Foundations of Culture Wars in Education

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Foundations of Culture Wars in Education opens up dialogue anddebates over crucial political concerns. It touches on vital educational issuesincluding race, class, gender, philosophical, historical, multicultural andspiritual concerns.

Foundations of Culture Wars in Education builds its argumentson three essential themes:

• Pre-service teachers need to recognize themeaning of different viewpoints or ""paradigms"" of knowledge in order to makeinformed teaching decisions.
• Pre-service teachers need to make anauthoritative decision to ""educate"" students rather than ""school"" them.
• To be engaged in the ""culture wars"" and to""educate"" necessitates becoming a ""transformative intellectual"".