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

     
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    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.

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    EAN/ISBN:
    9780679734215
    Edition:
    1st Vintage Books Ed
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    224
    Publication date:
    1992-03-03
    Publisher:
    Vintage
    Languages:
    english
    EAN/ISBN:
    9780679734215
    Edition:
    1st Vintage Books Ed
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    224
    Publication date:
    1992-03-03
    Publisher:
    Vintage
    Languages:
    english

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