[lbo-talk] School Debate: Central Focus

David Green davegreen84 at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 16 07:36:04 PST 2012


"Schools of education have always been seen as rather secondary, sneered at, historically.. My hometown had a normal school, later converted to a state college specializing in education. They were built mainly for the instruction of women to enter teaching, which was always seen as something one did temporarily until marriage. It was treated as a form of babysitting (working class mothers worked until their kids reached school age, then they dropped out of the labor face once kids were school/work age). The big push behind public education in the late 1800s didn't get much traction until two forces got involved: unions (to keep workers out of the labor force) and industry (who wanted to spread the cost of training their workforce across the public). (Forgotten the historian of all this, Apple was his name? )"   Michael W. Apple, University of Wisconsin http://www.amazon.com/Teachers-Texts-Political-Relations-Education/dp/0415900743


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