Social Education versus Vocational Education: Can They Coexist?

Abstract

The movement for vocational education conceals within itself two mighty and opposing forces, one which would utilize the public school primarily to turn out more efficient laborers in the present economic regime, with certain incidental advantages to themselves, the other which would utilize all the resources of public education to equip individuals to control their own future economic careers, and thus help on such a reorganization of industry as will change it from a feudalistic to a democratic order. (Dewey 1917, 334-35)

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Jeff Passe

JEFF PASSE, a professor of education, teaches courses in curriculum and social studies at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte.