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- Title
"The Most Wonderful Thing Has Happened to Me in the Army": Psychology, Citizenship, and American Higher Education in World War II.
- Authors
Loss, Christopher P.
- Abstract
The article offers observation on the U.S. higher education during the World War II. The education soldiers received during and after the war altered their lives. Fear of the psychological maladjustment of GI in the field led top military leaders to approve the use of psychological screening mechanisms that seemed to indicate educated soldiers were superior soldiers. Education was a democratic form of propaganda that offered soldiers a clear affirmation of liberal values. In 1943, the War Department authorized the formation of 239 Special Training Units to help illiterate draftees learn how to read at or above fourth-grade level. Yet the crafting of state education policy before and after the GI Bill did not lead to the revolutions in the higher education and democratic citizenship.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HIGHER education; POSTSECONDARY education; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; NON-military education of military personnel; MILITARY education; WORLD War II; ILLITERATE persons; DRAFTEES
- Publication
Journal of American History, 2005, Vol 92, Issue 3, p864
- ISSN
0021-8723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3659971