Education And The Cold War Book

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction: Education and the Cold War: An American Crisis     1
John Dewey and the Invention of Childhood: Progressive Education in the Beginning     7
Education and the Great Depression: The Unraveling of the Popular Front and the Roots of Educational Vigilantism     29
From Hot War to Cold War for Schools and Teenagers: The Life Adjustment Movement as Therapy for the Immature     55
The Communist Teacher Problematic: Liberal Anticommunism and the Education of Bella Dodd     73
Progressive Education is Red-ucation: Conservative Thought and Cold War Educational Vigilantism     91
A Crisis of the Mind: The Liberal Intellectuals and the Schools     117
From World-Mindedness to Cold War-Mindedness: The Lost Educational Utopia of Theodore Brameld     137
Desegregation as Cold War Experience: The Perplexities of Race in the Blackboard Jungle     157
Growing Up Absurd in the Cold War: Sputnik and the Polarized Sixties     175
Conclusion: The Educational Reproduction of the Cold War     197
Notes     203
Bibliography     237
Index     245