Education and the USA
Edited by Laurenz Volkmann
Hardback (Published)
(July 2011)
ISBN: 9783825359188
5.28 x 8.27 inches
Price: $61.00
Out of stock
The present volume explores the ramifications of the American education system and its representations in various media. It opens up new vistas on controversial transatlantic debates on education in the USA, critically reflecting on historical and contemporary developments in the USA and their impact on European perceptions of a model which for many seems worth emulating. The first section of contributions offers fresh perspectives on political, social, and theoretical concepts of higher education in the USA, specifically targeting issues such as diversity, political objectives, and ideological controversies with regard to education. The second section offers a discussion of important, though sometimes neglected, historical aspects and tendencies within the American system of education. The third section focuses on literary and media representations of education in the USA. In addition, a fourth section highlights the German perspective with a special emphasis on problems of didactic conceptualization and selection of US-relevant teaching matters and materials. The contributions by fourteen experts from this field represent a choice selection of papers presented at the 2009 Jena conference of the German Association of American Studies.
- Edited by Laurenz Volkmann
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Undoing Difference?
Race and Gender in Selected Works by Toni Morrison and Jeanette Winterson
Volume 224
There is More than One Site of Resistance
Ironie und Parodie im zeitgenossischen Roman der Chicanos/as
Volume 98
Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire’s Aesthetic Architecture of Revolt
An Axial Analysis
Volume 312
With a Barbarous Din
Race and Ethnic Encounter in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Volume 266
Voices of the Down and Out
The Dust Bowl Migration and the Great Depression in the Songs of Woody Guthrie
Volume 153
AlterNative Spaces
Constructions of Space in Native American and First Nations' Literatures
Volume 146
Kulturkontakt und Racial Presences
Afro-Amerikaner und die deutsche Amerika-Literatur, 1815-1914
Volume 126
Perspectives on Values
The Network of Satire and Humor, the Tragic and the Absurd, the Grotesque and the Monstrous, Play and Irony, Parody and the Comic Mode
Volume 323
Poetics of Politics
Textuality and Social Relevance in Contemporary American Literature and Culture
Volume 258
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