Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language,

Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education
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In a series of feisty and ultimately hopeful essays, one of America's sharpest social critics casts a shrewd eye over contemporary culture to reveal the worst -- and the best -- of our habits of discourse, tendencies in education, and obsessions with technological novelty. Readers will find themselves rethinking many of their bedrock assumptions: Should education transmit culture or defend us against it? Is technological innovation progress or a peculiarly American addiction? When everyone watches the same television programs -- and television producers don't discriminate between the audiences for Sesame Street and Dynasty -- is childhood anything more than a sentimental concept? Writing in the traditions of Orwell and H.L. Mencken, Neil Postman sends shock waves of wit and critical intelligence through the cultural wasteland.
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Paperback
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Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 1992-03-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780679734215

Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education