끝나지 않는 논쟁: 문화전쟁 이후의 미국교육을 둘러싼 논쟁 (The Controversy Continues: The Controversy over the American Education after the Culture Wars)

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초록

What has been changed within education since the culture wars? In
her article, “Education after the culture wars” published in Daedalus
in 2002, Diane Ravitch harshly criticizes education in American
schools. She contends that American schools are moving in the
direction of “cultural amnesia,” and no one knows how to reverse it.
The strange political dynamic represented by self-censorship practiced
by the educational publishing industry has robbed American
educational system of its coherence. As the result of the strange
political censorship, “the contentless curriculum” has been produced to
satisfy both the radial Left and the religious Right. Following “the
contentless curriculum,” American students have turned away from
thoughtful study of history, literature, and culture. Now America risks
losing “the common culture” needed to sustain a democratic society.
Ravitch’s article is followed by many responses. Among them this
paper pays attention to the five comments made by professors and
educators. Most commentators see that Ravitch deplores self-righteous
pedagogical censors properly. However they, as revisionists, disagree
with Ravitch’s fears that the common culture will disappear imminently.
The traditionalist idea that a common culture requires a common
curriculum is problematic, they believe. Also they repudiate her
insistence that a common curriculum is indispensable to a democratic
society. As seen in Catharine R. Stimpson’s comment, they place
much higher value on loyalty to the global society and intellectual
diversity, rather than to the American nation-state and democratic
order. The controversy over the school curriculum started in the
early 1990s has been carried into the new millennium. The
controversy over the school curriculum and its likely consequences
for American society continues.

영어초록

What has been changed within education since the culture wars? In
her article, “Education after the culture wars” published in Daedalus
in 2002, Diane Ravitch harshly criticizes education in American
schools. She contends that American schools are moving in the
direction of “cultural amnesia,” and no one knows how to reverse it.
The strange political dynamic represented by self-censorship practiced
by the educational publishing industry has robbed American
educational system of its coherence. As the result of the strange
political censorship, “the contentless curriculum” has been produced to
satisfy both the radial Left and the religious Right. Following “the
contentless curriculum,” American students have turned away from
thoughtful study of history, literature, and culture. Now America risks
losing “the common culture” needed to sustain a democratic society.
Ravitch’s article is followed by many responses. Among them this
paper pays attention to the five comments made by professors and
educators. Most commentators see that Ravitch deplores self-righteous
pedagogical censors properly. However they, as revisionists, disagree
with Ravitch’s fears that the common culture will disappear imminently.
The traditionalist idea that a common culture requires a common
curriculum is problematic, they believe. Also they repudiate her
insistence that a common curriculum is indispensable to a democratic
society. As seen in Catharine R. Stimpson’s comment, they place
much higher value on loyalty to the global society and intellectual
diversity, rather than to the American nation-state and democratic
order. The controversy over the school curriculum started in the
early 1990s has been carried into the new millennium. The
controversy over the school curriculum and its likely consequences
for American society continues.

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