Schoolhouse Politics tells the story of a unique experiment in curriculum design in the 1960s. In an attempt to teach anthropology to ten-year-olds, Jerome Bruner and his colleagues designed Man: A Course of Study (MACOS), an elementary school course that combined pioneering fieldwork on the social behavior of baboons, a film-based ethnographic study of an Eskimo tribe, and novel "hands on" classroom materials. Soon after its debut, MACOS was hailed as an original and exciting way to promote science literacy and to teach young people how to think like social scientists. Teachers and students alike expressed enthusiasm for the dynamic nature of the course, and it achieved nationwide distribution and widespread recognition as one of the outstanding social science curriculum projects of the period. Yet by 1975, MACOS had been driven out from the schools, a casualty of a small but vocal group of conservatives critical of its content and methodology. Peter Dow, the MACOS project editor, offers a vivid insider's account of those heady post-Sputnik days of federally funded scholar-led curriculum innovation and of the ensuing controversy that undermined MACOS. MACOS demonstrated the power of student-directed learning or alternative strategies for stimulating inquiry and of nondidactic approaches to instruction. But the experience of designing and distributing the course also taught these innovators hard lessons about educational politics and the economics of American textbook development and publishing.
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Schoolhouse Politics, The Handmade Cadillac, The Perils of Innovation, Endicott House, National Science Foundation, Course of Study, Woods Hole, United States, Jerome Bruner, Garden Street, Education Directorate, Historical Perspectives, Reform Reconsidered, Jerrold Zacharias, Elting Morison, Lake City, Westinghouse Learning, Madison Park, National Science Board, Anita Mishler, Phyllis Musselman, Marilyn Clayton, Betsy Dunkman, Richard Jones, Chairman Teague Browse Sample Pages:
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- The Race for Space: The United States and the Soviet Union Compete for the New Frontier (People's History) by Betsy Kuhn on page 17, and Back Matter
- Sputnik: The Shock of the Century by Paul Dickson on page 225, and Back Matter
- Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film (Studies in Visual Culture) by E.D Lewis on page 72, and page 161
- Rules of the Game: Quiz Shows And American Culture by Olaf Hoerschelmann in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Who's in Charge Here: The Tangled Web of School Governance and Policy by Noel Epstein on page 159
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