Education and the Cold War The Battle for the

Shortly after the Russians launched Sputnik in 1957, Hannah Arendt quipped that 'only in America could a crisis in education actually become a factor in politics. ' The Cold War battle for the American school - dramatized but not initiated by Sputnik - proved Arendt correct. The schools served as a battleground in the ideological conflicts of the 1950s. Beginning with the genealogy of progressive education, and ending with the formation of New Left and New Right thought, Education and the Cold War offers a fresh perspective on the postwar transformation in U.S. Political culture by way of an examination of the educational history of that era.

Andrew Hartman is Assistant Professor of History at Illinois State University and the author of numerous published articles in journals such as Race and Class, Third World Quarterly, Poverty and Race, Socialism and Democracy, Teachers College Record, and Zmagazine. He is a former public school teacher.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Education and the Cold War: An American Crisis	p. 1
John Dewey and the Invention of Childhood: Progressive Education in the Beginning	p. 7
Education and the Great Depression: The Unraveling of the Popular Front and the Roots of Educational Vigilantism	p. 29
From Hot War to Cold War for Schools and Teenagers: The Life Adjustment Movement as Therapy for the Immature	p. 55
The Communist Teacher Problematic: Liberal Anticommunism and the Education of Bella Dodd	p. 73
Progressive Education is Red-ucation: Conservative Thought and Cold War Educational Vigilantism	p. 91
A Crisis of the Mind: The Liberal Intellectuals and the Schools	p. 117
From World-Mindedness to Cold War-Mindedness: The Lost Educational Utopia of Theodore Brameld	p. 137
Desegregation as Cold War Experience: The Perplexities of Race in the Blackboard Jungle	p. 157
Growing Up Absurd in the Cold War: Sputnik and the Polarized Sixties	p. 175
Conclusion: The Educational Reproduction of the Cold War	p. 197
Notes	p. 203
Bibliography	p. 237
Index	p. 245
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