Social orientation and teacher education

Present concern with clarifying the residual functions of American education, and with establishing a better understanding of the relationship between education as an organized social force and other social agencies has pointed out clearly the essential need for a program of teacher preparation that functionally social. The extent to which residual functions are interpreted and social interdependencies explained to the best interests of society are directly dependent upon the extent to which teachers, themselves, are conversant with what they are endeavoring to interpret and explain. Educating teachers to teach in an atmosphere alien to that in which they expect to work after leaving school fraudulent. Teachers in training must become thoroughly familiar with the education that aspires to be before they can, in turn, be looked to for support. To achieve a mutually satisfying adjustment of individual to society and society to individual the particular function education has set for itself. Out of this manifestation of concern for individual and group welfare stands to come the preservation of democratic living, an ideal now being challenged not only in Europe and the far East, but in areas much nearer this country. To remain oblivious to that realization is to cast off the mandate of eternal vigilance, and accept the facile optimism that paralyzes preventative measures

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• The Unique Function of Education in American Democracy

  Frank H Hankins, Charles A Beard et al.•American Sociological Review•1937

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