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- Title
Environmentalism in American Pedagogy: The Legacy of Lester Ward.
- Authors
Tanner, Laurel N.; Tanner, Daniel
- Abstract
The article discusses the issue of environmentalism in American pedagogy. True reformers believe the world is not the best it can be and are working in one way or another to show how it can be made better. Reformers may be classified into, first, those who have little patience for gradual improvement and want to change the social structure suddenly and, second, those who see that immediate changes in the structure of society are impossible and that reform will be achieved only as the mental caliber of society is improved. If there is anything that developments in curriculum and educational policy throughout this century have revealed, it is that environmentalism became the dominant influence in American education. In fact, educational progressivists in the United States embraced and advanced environmentalism long before it came to undergird the social sciences here and abroad. In America, pedagogy anticipated by several generations the recent trend to environmentalism in the social sciences and the belief in the changeability of human beings.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ENVIRONMENTALISM; UNITED States education system; REFORMERS; SOCIAL movements; EDUCATION policy
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1987, Vol 88, Issue 4, p537
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146818708800403