Teaching Values: Critical Perspectives on Education, Politics, and Culture

by Scapp,Ron

• ISBN13: 9780415931076
• ISBN10: 041593107X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-10-25
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

Grounding theoretical knowledge in practical examples,Teaching Valueswrests the discussion of values education away from traditionalists and presents readers with a unique perspective on education, politics and culture. Based on current issues, Ron Scapp addresses topics ranging from multicultural education to the impact of postmodernism on contemporary pedagogy, from power in the classroom to questions of masculinity. While challenging the right's domination of values education, Scapp also examines some issues not typically raised by educators and critics on the left, including the positive role of citizenship and national identity in American education and culture. This provocative work takes an important step forward in the debate on education and politics.

Author Biography

Ron Scapp is Director of the Graduate Program in Urban and Multicultural Education at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, the Bronx, where he also teaches Cultural Theory, Multiculturalism, and Philosophy of Education

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(18)
When the Truth Is Gone	19	(22)
Teaching in an Age of Uncertainty
Happy to Be Nappy	41	(24)
From Substandard to Nonstandard English	65	(24)
Getting beyond the Morality of Speaking Right
Go Tell it on the Mount	89	(20)
But Is He Straight?	109	(24)
Identity, Teaching, and the Simple Acts of Privilege
Why Multiculturalism (Still)?	133	(28)
Epilogue	161	(18)
Teaching in an Extra-Moral Sense
Bibliography	179	(6)
Index	185