Education and the Cult of Efficiency
University of Chicago Press, 1964
Cloth: 978-0-226-09148-8 | Paper: 978-0-226-09150-1 | Electronic: 978-0-226-21690-4
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226216904.001.0001
Cloth: 978-0-226-09148-8 | Paper: 978-0-226-09150-1 | Electronic: 978-0-226-21690-4
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226216904.001.0001
ABOUT THIS BOOKTABLE OF CONTENTS
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Raymond Callahan's lively study exposes the alarming lengths to which school administrators went, particularly in the period from 1910 to 1930, in sacrificing educational goals to the demands of business procedures. He suggests that even today the question still asked is: "How can we operate our schools?" Society has not yet learned to ask: "How can we provide an excellent education for our children?"
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. The Prelude 1900-1910
2. Reform-Conscious America Discovers the Efficiency Expert
3. Criticism and Response in the Early Years of the Efficiency Era
4. American Educators Apply the Great Panacea
5. The Educational Efficiency Experts in Action
6. The "Factory System" in Education -- the Platoon School
7. Instruction Follows Accounting
8. A New Profession Takes Form
9. Efficiency's Progeny
10. An American Tragedy in Education
Index