In this series, I review what I take to be three of Neil Postman’s most influential works on education. First up (below) is Teaching as a Subversive Activity (1969), to be followed in part 2 by Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979), and finally part 3 will bring us to The End of Education (1995). Read More…
Series: Postman on Education
Neil Postman (1931-2003) was a writer, social critic, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Culture and Communication and at New York University. During his lifetime, he wrote popular works on childhood, technology, media, and education, often with a critical eye to contemporary culture and its future trajectory. In this series, I review what I take to be three of his most influential works on education.
Review: Teaching as a Conserving Activity by Neil Postman
What It’s About In part 1 of this series, we looked at Teaching as a Subversive Activity, in which Neil Postman and co-author Charles Weingartner make the case that the American public education system is in need of major reforms if it is to be effective in preparing students for the challenges of the ever-changing Read More…
Review: The End of Education by Neil Postman
What It’s About At last we’ve come to the end . . . the end of this blog series, of Neil Postman’s major works on education, and, perhaps, as the foreboding title of the present work suggests, of education itself, or at least one form of it. In The End of Education Postman makes the Read More…