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- Title
Cinderella Syndrome: A Philosophical View of Supervision as a Field of Study.
- Authors
Smyth, W. John
- Abstract
The article states that supervision is suffering from a legacy of being affiliated with an outmoded interpretation of science and technology. Value-free objectivist views of science and the notions of technical rationality that accompany them have broken down in the face of protracted social problems--social engineering in the guise of neutral science no longer suffices. From the educational literature it is clear that the intention of the common schools in the United States in the nineteenth century was unashamedly that of changing the nature of society; those who assumed the title supervisor were to be the front-line evangelists in changing the social order. Failing to develop a viable widespread school system would result in the replication in this country of the condition of the South American republics which have fallen into revolutionary decrepitude and degenerated into military despotisms. Without a good system of public schools, the thinking went, the great experiment in republican government that was America, where each person had the opportunity to be what he or she could be, would degenerate. Wealth would be concentrated in the hands of a few and such concentration of wealth enables its possessor to monopolize intellectual attainment, and robs the mass of motive power to effort.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SUPERVISION; SCHOOLS; SCHOOL supervision; HERMENEUTICS; SCHOOL superintendents
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1987, Vol 88, Issue 4, p567
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146818708800402