Sentences with phrase «social efficiency»

First came the zealots of social efficiency such as W.W. Charters and John Franklin Bobbitt, who saw the progressive movement as a vehicle for the wholesale ditching of the traditional subject - matter curriculum.

Following the credo of social efficiency rather than inquiry learning, they created the modern education bureaucracy and a radically differentiated curriculum, complete with vocational rationale, dumbed - down courses, and a focus on life adjustment more than academic learning.

While it's arguable that «borrowing» an associate from an AmLaw 100 firm is more economically attractive than wholesale reliance on a partner, the private equity firm will «pay» for this in terms of time and social efficiency just as someone will «pay» for the H&M / high - end designer collaboration.

We went through a further round in the 1920s and «30s as notions of child - centered education and «social efficiency» permeated the schools.

We may each have our own answers, and Dr. David Labaree of Michigan State University, posed three general goals in his 1997 article: «democratic equality - schools should focus on preparing citizens; social efficiency - schools should focus on training workers; and social mobility - schools should prepare individuals to compete for social positions.»

The movement to establish social studies was shaped and defined by such milestones as the 1916 report of the National Education Association's Committee on Social Studies, which situated social studies within the Progressive vision of «modern education» that aimed at «social efficiency» (Committee on Social Studies, 1916, p. 9, reprinted in Nelson, 1994).

The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act plays an essential role in offering what Labaree considers a fundamental purpose of education: social efficiency.

Most local, state and national education reforms can be understood as reflecting the relative importance of the goals of democratic equality, social efficiency, and social mobility, and the irreducible tensions among these goals.

Central to Labaree's analysis is the recognition that there are several important goals for American education, which he labels democratic equality, social efficiency, and social mobility.