Trends in social science in general education in college
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11258263 |
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| Authors | Kenneth R Walker (Arkansas Tech University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1963 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 110-117 |
| Publication date | 1963-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Peabody Journal of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-956X • E-ISSN: 1532-7930 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01619566309537164 |
| OpenAlex | W2047070067 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Some of the subjects that are included in the social sciences have been in existence as long as the historical period of mankind. When colleges began to develop around 1200, their curricula contained courses in history and religion. In the seventeenth century, Comenius, the Moravian bishop and reformer, included courses in theology, history, government, and economics among the courses which would secure all human beings a training in all that is proper for their common humanity.' Although such courses as these were thought of as a part of liberal education in these earlier periods, it was not until after 1750, having been given a boost by the Industrial Revolution, that courses such as history, economics, and government were referred to as social science. Throughout the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, social science courses continued to be thought of as a necessary part of a liberal arts education.2 Senator George F. Hoar noted that Harvard required courses in social science when he attended there in the 1840's.' A. Lawrence Lowell, later president of Harvard, speaking in the 1890's, included history along with physical sciences, literature, and metaphysics among the large-area groupings with which every student should become acquainted in order to understand the fundamental concepts and methods common to mankind. Because of his AngloSaxon bias and his social-science training, Woodrow Wilson made an even stronger case for the social sciences and English literature at the turn of the twentieth century. He believed that the core of the general educational program should be the political and institutional
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