![]() ![]() In Teaching as a Subversive Activity, Postman and co-author Charles Weingartner suggest that many schools have curricula that are trivial and irrelevant to students' lives. In 19, Postman collaborated with the New Rochelle educator Alan Shapiro on the development of a model school based on the principles expressed in Teaching as a Subversive Activity. ![]() Several of his articles were reprinted after his death in the quarterly journal, ETC.: A Review of General Semantics as part of a 75th anniversary edition in October 2013. He was also a contributing editor at The Nation. ![]() In 1976, Postman taught a course for NYU credit on CBS-TV's Sunrise Semester called "Communication: the Invisible Environment". He was the editor of the quarterly journal ETC: A Review of General Semantics from 1976 to 1986. Postman wrote 20 books and more than 200 magazine and newspaper articles in, for example, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, Time, Saturday Review, Harvard Educational Review, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Stern and Le Monde. "Life and Career of Neil Postman", January 14, 1988, C-SPAN They had three children and were longtime residents of Flushing. At the time, he had been married to his wife, Shelley Ross Postman, for 48 years. Postman died at age 72 of lung cancer at a hospital in Flushing, Queens, on October 5, 2003. He became the School of Education's only University Professor in 1993, and was chairman of the Department of Culture and Communication until 2002. In 1971, at NYU's Steinhardt School of Education, he founded a graduate program in media ecology. Soon after, in 1959, he began teaching at New York University (NYU). Postman took a position with San Francisco State University's English Department in 1958. At Teachers College, Columbia University, he was awarded a master's degree in 1955 and an Ed.D (Doctor of Education) degree in 1958. In 1953, he graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia and enlisted in the military but was released less than five months later. Postman was born in New York City, where he spent most of his life. He is best known for twenty books regarding technology and education, including Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), Conscientious Objections (1988), Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (1992), The Disappearance of Childhood (1982) and The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School (1995). Neil Postman (Ma– October 5, 2003) was an American author, educator, media theorist and cultural critic, who eschewed digital technology, including personal computers, mobile devices, and cruise control in cars, and was critical of uses of technology, such as personal computers in school. ![]()
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