'The Actual Objectives of the Present-Day High School,' Franklin Bobbitt [1921]
| Autor: | Franklin Bobbitt |
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| Rok vydání: | 1983 |
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| Zdroj: | American Journal of Education. 91:450-467 |
| ISSN: | 1549-6511 0195-6744 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/443710 |
| Popis: | The University of Chicago's Franklin Bobbitt was a Clark University Ph.D. and a student of Frederick Winslow Taylor's doctrines of scientific management. In 1918, the Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education issued a report that organized progressive educational objectives around the Seven Cardinal Principles-vocation, citizenship, health, worthy use of leisure, command of fundamental processes, worthy home membership, and ethical character. In this article, Bobbitt examines the extent to which the curricula of a random sample of high schools actually adhered to these principles. Bobbitt finds that on the average the high schools devoted more classes to vocational objectives than to any other, that they offered few courses in those social studies courses emphasizing contemporary citizenship, that physical education constituted the only offerings in health education, and that except for English literature they provided for little instruction in the use of leisure time. Although high schools offered much instruction in "disciplinary subjects," these appeared not to fit into the Seven Cardinal Principles at all, or they did so only loosely. The general failure that Bobbitt identifies in the realization of progressive objectives leads him to conclude, "It is not actual scientifically verifiable goals of training which are dictating the degrees of emphasis; but rather ... it is guess and predilection and the compromise of powerful academic interests." Schools had a long way to go before making the desirable a reality. |
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