The Social Frontier: A Critical Reader

ISBN-13: 9781433109195 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 282 str.

Semel, Susan F.

Opis

The Social Frontier is the most interesting and important educational journal to emerge from the Great Depression. First published in 1934 by a group of scholars at Teachers College, Columbia University that included George Counts and William Heard Kilpatrick, the magazine represented a conscious act of social and political reconstruction. With a strong -collectivist- orientation, the magazine was widely misperceived as communist in its approach. In fact, its editorial position called for a greater social role for teachers and a more just and equitable system of schooling.
The magazine, which was published for a total of nine years, included articles by major educational and social thinkers of the period from John Dewey to Robert Hutchins and Harold Rugg. Within months of the magazine s first issue it came under attack by right-wing political groups, particularly the Hurst newspaper chain. The Social Frontier: A Critical Reader provides a selection of the most interesting and historically important articles from the magazine with a comprehensive introduction and critical commentaries on the selected articles, which are as timely today as they were when first published seventy-five years ago."

Spis treści

Contents: The Editorial Board: Orientation - The Editorial Board: The Ives Law - John Dewey: Can Education Share in Social Reconstruction? - The Editorial Board: Collectivism and Collectivism - The Editorial Board: Academic Freedom - The Editorial Board: Editorial Comments on the Social Frontier - The Editorial Board: Champions of Freedom - Merle Curti: Our Revolutionary Tradition - Harry D. Gideonse: Non-Partisan Education for Political Intelligence - The Editorial Board: The Hearst Attack on Academic Freedom - Harold Rugg: The American Scholar Faces a Social Crisis - The Editorial Board: Seeds of Revolt - William F. Ogburn: Prospecting for the Future - John Dewey: Toward a National System of Education - William H. Kilpatrick: Loyalty Oaths - A Threat to Intelligent Teaching - Granville Hicks: The Captive School - Norman Thomas: The New Deal - An Appraisal - The Editorial Board: Teachers and the Class Struggle - John Dewey: The Meaning of Liberalism - Charles A. Beard: The Social Studies Curriculum - The Editorial Board: The New Aristocracy - John Dewey: Liberalism and Equality - Myles Horton: The Highlander Folk School - The Editorial Board: Shall Teachers Be Free? - John Dewey: The Social Significance of Academic Freedom - William H. Kilpatrick: Freedom to Develop Social Intelligence - Carleton Washburne: Indoctrination Versus Education - Lionel Heap: The Little Red Rider - John L. Childs: Democracy, Education, and the Class Struggle - Wilfred Eberhart: Poems - Congress of the United States, House of Representatives: Survey of Teachers and Their Political Opinions - John Dewey: Rationality in Education - John Dewey: President Hutchins' Proposals to Remake Higher Education - Robert M. Hutchins: The Crisis in Contemporary Grammar, Rhetoric, and Mr. Dewey - John Dewey: The Higher Learning in America - John Dewey: Education and Social Change - Carl Bode: Footnote - Leon Trotsky: Question and Answer - The Editorial Board: The Dies Committee and True Americanism - Margaret Mead: The Problem of Minorities - Jesse H. Newlon: Teachers and Politics - 1940 - Harold Rugg: This Has Happened Before - The Editorial Board: This War and American Education - The Editorial Board: Education and Total War - B. Othanel Smith: Essentials of Education for a People's Peace - Directors of the Progressive Education Association: The Directors of the Progressive Education Association Vote 12 to 3 to Discontinue Publication - Harold Rugg: We Accept in Principle but Reject in Practice. Is This Leadership? - The Editorial Board: In Retrospect.

O autorze

Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. is a Professor in the School of Education at the University of Miami. He is the author or editor of over seventy books dealing with educational policy, African-American history, curriculm, computing and the history of education.