Education and the Cold War : The Battle for the American School (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: An American Crisis 2. John Dewey and the Invention of Childhood: Progressive Education in the Beginning 3. Education as Great Depression Experience: The Unraveling of the Popular Front and the Roots of Educational Vigilantism 4. From Hot War to Cold War for Schools and Teenagers: The Life Adjustment Movement and the Ideology of Maturity 5. Communist Teacher Problematic: Liberal Anticommunism and the Education of Bella Dodd 6. Progressive Education is Red -ucation: Conservative Thought and Cold War Educational Vigilantism 7. Crisis of the Mind: The Liberal Intellectuals and the Schools 8. From World-Mindedness to Cold War-Mindedness: The Lost Educational Utopia of Theodore Brameld 9. Desegregation and its Discontents: The Perplexities of the Cold War Blackboard Jungle 10. Growing Up Absurd in the Cold War: Sputnik and the Polarized Sixties 11. Conclusion: The Educational Reproduction of the Cold War