Education and the Social Order

Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415079160
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 157

Book Description
Despite the disastrous failure of his one practical attempt to create a perfect school, Russell constantly strove to invent a system of education free from repression. Here Russell dissects the motives behind much educational theory and practice - and attacks the influence of chauvanism, snobbery and money. Energetically discussed and debated are discipline, natural ability, competition, class distinction, bureaucracy, finance, religion, sex education, state versus private schools, education in Russia, indoctrination, the home environment and many other topics. Described by reviewers as 'brilliant', 'provocative', 'sane', 'stimulating', 'practical', and 'original', this book contains the essence of Russell's thought on education and society.

Dare the School Build a New Social Order?

Author: George Sylvester Counts
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809308781
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
George S. Counts was amajor figure in American education for almost fifty years. Republication of this early (1932) work draws special attention to Counts's role as a social and political activist. Three particular themes make the book noteworthy because of their importance in Counts's plan for change as well as for their continuing contemporary importance: (1)Counts's criticism of child-centered progressives; (2)the role Counts assigns to teachers in achieving educational and social reform; and (3) Counts's idea for the reform of the American economy.

Education and the Social Order, 1940-1990

Author: Brian Simon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 664

Book Description
From R.A. Butler's 1944 Act through the debate over comprehensives in the 1960s to the 1988 Education Reform Act, Brian Simon chronicles the major events in education over the past 50 years.

Schooled to Order

Author: David Nasaw
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195028929
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
Argues that as public schools became integral to the maintenance of American lifestyles, they increasingly reflected the primary tensions between democratic rhetoric and the reality of a class-divided system.

Niklas Luhmann

Author: Claudio Baraldi
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319499750
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
This book provides an insight into the ideas of one of the world’s greatest sociologists: Niklas Luhmann. It explains, in clear and concise language, the basic concepts of Social Systems Theory and their application to the specific case of the Education System, which was considered by Luhmann as a primary subsystem of modern society. It illustrates the complex and sophisticated thinking that characterises Luhmann’s work and explains that Luhmann’s theory has given an important and original contribution to the study of education from a sociological point of view. His contribution has some resonance in recent social constructionist and relational approaches to education, as well as in studies of educational interaction. In addition, research methodologies, in particular mixed methods strategies, draw heavily on epistemological issues. The book finally argues that educationists can appreciate the extent of Luhmann’s contribution to the field of education, although their perspective cannot be fully harmonised with, nor reduced to, the sociological one. This divergence of perspectives can stimulate pedagogy to call into question its conceptual framework as well its approach to social situations in the classroom.

Education and the Social Order

Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113585811X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 157

Education, Culture and the Social Order

Author: Khwaja Ghulam Saiyidain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description

My Life Among the Deathworks

Author: Philip Rieff
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813925165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Rieff articulates a comprehensive, typological theory of Western culture. Using visual illustrations, he contrasts the changing modes of spiritual and social thought that have struggled for dominance throughout Western history.

Education and the Social Order

Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description

Democratic Social Education

Author: David W. Hursh
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135711410
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
In 1932 George Counts, in his speech "Dare the School Build a New Social Order?" explicitly challenged teachers to develop a democratic, socialistic society. In Democratic Social Education: Social Studies for Social Change Drs. Hursh and Ross take seriously the question of what social studies educators can do to help build a democratic society in the face of current antidemocratic impulses of greed, individualism and intolerance. The essays in this book respond to Counts' question in theoretical analyses of education and society, historical analyses of efforts since Counts' challenge, and practical analyses of classroom pedagogy and school organization. This volume provides researchers and teacher educators with ideas and descriptions of practice that challenge the taken-for-granted meanings of democracy, citizenship, culture, work, indoctrination, evaluation, standards and curriculum within the purposes of social education.