In the Shadow of Authoritarianism: American Education in the Twentieth Century

by Thomas D. Fallace

In the Shadow of Authoritarianism explores how American educators, in the wake of World War I, created a student-centered curriculum in response to authoritarian threats abroad. For most of the 20th century, American educators lived in the shadow of ideological, political, cultural, and existential threats (including Prussianism, propaganda, collectivism, dictatorship, totalitarianism, mind control, the space race, and moral relativity). To meet...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807759376
• ISBN13: 9780807759370
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"