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Introduction: Education at the Crossroads
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MODERN THOUGHT
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3 / 1988 |
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Amid the tremors of an information explosion, and as technological advancements develop at breakneck speed, reams of analyses and critiques have been produced assessing the capability of our educational system to meet the demands of the era. Most of these have stressed the content and curriculum of the education that is generally available, and many have gone on to reveal the shocking sins of omission by the system.
However, the analyses of current educational systems offered this month in THE WORLD & I go beyond the question of curriculum; they consider the values implicitly transmitted by the educational system's structure and practices; and they study the interplay between the broader sociopolitical factors and a particular country's educational system. These topics are developed in the following sections:
I. Higher Education and Culture
In this section, Spaeth and Piccone deal with academia's temptations of exclusive individualism and isolation from the society at large. Arroyo shows that the effects of today's pluralistic culture on the university amounts to a relativism that borders on a social nihilism.
II. Secondary Education and Values
This section focuses on the impact America's high schools are having on the youth of this country--whether it is through the values that are taught, as Ryan and Jackson argue, or through the more subtle and dangerous messages that the system's very structure sends, as Bremer warns.
III. A Look at Educational
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