Identities and Contours: An Approach to Educational History.

Autor/in	Greene, Maxine
Titel	Identities and Contours: An Approach to Educational History.
Quelle	(1973), (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Educational History; Educational Objectives; Educational Philosophy; Educational Theories; Educational Trends; Individualism; Literary Criticism; Progressive Education; Self Expression; Socialization; United States Literature + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Educational theory; Theory of education; Bildungstheorie; Bildungsentwicklung; Individualismus; Literaturkritik; Reformpädagogik; Progressive Erziehung; Ausdruck; Socialisation; Sozialisation
Abstract	The expression of individual freedom and fear of the impairment of that freedom, two themes frequently found in modern American literature, can also be applied to a discussion of educational history. Today's "revisionist" historians condemn the progressive of Dewey's persuasion, who sacrificed the individual to socialization and the institution of American education, and espouse Paul Goodman's and Theodore Roszak's ideas about the individual's survival in spite of society. The author sees the "revisionists", trapped by their fear of loss of freedom, denying socialization in a gesture of revolt; she finds similar themes in American literature. Acceptance of the reality of socialization, a contour that must form every individual's life, would provide a balanced view of education and life. She emphasizes the normal tension between freedom and social exigencies, which would require a change from revisionist revolt and negativism but a retention of individual and social awareness. (JH)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC