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- Title
Moral Majorities and the School Curriculum: Historical Perspectives on the Legalization of Virtue.
- Authors
Tyack, David B.; James, Thomas
- Abstract
This article discusses on the historical perspective of the state government's involvement in the formation of values that inform the school curriculum in the U.S. In 1891, a group of educational leaders agreed that all pupils must learn English and American moral and political principles. As the U.S. turns more urban, industrialized and heterogeneous in its population and values, politically powerful White Anglo-Saxon Protestant groups became worried about declining consensus on religious and political values, dismayed by drunkenness and urban ills, concerned about the assimilation and loyalty of new immigrant groups, and frightened by violent strikes and class conflict.
- Subjects
UNITED States; EDUCATION policy; HISTORY of education; EDUCATIONAL law &; legislation; STUDENTS; VALUES (Ethics); CURRICULUM; SOCIAL conflict; WASPS (Persons)
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1985, Vol 86, Issue 4, p513
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146818508600404