Controversies Over the Purposes of Schooling: and the Meaning of Work - Hardcover

Benson, Norman; Lyons, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0819177709 ISBN 13: 9780819177704

Publisher: University Press of America, 1990

Synopsis

This revised edition of the original, first published by UPA in 1986, is a collection of readings designed to help students clarify their understanding of the ongoing debate over the responsibilities of schools. Contents: Do the Public Schools Educate Children Beyond the Position They Must Occupy in Life? William T. Harris; The Democratic Conception in Education, John Dewey; Dare the School Build a New Social Order? George S. Counts; A Control of Education, Theodore Brameld; Technology and Community, Kenneth D. Benne; Significant Learning, Carl Rogers; Great Expectations and the Experience of Work, Seymour Sarason; The Motivation-Hygiene Theory, Frederick Harzberg; Three Theoretical Approaches to Work, Richard Lyons; Job and WorkoTwo Models for Society and Education, Arthur G. Wirth; Implementing Workplace Reforms in Schools, Norman Benson and Patricia Malone.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0819177709
• ISBN 13: 9780819177704
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 268