Pedagogy: Disturbing History, 1820-1930 (Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture) by Salvatori, Mariolina Rizzi [Editor] - 2003-09-01

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9" X 6". xx, 371pp. Rubbing, bumps, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Price sticker to front cover. Faint spots of toning to top edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Pedagogy, both the discipline and the word itself, has had a tortured history. It has been used as a synonym for practice and acquired negative connotations that confuse it with pedantry, conferring low status on those associated with it (schoolteachers and professors of education). In the 1880s, for example, most university professors of pedagogy made a concerted effort to replace the term with education. In the 1960s, however, pedagogy surfaced again as an alternative to education in academic departments that had once openly ridiculed it. But pedagogy's fractured meaning cannot be explained away as a matter of technical jargon or political fashion. To do so conceals the power… Read More

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, 2003. Paperback. New. new edition edition. 394 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.25 inches.

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University of Pittsburgh Press. Paperback. New. 9x6x1.