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Book SynopsisBy investigating how laws, myths, national aspirations, and global relations have recast and, at times, distorted the key purposes of education, this pathbreaking book sheds light on the role of ignorance in shaping ideas, public opinion, and policy.
Trade Review. . . this volume makes an important contribution by prompting and inviting readers to take matters forward in their own engagement with the problem of ignorance. Even in titling the book “Miseducation” Angulo plants the seeds for exciting debate and discussion about what it might mean for historians to identify that which has been mis-educative across time and space — and on what grounds we are able to identify and understand this.
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Historical Studies in Education/Revue d'histoire de l'éducationTable of ContentsIgnorance 1
A. J. Angulo
PART I: Legalizing Ignorance
1 Slavery 13
Kim Tolley
2 Sex 34
Jennifer Burek Pierce and Matt Pierce
3 Sexuality 52
Karen Graves
4 Evolution 73
Adam R. Shapiro
5 Environment 96
Kevin C. Elliott
PART II: Mythologizing Ignorance
6 Class 123
Daniel Perlstein
7 Identity 140
Eileen H. Tamura
8 Religion 161
Adam Laats
9 History 184
Donald Warren
PART III: Nationalizing and Globalizing Ignorance
10 US 217
Lisa Jarvinen
11 Germany 244
Lisa Pine
12 USSR 268
E. Thomas Ewing
13 Israel 295
Soli Vered and Daniel Bar- Tal
14 China 319
Dongping Han and Stephen Samuel Smith
Refl ections 339
A. J. Angulo
Acknowledgments 351
Contributors 355
Index 363
