NF For Young Readers that May not Know

[texcowboy1850]

To the young readers here, 5 terms you need to understand when researching a history book to read.
These 5 Twentieth -Century practices that now dominate the study of American history and its heroes.
academic collectivism=whereby writers and scholars quote each other and those of their peer group rather than consult original sources. Example: The Godless Constitution by Cornell professors Isaac Kramnick and Laurence Moore. Not a single academic citation in the book to any original source. or primary document

deconstructionism=the writer or scholars "tends to deemphasize or even efface (smear or malign) the subject" by posing "a continuous critique" to lay low what was once high." It is a steady flow of belittling and negative portrayals of Western Heroes, beliefs,values and institutions. Deconstructionism of American heroes,values and institutions which especially occurs in today's classrooms---is the reason most Americans can recite more of what's wrong with our nation than what's right. Deconstructionists make their living by telling only part of the story and spinning it negatively,manipulating others into supporting their views and objectives.example William Freehling's book, The Road to Disunion, Vol.1, Professor Hanson (A Classic War).The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History by Gary W. Gallagher and Alan T. Nolan

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deconstruction

Modernism= which examines historical events and persons AS IF they occurred and lived
today.
modernism
http://www.brighthubeducation.com/high-school-english-lessons/29453-modernism-in-literature/
Minimalism=which is an unreasonable insistence of oversimplification--on reducing everything to monolithic causes and linear effects.
Our culture insist on easy answers, but a persons life does not accommodate that demand. An individual is a extremely complicated, not to be flippantly stereotyped or compartmentalized. For example, Thomas Jefferson was probably much more complex than most historic individuals from his era. But many who write about him today try to conform him to a preshaped, preconceived, simplistic mold into which he does not fit. The image of Thomas Jefferson as presented by one modern writer will therefore often completely contradict the image presented by another, because each writer attempted to squeeze Jefferson into his or her own Minimalistic perception. Consequently, Minimaists portray Jefferson only as a racist,atheist, secularist, or whatever they believe will help their agenda.

Post-structuralism= Is marked by a rejection of totalizing, essentialist, foundationalist concepts "such as the reality of truth" or "the will of God". Attacking and pulling down what is traditionally honored, disregards absolutes and is a-historical, that is believing that nothing transcendent can be learned from history. Instead, meaning must be constructed by each individual for himself and historical meaning may shift and change on an individual's personal views.
http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-post-structuralism.htm


Father of Deconstrutionism
http://www.philosophybasics.com/movements_poststructuralism.html Poststructuralism
Father of Poststructuralism
Modernism

 

[dlofting]

I'm sorry but you lost me about half way through......are you sure you're directing this at younger readers. If so they must be a lot better at understanding abstract concepts than I am.

 

[Allie]

I'm thinking this should be subtitled "Justification for why Texas textbooks have no connection to reality," but that would be modern politics, so he's trying to avoid that by being so abstract that no one can understand what he's talking about.

 

[GELongstreet]

I think there's room for issue with both your definitions and the supplied assessment.

 

[JAGwinn]

texcowboy1850,
I for one did enjoy your post and can recall examples of such teaching in the past and also the present.
Thank you for the post. The agenda of some avenues of learning (other than skilled trades schools) seems intent on plowing up foundations and sowing seeds of discontent and scorn of all the lessons learned by man these past thousands of years - breaking away the milestones and pulling down the foundations.
Thanks for framing the problem so well.
John

 

[texcowboy1850]

I'm sorry but you lost me about half way through......are you sure you're directing this at younger readers. If so they must be a lot better at understanding abstract concepts than I am.

Sorry about that, I was ask to delete parts of the post. The part deleted would have explained some of the post.

 

[texcowboy1850]

texcowboy1850,
I for one did enjoy your post and can recall examples of such teaching in the past and also the present.
Thank you for the post. The agenda of some avenues of learning (other than skilled trades schools) seems intent on plowing up foundations and sowing seeds of discontent and scorn of all the lessons learned by man these past thousands of years - breaking away the milestones and pulling down the foundations.
Thanks for framing the problem so well.
John

Thanks, I appreciate your post. When I learned about these, it changed my way of selecting books to read.