{"product_id":"old-schools-modernism-education-and-the-critique-of-progress-hardback-9780823286591","title":"Old Schools; Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress (Hardback) 9780823286591","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOld Schools\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eModernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRamsey McGlazer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823286591\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 January 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 15\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.516 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner: AAIS First Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOld Schools\u003c\/i\u003e marks out a modernist countertradition. The book makes sense of an apparent anachronism in twentieth-century literature and cinema: a fascination with outmoded, paradigmatically pre-modern educational forms that persists long after they are displaced in progressive pedagogical theories.\u003cbr\u003e Advocates of progressive education turned against Latin in particular. The dead language—taught through time-tested means including memorization, recitation, copying out, and other forms of repetition and recall—needed to be updated or eliminated, reformers argued, so that students could breathe free and become modern, achieving a break with convention and constraint. \u003cbr\u003e Yet McGlazer's remarkable book reminds us that progressive education was championed not only by political progressives, but also by Fascists in Italy, where it was an object of Gramsci's critique. Building on Gramsci's pages on the Latin class, McGlazer shows how figures in various cultural vanguards, from Victorian Britain to 1970s Brazil, returned to and reimagined the old school.\u003cbr\u003e Strikingly, the works that McGlazer considers valorize this school's outmoded techniques even at their most cumbersome and conventional. Like the Latin class to which they return, these works produce constraints that feel limiting but that, by virtue of that limitation, invite valuable resistance. As they turn grammar drills into verse and repetitious lectures into voiceovers, they find unlikely resources for critique in the very practices that progressive reformers sought to clear away.\u003cbr\u003e Registering the past's persistence even while they respond to the mounting pressures of modernization, writers and filmmakers from Pater to Joyce to Pasolini retain what might look like retrograde attachments—to tradition, transmission, scholastic rites, and repetitive forms. But the counter-progressive pedagogies that they devise repeat the past to increasingly radical effect\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eOld Schools\u003c\/i\u003e teaches us that this kind of repetition can enable the change that it might seem to impede.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: On Counter- Progressive Pedagogy   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. \u003c\/b\u003eSurviving \u003ci\u003eMarius\u003c\/i\u003e: Pater's Mechanical Exercise   25\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e Among \u003ci\u003eFanciulli\u003c\/i\u003e: Poetry, Pedantry, and Pascoli's \u003ci\u003ePaedagogium\u003c\/i\u003e   59\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3.\u003c\/b\u003e \"Copied Out Big\": Instruction in Joyce's \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e   89\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSalò\u003c\/i\u003e and the School of Abuse   114\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5.\u003c\/b\u003e Schooling in Ruins: Glauber Rocha's Rome   137\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e   161\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   165\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   219\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580356981016,"sku":"9780823286591","price":72.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/old-schools-modernism-education-and-the-critique-of-progress-hardback-9780823286591","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}