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Quest . (2021) 34.4 DOI 10. 51845/34 .4.17  \nThe Art of Teaching and the End of Wokeness  \nAdam Ellwanger  \nAny enthusiast of classical liberal education will be much dismayed at the current state of education in America, both in K-12 schools and our colleges and universities. In addition to the schools’ incessant propagation of the modern leftist worldview, there is the new war against standardized means of assessing student performance—and even a growing conviction that any formal measure of academic success is a way of perpetuating the injustices of the “status quo.”  \nFor over thirty years, when surveying the unfolding crisis in the nation’s schools, conservatives and their allies have centered their critique on matters of curriculum. Almost without exception their arguments revolve around the conviction that we are teaching the wrong things, and the solutions that they propose usually consist of recommitting ourselves to teaching the right things. These critics aren’t wrong. American students are being taught the wrong things. History has been reduced to a cataloguing of Euro-American failure, injustice, and violence. Literature serves as a springboard from which to launch attacks on “uninterrogated” traditional values and “assumptions.” Social studies are now a vehicle for gender ideology and Critical Race Theory, which teaches a moralistic race essentialism where whites are de facto bigoted oppressors and minorities are virtuous victims of “systemic” brutality and hatred. In the wake of the racial unrest in the summer of 2020, some public schools have abandoned advanced mathematics courses on the grounds that they marginalize minorities.1  \nSuffice it to say, then, that there are many ways in which the curriculum can be improved. Nevertheless, focusing on curricular concerns as a way to “reclaim” the schools is a deeply misguided approach. The conservative fetishization of the whats of American education (i.e. , considerations of what  \n1 Mica Soellner,“Virginia to Drop Advanced Math Courses Before 11th Grade, Citing Equity,” Washington Examiner (April 23, 2021) .  \nAdam Ellwanger is a professor of English at the University of Houston–Downtown. Ellwanger teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in rhetoric and composition.. His latest book is Metanoia: Rhetoric, Authenticity, and the Transformation of the Self (Penn State University Press, 2020) .  \nis being taught) is largely responsible for the success of the left in conquering these institutions. Put simply, an exclusive focus on the whats has been self-defeating, because the left’s successes in turning schools into houses of political indoctrination were largely achieved by ignoring the question of content: their victory was secured through an elevation of style over substance, of form over content. Their conquest was achieved through a resolute dedication to the howsof schooling; that is, the methods by which content is conveyed to students and how teaching techniques and strategies can be instrumentalized to serve ideological ends. They also devoted themselves to changing how the schools are run at the administrative and procedural levels. This elevation of the hows over the whats allowed the political left to take over education at a time when their activists were a minority within what was then a culturally conservative institution. This hostile takeover was consolidated mainly throughout the 1980s. By the time that educational reformer William Bennett was appointed to the post of Secretary of Education by Ronald Reagan in 1985, many were sounding the alarm that American schools were in intellectual decline.2 But by then, the left’s alternate model of education had already substantially dislodged the older model that had been defined by strict standards and rigorous monitoring of student performance. By the mid-1990s, the new educational order had received the tacit (if oft-unspoken) approval of administrators and school boards.  \nIn what follows, I high","cbCaiu3rNvZwbxck","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiu3rNvZwbxck","pdf",274219,"English","# Introduction\n## Curriculum and the Limits of “Reclaiming” Schools\n## Procedure and Pedagogy: The Case for Methodological Discussion\n# Conservative Impotence\n## Allan Bloom and the Fixation on Content","[{\"question\":\"Why does the essay criticize focusing on curriculum “whats”?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that an exclusive emphasis on what is taught is self-defeating because the left’s educational success came from controlling the “how” of schooling through methods, pedagogy, and administrative practices.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the essay explain the left’s takeover of education?\",\"answer\":\"It claims the left elevated style over substance and dedicated itself to changing teaching techniques and the way schools are run procedurally, enabling influence even when activists were a minority.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the essay propose instead of curriculum-only reform?\",\"answer\":\"It calls for urgently-needed discussion of how extra-curricular and methodological elements of education can be used as forms of political resistance, centered on procedure and pedagogy.\"}]","The Art of Teaching and the End of Wokeness | PDF",1792064738,18]