Cultural Miseducation: In Search of a Democratic Solution

by Jane Roland Martin

In this engaging and accessible volume, Jane Roland Martin develops a brilliantly innovative approach to education that illuminates one of the most pressing issues of our day—the passing down of “cultural liabilities,” such as violence in the home, school, and world at large and hatred of other races, religions, genders, ethnicities, or sexual orientations. By encouraging readers to look at education from the standpoint of culture, new questions How is a culture’s wealth to be defined? Who is qualified to contribute to it? How can we preserve a culture’s assets for the next generation? Cultural Miseducation :

176 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2002

About the author

Jane Roland Martin was born in 1929, the child of a newspaper man and a home economics teacher. She attended the Little Red Schoolhouse and the Elizabeth Irwin High School in New York City. The "progressive education" that she received at these schools had an impact on her future writings. In 1951, she graduated from Radcliffe with a major in Political Theory. Martin was an elementary school teacher, later completing her Ph.D. in philosophy and education at Radcliffe. Martin continued her career in education and philosophy, holding several adjunct faculty positions until landing in the undergraduate philosophy department at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where she became professor emerita.