Education and Society in the McGraw-Hill Reader
Reflect on how you understand at least how one of these writers asserting their ideas concerning terms of debate or disagreement— what cultural assumption do they address as tied to social behaviors, the cultural behaviors of the time period when they crafted these ideas. What “way of life” are they challenging?
I think you will find these fascinating and thought-provoking –as well as relevant to our modern current-day conflicts about the role and history of public of education, who gets to college and why.
please share one definition of controversy from the McGraw-Hill reader;
Douglass, “Learning to Read and Write”
Rodriguez, “The Lonely, Good Company of Books”
Rose, “What College Can Mean..”
Quindlen, “Sex Ed”
Bazelon, “The next Kind of Integrations”
Gerlernter, “The Myth of Computers”
Jacoby, “Girls Decide…”
Carson, “…Brown Vs. Board of Education…”
Reflect on how you understand at least how one of these writers asserting their ideas concerning terms of debate or disagreement— what controversy they address as tied to social behaviors, the cultural behaviors and values of the time period when they crafted these ideas. Choose one selection in CULTURE to distill or discern the controversy or the argument embedded in the essay “what is the problem”?
I think you will find these fascinating and thought-provoking and relevant to our modern current-day conflicts.
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these are some reflective questions that follow the readings that may assist, but also look over the questions and prompts that follow each essay or selection within Part Two: Culture
Now that you have read the selections in “Culture,” consider in what ways these writers have helped further inform your views of your own culture. CHOOSE THREE
“Reflections on the Nature of Culture”
To what extent do you feel you belong to a specific cultural group within the larger culture?
How does the way you formulate questions about cultural behavior color the answers you get?
How aware are you of your own specific cultural assumptions?
To what extent do these essays help you qualify your assumptions about
gender and sexuality?
What are the most important gender issues facing our culture today?
What forces seem to make major cultural changes in a modern nation?
Do you think cultural change happens revolutionarily or evolutionarily?
How do shifts in cultural values regarding women affect individuals in our
society?
How convinced are you that in any society justice must act fairly for all
citizens?
What are the most important clashes in values currently shaping our
culture?
