Overview

Learning the Left examines the ways in which young people and adults learned (and continue to learn) the tenets of liberal politics in the United States through the popular media and the arts from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. This collection of essays foregrounds mass culture as an educational site; it is hoped that this focus on the history of the civic functions of the popular media and arts will begin a much-needed conversation among a variety of scholars, notably historians of education.

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Author:   Paul J. Ramsey
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Information Age Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.424kg
ISBN:  

9781681230542

ISBN 10:   1681230542
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   01 May 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Popular Culture, Learning, and the Left, Paul J. Ramsey. Chapter 1. Learning to Listen: Conflicts between Youth and Adults regarding the Phonograph in the Early-Twentieth Century, Jacob Hardesty. Chapter 2. Fanning the Flames of Discontent: Inciting Teachings of the Wobblies, Daniel Dethrow. Chapter 3. Teaching Children the Real Story: Oppositional Children's Literature, 1920–1940, Hani Morgan. Chapter 4. A Green Peace Tinted Red: Cold War America in The Boy with Green Hair, Peter W. Lee. Chapter 5. Learning the Political Left through Popular Novels: Howard Fast, Historical Fiction, and the Cold War, Paul J. Ramsey. Chapter 6. Pedagogy of the Radical Black Press, Khuram Hussain. Chapter 7. Learning the Underground: Plastic Childhood and Popular Culture, Marek Tesar. Chapter 8. Books Are Weapons in the War of Ideas: Educational Reform in Popular Texts, Richard Ognibene. Index.

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