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| Autor: | John E. Craig |
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| Rok vydání: | 1981 |
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| Zdroj: | American Journal of Education. 89:189-211 |
| ISSN: | 1549-6511 0195-6744 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/443571 |
| Popis: | Since the 1950s the relationship between education and other social instructions has been the focus of a rapidly expanding body of literature. More accurately, it has been the focus of two distinct bodies of literature, both expanding at impressive rates. The more important, at least as measured by shelf feet, has been based on the analysis of contemporary relationships and oriented to the formulation of policy. Produced for the most part by sociologists, economists, and political scientists, it has addressed itself to issues of considerable concern to all modern societies: the real and potential contributions of education to equity, to mobility, to national integration, to elite formation, and to economic development, and the consequences for education of economic, social, and political change. True to the canons of the social sciences, most of this literature is at least implicitly comparative. Whatever the specific subject, an underlying assumption is that the findings have relevance for a wide range of societies, if not for all. The second body of literature is historical in character. The concern has been with the relationship between educational change and other social changes in certain places at certain times in the past. Much of this literature reflects the influence of concepts and models borrowed, usually uncritically, from the sociologists, the economists, and the political scientists. Yet with few exceptions the authors have not attempted to repay the debt. True to the traditions of their own discipline, they have been preoccupied with accounting for the |
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