It is the basics but you have always had ideology seeping in. Look at the McGuffey Readers and the huge influence they had. Among other thing they helped to popularize certain speeches and rhymes including Mary had a little lamb.
I believe at one point the temperance movement used public school books as a way to get their message across (…
It is the basics but you have always had ideology seeping in. Look at the McGuffey Readers and the huge influence they had. Among other thing they helped to popularize certain speeches and rhymes including Mary had a little lamb.
I believe at one point the temperance movement used public school books as a way to get their message across (of course you then had the complete back lash...so one could argue that sometimes these ideologically driven lessons backfire spectacularly -- actually one of my big concerns about CRT)
The whole problem of ideology infused schooling really became apparent in the 1930s and 40s with the experiences of Nazi Germany and the USSR. It is part of the reason why the Declaration of Human Rights says that parents have the right to educate their children in their own particular philosophy (how can you have freedom of religion if the state instils different moral values?)
But an increased emphasis the actual nuts and bolts of an education -- reading, writing and the arithmetic as the building blocks for a successful society would be good. And that will only happen when parents take an active role in their children's education and start questioning why their children are being taught certain things and being prepared to escalate it up.
My daughter has not forgotten when I made her use Jung Chang's biography of Mao as a counterweight in an essay to the material her history teacher gave out about 'the Great Leap forward'. The teacher and I then had a discussion about biased sources.
Any instructional reading material is inevitable going to demonstrate a bias of some kind, even if it is only toward the cultural norms of the society in which it was produced. But anything that could be classed as propaganda should never be used as instructional reading material.
It is the basics but you have always had ideology seeping in. Look at the McGuffey Readers and the huge influence they had. Among other thing they helped to popularize certain speeches and rhymes including Mary had a little lamb.
I believe at one point the temperance movement used public school books as a way to get their message across (of course you then had the complete back lash...so one could argue that sometimes these ideologically driven lessons backfire spectacularly -- actually one of my big concerns about CRT)
The whole problem of ideology infused schooling really became apparent in the 1930s and 40s with the experiences of Nazi Germany and the USSR. It is part of the reason why the Declaration of Human Rights says that parents have the right to educate their children in their own particular philosophy (how can you have freedom of religion if the state instils different moral values?)
But an increased emphasis the actual nuts and bolts of an education -- reading, writing and the arithmetic as the building blocks for a successful society would be good. And that will only happen when parents take an active role in their children's education and start questioning why their children are being taught certain things and being prepared to escalate it up.
My daughter has not forgotten when I made her use Jung Chang's biography of Mao as a counterweight in an essay to the material her history teacher gave out about 'the Great Leap forward'. The teacher and I then had a discussion about biased sources.
Any instructional reading material is inevitable going to demonstrate a bias of some kind, even if it is only toward the cultural norms of the society in which it was produced. But anything that could be classed as propaganda should never be used as instructional reading material.