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Propaganda and Public Pedagogy
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Propaganda and Public Pedagogy

Philip Graham
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education
Oxford University Press
2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.1405
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Specialist Studies in Education propaganda education public pedagogy Dewey pragmatism
Propaganda and public pedagogy are brought together here to demonstrate how the two terms are related and what they mean for the future of critical education research once considered together. The two terms describe educational processes on a mass scale, with the suggestion that they are in fact describing "the same thing" to some large degree. The focus here is upon the United States context, especially between the turn of the 20th century and the present day. The context is important because it was central to how propaganda and public pedagogy have developed their contemporary evaluative semantics, with propaganda being "bad" and public pedagogy being "good". Propaganda and education are rarely mentioned together, other than by propagandists, or in cases where propaganda is typically treated as a kind of cultural "swear word". I conclude here some understanding of the techniques of propaganda, and more importantly an organised normative program, are required for public pedagogy to reach its stated aims.

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