Background
Perkinson, Henry was born on November 27, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
( A highly original interpretation of the history of West...)
A highly original interpretation of the history of Western culture that presents a first in-depth analysis of the cultural impact of communication. Explains how the media have helped bring about economic, political, social, and intellectual progress. Adopting the currently unfashionable theory that Western culture has improved over time, Perkinson argues that media of communication have played a pivotal role in helping to make things better. He shows how human speech, when it first emerged, enabled people both to understand better the world they inhabited and to construct political, economic, and social arrangements that improved their life chances. With the invention of writing in Sumer, and especially following the invention of the phonetic alphabet in Greece, people were able to devise even better understandings and improved arrangements. The invention of the printing press in the late 15th century led to the creation of the modern nation state, capitalism, an open society, and modern science. According to this novel interpretation, media of communication encode the existing culture, thereby enabling people to become critical of it in ways not possible before. This criticism uncovers inadequacies, which, when eliminated, result in an improved culture. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of the history of communications and Western civilization.
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(This short history of American Education examines our nat...)
This short history of American Education examines our nation's peculiar faith in the power of its schools to solve its various social problems. Focusing mainly on the post Civil War period, it shows how our early public school system was used in an attempt to solve such problems as racial inequality, urban decay, unemployment, and nationalization. It also shows how later problems such as overpopulation, AIDS, environmental pollution, drugs, automobile safety, crime, and cultural discrimination have been put on the school's agenda. In a new concluding section, Professor Perkinson discusses why the public schools have not solved these broad social problems and why they should not be expected to do so.
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(The developments that have characterized American educati...)
The developments that have characterized American educational history in terms of our attempts to use the school to solve social, economic, and political problems.
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(A penetrating analysis of the theories of those educators...)
A penetrating analysis of the theories of those educators who have shaped and determined the structure, the policies and the practices of American education. Originally published in 1976 by Longman.
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(This work addresses the social and cultural aspects of co...)
This work addresses the social and cultural aspects of computing. Its perspective is that computers encode the world mathematically and statistically, and that this knowledge has resulted in an increased awareness of risks in all sectors of social life, making people avoid risk.
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Perkinson, Henry was born on November 27, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Graduate University of Pennsylvania, 1952. Graduated from Harvard University, 1954-1959. Students without Purposes, 1993, How Things Got Better, 1995, Number Safety in Numbers, 1995.
Member faculty Kent State University, Ohio, 1959—1963, New York University, New York City, since 1963. Professor history of education. Served with United States Army, Korea.
(The developments that have characterized American educati...)
(A penetrating analysis of the theories of those educators...)
( A highly original interpretation of the history of West...)
(This short history of American Education examines our nat...)
(This work addresses the social and cultural aspects of co...)
Member faculty Kent State University, Ohio, 1959-1963. Member of faculty New York University, New York City, 1963, now professor of history of education. Served with United States.Army, 1952-1954, of Korea.
Married, March 28, 1953. 5 children.