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Education and Social Change: Themes in the History of American Schoolingreviewed by Kathryn Benson - 2004 Title: Education and Social Change: Themes in the History of American Schooling Author(s): John L. Rury Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Mahwah, NJ ISBN: 0805833390, Pages: 255, Year: 2002 Search for book at Amazon.com Claiming that Americans “hold an extraordinary belief in
the transforming power of education” (p. x), John L. Rury
cogently points to the fact that education and social changes are
intertwined and conjoined in complex fashion, and the strands must
be untangled and analyzed for historical and social meanings. He
stresses the necessity of understanding American educational
history within the confines of larger societal pressures where
human agency demonstrates “the ability to adapt to shifting
historical circumstances and to devise imaginative and effectual
responses to the problems that arise from them” (p. xi).
This book should be of interest to educators and students as it
is a comprehensive and concise study of American education and
society from the colonial period to the end of the twentieth
century. “Do schools change society, or does society change
the schools?” queries Rury (p. 1). The question is an
essential yet multifaceted one, a question that requires a study of
the functional relationships between school and society, the public
and the private,... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Kathryn Benson
Southern Arkansas University E-mail Author KATHRYN M. BENSON is the Program Director for the Masters of Arts in Teaching Program and Associate Graduate Faculty at Southern Arkansas University School of Education. Her research interests include qualitative research and curriculum theory.
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