Defending Left Pedagogy: U.S. Communist Schools Fight Back against the SACB (Subversive Activities Control Board)...and Lose (1953-1957)

Autor/in	Gettleman, Marvin E.
Titel	Defending Left Pedagogy: U.S. Communist Schools Fight Back against the SACB (Subversive Activities Control Board)...and Lose (1953-1957)
Quelle	In: Convergence, 41 (2008) 2-3, S.193-209 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-8146
Schlagwörter	Politics of Education; Political Issues; Continuing Education; Social Sciences; Labor; United States History; Social Systems; Adult Education; Educational Change; Federal Legislation; Court Litigation; Federal Government; Social Change; California; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Politischer Faktor; Weiterbildung; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Social system; Soziales System; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Bildungsreform; Bundesrecht; Rechtsstreit; Bundesregierung; Sozialer Wandel; Kalifornien
Abstract	During the 1940s and 1950s the U.S. Communist Party upgraded and broadened its adult education schools, abandoning or ideologically modifying the militant pedagogical centres that had sprung up during the 1920s and 1930s in many American cities. In New York the transformation was complicated as two Party schools (the Workers School and the School for Democracy) merged with each other to create in 1943 the Thomas Jefferson School of Social Science. The California Labor School in San Francisco was the West Coast counterpart of the Jefferson School. The extent of this Communist pedagogical empire may be news to people, since no adequate scholarly investigation has been made of what, between 1923 and 1957, was possibly the largest system of adult education in America--until non-Communist colleges discovered the cash cow of continuing education. Having written general descriptions of both the Jefferson and California Labor School elsewhere, the author shall explore in this paper some of the political and pedagogical battles that "ended" the Communist educational system during the period called (using inaccurate but irreplaceable vocabulary) McCarthyism. (Contains 53 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10