Teaching as a Subversive Activity

Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner

Delacorte Press, 1969 - Education - 219 pages

"A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods--with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world"--Jacket subtitle.

Contents

• Crap Detecting: 1
• The Medium Is the Message Of Course: 16
• The Inquiry Method: 25

About the author

Born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at the State University of New York and Columbia University, Neil Postman is a communications theorist, educator, and writer who has been deeply involved with the issue of the impact of the media and advanced communications technology on American culture. In his many books, Postman has strongly opposed the idea that technology will "save" humanity. In fact, he has focused on the negative ways in which television and computers alter social behavior. In his book Technopoly, Postman argues that the uncontrolled growth of technology destroys humanity by creating a culture with no moral structure. Thus, technology can be a dangerous enemy as well as a good friend. Postman, who is married and has three children, currently is a professor of media ecology at New York University and editor of Et Cetera, the journal of general semantics. In addition to his books, he has contributed to various magazines and periodicals, including Atlantic and The Nation. He has also appeared on the television program Sunrise Semester. Postman is the holder of the Christian Lindback Award for Excellence in Teaching from New YorkUniversity.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Teaching as a Subversive Activity
• Authors: Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Delacorte Press, 1969
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Oct 30, 2008
• ISBN: 044008556X, 9780440085560
• Length: 219 pages
• Subjects: Education / General