
Reframing the Subject
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In this study, Kelly Ritter offers an extensive theoretical analysis of the alliance of the value systems inherent in mental hygiene films (class-based ideals, democracy, patriotism) with writing education-an alliance that continues today by way of the mass digital technologies used in teaching online. She further details the larger material and cultural forces at work in the production of these films behind the scenes and their effects on education trends.
Through her examination of literacy theory, instructional films, policy documents, and textbooks of the late 1940s to mid-1950s, Ritter demonstrates a reliance on pedagogies that emphasize institutional ideologies and correctness over epistemic complexity and de-emphasize the role of the student in his or her own learning process. To Ritter, these practices are sustained in today's pedagogies and media that create a false promise of social uplift through formalized education, instead often resulting in negative material consequences.
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- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Sometimes We Expect Great Things
- 1. Social Inequalities and the Enterprise of Schooling
- 2. Wartime Literacies and the Curricular Tensions of Democracy
- 3. Mediating Literacies: The Postwar Literacy Sponsorship of Composition Textbooks and Instructional Films
- 4. Modeling Social Literacies on Film: Coronet Instructional Films and Class Maintenance
- 5. Enacting Literacies: Current-Traditionalism via Coronet's Role-Play
- 6. The Rhetorical Economies of Mass Literacy Instruction in the Twenty-First Century: A Critical Observation
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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