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Compulsory Miseducation, the Glossary

Compulsory Miseducation is a critique of American public schools written by Paul Goodman and published by Horizon Press in 1964.^[1]

52 relations: Alternative education, Apprenticeship, Bourgeoisie, Commonweal (magazine), Community service, Community spirit, Deschooling, Edgar Z. Friedenberg, Education, Education in the United States, Eli M. Oboler, Everett Reimer, Folk high school, Fortnight (magazine), Free school movement, Gradgrind, Greenwood Publishing Group, Growing Up Absurd, Henry VIII, Herbert R. Kohl, Humanism, Informal education, Ivan Illich, James B. Conant, John Keats (writer), Jules Henry, Library Journal, Marianne Moore, Neil Postman, New Society, New York Herald Tribune, Nouveau riche, Paul Goodman, Paulo Freire, PDK International, Penguin Books, Petite bourgeoisie, Philistines, R. R. Bowker, Random House, Social class, Social class in the United States, Social criticism, Taylor & Francis, Teachers College Record, The Community of Scholars, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The Reporter (magazine), ... Expand index (2 more) »
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Alternative education

Alternative education encompasses educational philosophy differing from mainstream pedagogy and evidence-based education.

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Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship is a system for training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading).

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Bourgeoisie

The bourgeoisie are a class of business owners and merchants which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between peasantry and aristocracy.

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Commonweal (magazine)

Commonweal is a liberal Catholic journal of opinion, edited and managed by lay people, headquartered in New York City.

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Community service is selfless work performed by a person or group of people for the benefit and betterment of their community contributing to a noble cause.

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Community spirit finds expression in individual or group activities in which members of a community choose to engage for the benefit of that community.

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Deschooling

Deschooling is a term invented by Austrian philosopher Ivan Illich.

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Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Edgar Zodaig Friedenberg (March 18, 1921 – June 1, 2000) was an American scholar of education and gender studies best known for The Vanishing Adolescent (1959) and Coming of Age in America (1965).

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Education

Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.

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Education in the United States

In the United States, education is provided in public and private schools and by individuals through homeschooling.

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Eli Martin Oboler (September 26, 1915 – June 15, 1983) was an American librarian who worked as the longtime librarian at the Idaho State University library, later renamed the Eli M. Oboler Library, from 1949 to 1980.

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Everett Reimer

Everett W. Reimer (1910–1998) was an education theorist who authored several books on educational policy and was a proponent of deschooling.

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Folk high school

Folk high schools (also adult education center, folkehøjskole; volkshogeschool; kansanopisto and työväenopisto or kansalaisopisto; Volkshochschule and (a few) Heimvolkshochschule; folkehøgskole, folkehøgskule; Universidad popular; folkhögskola; Uniwersytet ludowy; népfőiskola) are institutions for adult education that generally do not grant academic degrees, though certain courses might exist leading to that goal.

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Fortnight (magazine)

Fortnight was a monthly political and cultural magazine published in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Free school movement

The free school movement, also known as the new schools or alternative schools movement, was an American education reform movement during the 1960s and early 1970s that sought to change the aims of formal schooling through alternative, independent community schools.

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Gradgrind

Thomas Gradgrind is the notorious school board Superintendent in Dickens's 1854 novel Hard Times who is dedicated to the pursuit of profitable enterprise.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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Growing Up Absurd

Growing Up Absurd is a 1960 book by Paul Goodman on the relationship between American juvenile delinquency and societal opportunities to fulfill natural needs. Compulsory Miseducation and Growing Up Absurd are books by Paul Goodman and Random House books.

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Henry VIII

Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547.

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Herbert R. Kohl

Herbert Ralph Kohl (born August 22, 1937) is an American educator best known for his advocacy of progressive alternative education and as the author of more than thirty books on education.

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Humanism

Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential, and agency of human beings, whom it considers the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry.

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Informal education

Informal education is a general term for education that can occur outside of a traditional lecture or school based learning systems.

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Ivan Illich

Ivan Dominic Illich (4 September 1926 – 2 December 2002) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic.

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James B. Conant

James Bryant Conant (March 26, 1893 – February 11, 1978) was an American chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany.

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John Keats (writer)

John C. Keats (1921 – November 3, 2000) was an American writer and biographer.

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Jules Henry

Jules Henry (November 29, 1904 – September 23, 1969) was an American anthropologist.

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Library Journal

Library Journal is an American trade publication for librarians.

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Marianne Moore

Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor.

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Neil Postman

Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) was an American author, educator, media theorist and cultural critic, who eschewed digital technology, including personal computers, mobile devices, and cruise control in cars, and was critical of uses of technology, such as personal computers in school.

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New Society

New Society was a weekly magazine of social inquiry and social and cultural comment, published in the United Kingdom from 1962 to 1988.

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New York Herald Tribune

The New York Herald Tribune was a newspaper published between 1924 and 1966.

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Nouveau riche

paren), new rich or new money (in contrast to old money; vieux riche) is a social class of the rich whose wealth has been acquired within their own generation, rather than by familial inheritance. These people previously had belonged to a lower social class and economic stratum (rank) within that class and the term implies that the new money, which constitutes their wealth, allowed upward social mobility and provided the means for conspicuous consumption, the buying of goods and services that signal membership in an upper class.

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Paul Goodman

Paul Goodman (September 9, 1911 – August 2, 1972) was an American writer and public intellectual best known for his 1960s works of social criticism.

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Paulo Freire

Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (19 September 1921 – 2 May 1997) was a Marxist Brazilian educator and philosopher who was a leading advocate of critical pedagogy.

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PDK International

PDK International (also known as PDK or Phi Delta Kappa International) is an international professional organization for educators.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.

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Petite bourgeoisie

Petite bourgeoisie (literally 'small bourgeoisie'; also anglicised as petty bourgeoisie) is a term that refers to a social class composed of semi-autonomous peasants and small-scale merchants.

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Philistines

The Philistines (Pəlīštīm; LXX: Phulistieím; Philistaei) were an ancient people who lived on the south coast of Canaan during the Iron Age in a confederation of city-states generally referred to as Philistia.

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R. R. Bowker

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Random House

Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.

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A social class or social stratum is a grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the working class, middle class, and upper class.

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Social class in the United States refers to the idea of grouping Americans by some measure of social status, typically by economic status.

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Social criticism is a form of academic or journalistic criticism focusing on social issues in contemporary society, in respect to perceived injustices and power relations in general. Compulsory Miseducation and social criticism are social commentary.

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Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals.

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Teachers College Record

Teachers College Record is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal of education that was established in 1900.

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The Community of Scholars is a 1962 book about higher education by Paul Goodman with his observations on its function and proposals for its future. Compulsory Miseducation and The Community of Scholars are books by Paul Goodman and Random House books.

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The Nation

The Nation is a progressive American monthly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.

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The New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.

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The New York Times Book Review

The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed.

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The Reporter (magazine)

The Reporter was an American biweekly news magazine published in New York City from 1949 through 1968.

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Value (ethics and social sciences)

In ethics and social sciences, value denotes the degree of importance of some thing or action, with the aim of determining which actions are best to do or what way is best to live (normative ethics in ethics), or to describe the significance of different actions.

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Youth work

Youth work is a community support activity aimed at older children and adolescents.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_Miseducation

Also known as Compulsory Mis-education.

, Value (ethics and social sciences), Youth work.

Compulsory Miseducation, the Glossary

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See also

Books about the sociology of education

Books by Paul Goodman

Horizon Press books

References