The Once and Future School Three Hundred and Fifty Years of American Secondary Education |
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| Author:
| Herbst, Jurgen |
| ISBN: | 978-0-415-91193-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1997 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $121.00 |
Book Description:
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Jurgen Herbsttraces the debates, discussions, pronouncements and reports through which Americans have sought to clarify their conceptions of the goals and purposes of education beyond the common school. The Once and Future Schoolargues that to make sense of the current trials of secondary educational system and to maintain any sense of direction and vision for its future, we need a clear understanding of its path in the past and of its setting in a multi-national world....
More DescriptionJurgen Herbsttraces the debates, discussions, pronouncements and reports through which Americans have sought to clarify their conceptions of the goals and purposes of education beyond the common school.
The Once and Future Schoolargues that to make sense of the current trials of secondary educational system and to maintain any sense of direction and vision for its future, we need a clear understanding of its path in the past and of its setting in a multi-national world. From their beginnings in colonial America to the present day, Jurgen Herbst traces the debates, discussions, pronouncements and reports through which Americans have sought to hammer out and clarify their conceptions of the goals and purposes of education beyond the common school.