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The Pedumum is Still Swinging and the Clock is Striking Thirteen
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Posted By: Dick Schutz on August 30, 2005 |
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The question that Mead asked over 40 years ago is still as fresh and apt now as it was then: [Why should we] “ involve[e] ourselves over and over in pendulum swings between one hoary and unsatisfactory solution and its opposite?”
Answer: Internal and external politics and economics have all-but driven out all logic and reasoning about the whys, wherefores, and wherewithals related to schooling. Dogma rules, and it’s been extended to encompass the conduct of educational research.
Dick Schutz
3RsPlus@usinter.net
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