Chomsky on Democracy and Education

by Noam Chomsky, C.P. Otero (Editor)

Overview

Engaging and incisive, Chomsky on Democracy and Education is the first collection of writings, talks, and interviews, some previously unpublished, of his views on language, power, policy, and method in education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415926324
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/22/2002
Series:	Social Theory, Education, and Cultural Change
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Noam Chomsky has held professorships in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at M.I.T. and in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics, and he is equally renowned for his incisive writings on global affairs and U.S. foreign policy. Chomsky has written more than 100 books, including the bestselling political works Hegemony or Survival, Failed States, and Who Rules the World?.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Democracy and Education (October 1994)
I. Science: The Genetic Endowment
1. Things No Amount of Learning Can Teach (November 1983)
2. Language as a Key to Human Nature and Society (1975)
3. A Really New Way of Looking at Language (November 1987)
4. Perspectives on Language and Mind (October 1999)
II. Anthropology: The Cultural Environment (Vision and Reality)
5. Rationality/Science and Post-This-or-That (1992)
6. Equality: Language Development, Human Intelligence, and Social Organization (1976)
7. Two Conceptions of Social Organization (February 16, 1970)
8. Some Tasks for Responsible People (1969)
9. Toward a Humanistic Conception of Education (April 1970)
10. The Function of the University in a Time of Crisis (1969)
11. Scholarship and Commitment, Then and Now (December 1999)
12. The Mechanisms and Practices of Indoctrination (December 1984)
13. The Task of the Media: Central America as a Test Case (April 1989)
14. Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind (February 1997)
15. Prospects for Democracy (March 1994)
III. The Educational Institutions
16. Some Thoughts on Intellectuals and the Schools (June 1966)
17. The Responsibility of a University Community (May 31, 1969)
18. Remarks Before the MIT Commission on MIT Education (November 1969)
19. Two Roles of the American University (1997)
20. The Universities and the Corporations (May 1973)
IV. Language in the Classroom
21. Some Observations on the Teaching of Language (September 1969)
22. Language Theory and Language Teaching (August 1966)
23. Our Understanding of Language and the Curriculum (1964)
24. Language Theory and Language Use (1981)
25. Language, Politics, and Composition (1991)

Editorial Reviews

"Though one may differ with this interpretation of U.S. history, or his views on the downside of the global media, much of what this soft-spoken prophet says has a middle-of-the-night ring of truth. The possibility that Chomsky glimpses something the rest of us fail to see is the ultimate explanation for his place in the current intellectual pantheon." — The Globe and Mail

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