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Author Jordan, William A. (William Amos)

Title Crossfire education : metaphor, cultural evolution, and chaos in the schools / William A. Jordan
Published Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [1996]
©1996

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 W'PONDS  370.19340973 Jor/Cem  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Ch. 1. Incentives for Change -- Ch. 2. The Blinding Light of Greece: Their Light, Our Blindness -- Ch. 3. Communication and Changing Society: The Shifting Gears of Awareness -- Ch. 4. Network Culture: From Melting Pot to Salad Bar -- Ch. 5. Defining the Educational Metaphors: Traditional, Industrial, and Communicative -- Ch. 6. Cultural War in the Schools -- Ch. 7. Communication, Cultural Evolution and Schools: The Matrix -- Ch. 8. Educational Demise: The Rise of Productivity and Accountability or Backwards to the Basics -- Ch. 9. Communicative Education or Just Say Know -- Ch. 10. Redefining Schools -- Ch. 11. Rhetoric, Reading and Culture -- Ch. 12. The Communicative School -- Ch. 13. Communicative Administration -- Ch. 14. Curricular Content -- Ch. 15. Teachers -- Ch. 16. The Final Exam - The Healing of Wounds -- Epilogue: My Thoughts on a Last Trip Around the Matrix
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-226) and index
Subject Education -- Aims and objectives -- United States.
Education -- Social aspects -- United States.
Educational anthropology -- United States.
Educational change -- United States.
School management and organization -- United States.
LC no. 95044353
ISBN 0761801685 (cloth : alk. paper)
0761801693 (paper : alk. paper)