Schoolhouse Politics tells the story of a unique experiment in curriculum design in the 1960s. In an attempt to teach anthropology to ten-year-olds, Jerome Bruner and his colleagues designed Man: A Course of Study (MACOS), an elementary school course that combined pioneering fieldwork on the social behavior of baboons, a film-based ethnographic study of an Eskimo tribe, and novel "hands on" classroom materials. Soon after its debut, MACOS was hailed as an original and exciting way to promote science literacy and to teach young people how to think like social scientists. Teachers and students...