Dare the School Build a New Social Order? / Edition 1

by George S. Counts

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780809308781
Publisher:	Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date:	11/01/1978
Series:	Arcturus Books Series
Edition description:	1st Edition
Pages:	72
Product dimensions:	4.75(w) x 7.75(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Wayne J. Urban is Associate Profes­sor, Department of Educational Foun­dations, Georgia State University.

Editorial Reviews

Certain to give hope to all who be­lieve educational reform is still possible.” —Change

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