Document Type

Project

Publication Date

Spring 2001

Keywords

School reform, Redemptive culture of schooling

Abstract

The social construction of a redemptive culture of schooling

From Horace Mann’s crusade for the common school to the 1983 federally commissioned report, “A Nation at Risk,” to the contemporary assimilation of state standards into planning and assessment, the history of American education expresses the belief that schools are the primary vehicle for social change. Public consensus and commonsense agree that, once correctly identified, problems in the social, economic, political, or moral sphere can be effectively resolved through the schools. Lying barely submerged beneath the language of school reform is the metaphor of redemption. Education is the source of individual improvement and eventual success as well as of societal progress towards the ideal society. Through education the individual is saved from the failures, pitfalls, and vices of her time. Society is saved through the aggregate success of its members.’

Department

Elementary Education

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

Educational sociology--United States; Education--Aims and objectives--United States; Educational change--United States

Geographic Coverage

United States

Genre/Form

student projects; term papers

Type

Text

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Language

English

Format

application/pdf

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