A Study of Public-Oriented School Reform from the Progressive Period to the Present in America

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This study project aims at clarifying the features and tasks of educational reform movement in the United States from the Progresive period to the present day.First, I focus on analyzing the nature and direction of the present school reform in America which started in the middle of the 1980s. In order to clarify the theoretical tasks in volved in the present reform, such educational theories proposed by John Dewey, Nel Noddings, and Henry Giroux are examined.Second, I elucidate the "postmodern" factors involved in the present educational reform. Especially, I focus on the analysis of postmodern theories on human becoming with specialreference to the formation of "hybrid identity" proposed by cultural studies and the function of "border crssing" asserted by Giroux.Third, by examining theoretical wisdom accumulated through various educational reforms from the Progressive period to the present day, I review the impact of this tradition uponthe construction of paralogical theory of human becoming and educational reform in our country. This study will be a matrix for constructing a theory of education through "public imagination, " which will integrates multiple interests and perspectives through the method of cooperative inquiry and communication.