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Name: Teaching as a Subversive Activity

Author: Neil Postman
Year: 1969
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Genres/categories: Education, Non Fiction

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9780440085560
044008556X
A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods--with dramatic & practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world.
Introduction
Crap detecting
The medium is the message, of course
The inquiry method
Pursuing relevance
What's worth knowing?
Meaning making
Languaging
New teachers
City schools
New languages: the media-
Two alternatives
So what do you do now?
Strategies for survival
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