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ERIC Number: EJ417437
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Schools as Agencies of Social Criticism.
Ferree, George
Michigan Social Studies Journal, v3 n1 p11-18 1988-89
Posits that schools must help students evaluate their culture and seek social change where warranted. Analyzes features of rationality in the mandate that schools provide students with tools for reasoned, logical, and unpartisan social criticism. Suggests that radical theorists have not clearly proposed to schools rational structures for implementing the critical approach. (CH)
Descriptors: Citizenship Responsibility, Critical Theory, Critical Thinking, Decision Making Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluative Thinking, Problem Solving, School Role, Social Change, Social Studies, Teacher Responsibility, Thinking Skills
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Audience: Teachers; Administrators; Practitioners
Language: English
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