Document Type
Issue Area One
Abstract
At first glance, the question Whose Children? Whose Schools? seems fairly straight forward. State law requires public schools to educate all children between the ages of 5 and 16 who present themselves at our doors. But of course the real question being asked is something quite different than this simple one. The real question is how and why do we educate young people in our democracy? The issue is further confused by the increasingly pluralistic nature of our society because we, as a nation and society, have not even agreed as to whether we value this diversity. As a country, we are undecided about whether we are a "melting pot" that yields one homogeneous culture that is "America," or whether we are, and should be, a mixture whose parts may or may not combine into something new and different from the original components.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
5
Issue
2
First Page
45
Last Page
49
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1994 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Wells, Thomas
(1994)
"Understanding Society's Process of Change,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 5:
No.
2, Article 14.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol5/iss2/14
