THE ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN MASS PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE LIGHT OF THE „CORRESPONDANCE THEORY“ Cover Image

ПОЧЕЦИ АМЕРИЧКОГ МАСОВНОГ ЈАВНОГ ШКОЛСТВА У СВЕТЛУ ТЕОРИЈЕ КОРЕСПОНДЕНЦИЈЕ
THE ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN MASS PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE LIGHT OF THE „CORRESPONDANCE THEORY“

Author(s): Mirko Filipović
Subject(s): History of Education, State/Government and Education, Evaluation research
Published by: Српско социолошко друштво
Keywords: factory system; reform movement; school reform; social control; public common school;

Summary/Abstract: The analysis of the authors belonging to the “Correspondance Theory” leaves little doubt that U.S educational expansion and school reform in 19. century was associated with the growing ascendancy of the capitalist mode of production. Discovered pattern comprehends accumulation in the dinamic, advanced sectors of the economy, the consequent integration of new workers into the wage labour system, the expansion of the urban working class and the reserve army, the emergence of political protest movements and the threat of social unrest, and, finaly, the development of movements for educational expansion and reform. While the impetus for educational reform rarely came from impoverished disgrunted farmers or urban working class, the leadership of the movement was in the hands of a coalition of professionals and owners from the leading sectors of the economy who always succeeded in stamping its imprint on the form and direction of educational innovation.

  • Issue Year: 41/2007
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 351-365
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Serbian