A Study of Social Science as the Culminating Point of Changes in Educational Theory and Practice in the Present Public School System of New York State
Abstract
The subject of this essay is to show how Social Science has come about as the culmination of changes in educational theory and practice, such changes., in turn, occasioned by events and influences of great significance. Among such events and influences we shall present (1) the contributions of physical sciences in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries to education; (2) the industrial revolution with its inventions; (3) the Enlightenment with its effects upon the individual, the education of children, and present educational psychologies. As an outcome of the· preceding factors, a new concept of civilization, expressed in modern terminology and founded in a new philosophy of life, shall be examined. Education as scientific planning for a new social order, in the sense of better than the existing order, and adjustment of the individual to a changing environment as a social and economic problem, will be treated. This will lead us to a summary of Social Science within the public school system of New York State.
Subject Area
Educational evaluation|Education philosophy
Recommended Citation
Palmer, Irene K, "A Study of Social Science as the Culminating Point of Changes in Educational Theory and Practice in the Present Public School System of New York State" (1938). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI29282636.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI29282636
