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Old Schools - Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress (Hardcover)
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Old Schools - Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress (Hardcover)
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Winner: AAIS First Book Prize Old Schools 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Old Schools teaches us that this kind of repetition can
enable the change that it might seem to impede.
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