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

by Neil Postman

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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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ISBN:

9780679734215

Author:

Postman, Neil

Publisher:

Vintage Books

Location:

New York :

Subject:

General

Subject:

United states

Subject:

Mass media

Subject:

Social aspects

Subject:

Technology

Subject:

Sociology - Social Theory

Subject:

Popular Culture

Subject:

Language and education

Subject:

Mass media -- United States.

Subject:

Technology -- Social aspects.

Subject:

General science

Subject:

Sociology - General

Edition Description:

Trade paper

Series:

Vintage

Series Volume:

143

Publication Date:

19920331

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Yes

Pages:

224

Dimensions:

8.00x5.21x.67 in. .57 lbs.

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