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ERIC Number: EJ577271
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-7217
No More Principals! No More Custodians!
Bussler, Darrol
Phi Delta Kappan, v80 n4 p317-18 Dec 1998
Advocates abolishing school custodians and training school students to clean up their own messes. Personal responsibility has two philosophical bases: pragmatism and "educational reconstructionism," holding that schools must not only transmit the culture, but transform it. Other countries, such as Japan, stress student maintenance of a school's physical space for the common good. (MLH)
Descriptors: Cleaning, Custodian Training, Educational Benefits, Elementary Secondary Education, Empowerment, Hidden Curriculum, Student Responsibility
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Custodians