The essays that follow enlarge on these themes with telling commentary on contemporary society.
ENGLISH UNLIMITED LEARNING FACTORY CULTURA SERIES
This original consideration of the link between education and culture lives up to the Bruner standard of insightful, provocative, and essentially hopeful discourse.In a long first essay he outlines a series of tenets, ranging from the need to foster self-esteem in children to the importance of the narrative mode by which children come to recognize themselves and find a place in the culture. Using a variety of social perspectives and methods of analysis, Tyack illuminates for all readers the change from village to urban ways of thinking and acting over the course of more than one hundred years. He looks at the politics and inertia, the ideologies and power struggles that formed the basis of our present educational system. David Tyack has placed his colorful, wide-ranging view of history within a broad new framework drawn from the most recent work in history, sociology, and political science.
And it encompasses both the achievements and the failures of the system: the successful assimilation of immigrants, racism and class bias the opportunities offered to some, the injustices perpetuated for others. At the same time it is a narrative in which the participants themselves speak out: farm children and factory workers, frontier teachers and city superintendents, black parents and elite reformers. The One Best System presents a major new interpretation of what actually happened in the development of one of America’s most influential institutions.
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