Knee-Jerk Formalism: The Higher Education Reports.

Rossides, Daniel W.

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Publication Date: 1987

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Knee-Jerk Formalism: The Higher Education Reports.

Rossides, Daniel W.

Journal of Higher Education, v58 n4 p404-429 Jul-Aug 1987

The higher education reports fail to put education in a social context and ignore the main finding of 50 years of research--that the problems of education are caused by the outer society and cannot be solved until changes are made in basic economic and political institutions. (Author/MLW)

Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Elitism, Federal Government, Government Role, Higher Education, Humanities, Liberal Arts, National Surveys, Research Reports, Social Class, Socioeconomic Influences, Traditionalism

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Language: English

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