analizează cultura exercițiului fizic ca ideologie americană, aici ea identifică rădăcinile acestui comportament în transformările curriculare postbelice. Structura narativă este susținută de o cercetare metodică, oferind o perspectivă nuanțată asupra modului în care dezbaterile despre diversitate de acum jumătate de secol continuă să influențeze politicile școlare contemporane.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199358458
ISBN-10: 0199358451
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 14 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 236 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor în științe politice și istorie, dar și celor interesați de originile polarizării sociale actuale. Cititorul va înțelege cum teme aparent administrative, precum programele bilingve, au devenit piloni ai identității politice americane. Este o analiză esențială pentru a descifra cum „valorile familiei” au fost construite și utilizate ca instrumente electorale în spațiul public.

Despre autor

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela este istoric și profesor asociat la New School, specializată în istoria politică și culturală a Statelor Unite moderne. Expertiza sa se concentrează pe modul în care instituțiile publice, în special școlile, devin arene pentru dezbateri ideologice majore. Pe lângă activitatea academică, este o prezență activă în spațiul public american, contribuind la publicații precum The New York Times și Washington Post. Lucrările sale, de la Classroom Wars la Fit Nation, demonstrează un interes constant pentru transformarea valorilor private în mișcări politice și sociale de amploare.

Descriere

From Cultural Appreciation Days to Gay-Straight Alliances to cafeteria menus featuring "ethnic options," twenty-first century American public schools bear the unmistakable mark of the diversity that has come to define the nation in the last fifty years. At the same time, it is also in public schools where citizens continue to organize most passionately to limit the influence of this heterogeneity on our curricula and classroom culture. Classroom Wars explores how we got here. Focusing in on California's schools during the 1960s and 1970s, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela charts how a state and a citizenry deeply committed to public education as an engine of civic and moral education navigated the massive changes brought about by the 1960s, including the sexual revolution, school desegregation, and a dramatic increase in Latino immigration. In California, where a volatile political culture nurtured both Orange County mega-churches and Berkeley coffeehouses, these changes reverberated especially powerfully. Analyzing two of the era's most innovative, nationally impactful, and never-before juxtaposed programs--Spanish-bilingual and sex education--Classroom Wars charts how during a time of extraordinary social change, grass-roots citizens politicized the schoolhouse and family. Many came to link such progressive educational programs not only with threats to the family and nation but also with rising taxes, which they feared were being squandered on morally lax educators teaching ethically questionable curricula. Using sources ranging from policy documents to personal letters, student newspapers, and oral histories, Petrzela reveals how in 1960s and 70s California--and the nation at large--a growing number of Americans fused values about family, personal, and civic morality, blurring the distinction between public and private and inspiring some of the fiercest classroom wars in American history, controversies that help explain the bitterness of the battles we continue to wage today.

Recenzii

Admirably and provocatively, Petrzela draws multiple connections between subjects often treated separately: between bilingual education and sex education; between bilingual education, sex education, and the property tax revolt that began in California and swept through the nation; between cultural politics in the classroom and fiscal politics over school funding; and between educational history/historiography and political history/historiography.
Classroom Wars is an intelligent, compelling study that connects the seemingly distant policies of bilingual education and sex education to shed new light on political culture. It is an excellent history that ingeniously challenges interpretive narrowness and will be influential in several different historical fields.
Extensive accounts of two critical issues in California public education in the late 1960s and 1970s-sex and Spanish bilingual education-are thoroughly vetted in this book by Petrzela ... Petrzela challenges dichotomies and examines paradoxes, contributing to an enlightening picture of a critical era in California public education ... Recommended.
In this carefully researched, empirically grounded, and elegantly written book, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela explores debates and politics of bilingual education and sex education in California at the origins of the 'culture wars.' She tells an engaging, accessible, and compelling history of these conflicts that has important implications for how we understand postwar American political culture and education, past and present. Scholars and students of education history, education policy, and postwar American politics and culture will want to read this book.
What's the matter with Kansas -- or with America -- and its endless culture wars? According to a common liberal refrain, contemporary conservatives have invoked hot-button cultural issues to persuade Americans to vote against their own economic interests. But that claim is itself a liberal conceit, ignoring the many ways that the American Right wove cultural and economic grievances into a cohesive and enduring ideology. No matter which way your own politics lean, you won't be able to understand modern American conservatism without reading Natalia Mehlman Petrzela's brave and original book.
Well-written and revealing ... Documents political conflict about schooling in California during the 1960s and 1970s ... Petrzela illuminates the shifting political terrain that made these issues so potent. Hers is a telling account of how schooling became a partisan enterprise, especially as educators widened the curricular and extracurricular aims.
Petrzela is one of the first scholars to bring together two flourishing bodies of historiography: the now massive literature on the rise of the modern American conservative movement and the smaller but expanding corpus of work on Latino/a Americans since the landmark 1965 Hart-Celler Act. That so few historians have yet to couple these two topics is surprising given that hostility to brown-skinned Mexican immigrants has become one of the defining sensibilities of contemporary American conservatism ... Breaks important new ground.
Petrzela offers a vivid, detailed historiographical account of the politically charged educational policy debates regarding bilingual education and sexual education in California.
The archival research ... brings recent and enduring educational controversies to life in Classroom Wars.
creative and insightful ... Petrzela has produced an important book about an understudied part of the culture wars. Her careful and thorough research makes numerous significant arguments relevant to both the past and the present. Thanks to this fine work, we will no longer be able to separate debates over sex-ed from those over bilingual education.

Notă biografică

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