Achievement Culture & The American Dream: Who Matters

Catalog description

The course description should also be updated to: This course examines the historical relationship between education, the American Dream, and achievement culture. Students explore how individualism, capitalism, and self-sufficiency have shaped education and connect these foundations to today’s toxic achievement culture. Key questions frame the course: Who has mattered in shaping education? How does mattering buffer against toxic achievement culture? Why is mattering essential for understanding educational history and current culture? Satisfies Liberal Arts CORE, Societies and Social Sciences for Steinhardt students.