Originally published in 1962. In this book the main problems of contemporary education are illustrated with fresh material from many countries and assessed in a context of rapid change in technology, society, and politics. Familiar educational concerns are carefully considered; but the altered status of schools, teachers and homes in relation to competing influences receives particular attention. Recent reforms in the Soviet Union, and the development of education in Asia and Africa, are assessed vis-a-vis topical questions and proposals in Great Britain, the United States, and several Western European countries. The book is therefore useful both for ‘problem' studies in comparative education, and for an up-to-date review of principles and practices in a critically formative period. It is also intended to present a study of education that will be widely educative and contribute to world understanding.
Preface Part 1: Introductory
1. How Do We Understand?
2. From Curiosity
to Complement Part 2: The Social Context
3. Who is Educated?
4. The Price of
Progress
5. Culture Conflicts Part 3: The Effect on Schools
6. The Impact of
Technological Change
7. Selection and Differentiation
8. Further and Higher
Education
9. Teachers and their Recruitment Part 4: The Study of Education as
a Personal and Social Leaven
10. Ideologies and Systems of Control
11.
Philosophy, Psychology, and Programmes Part 5: Teachers in a World of Change
12. Social and Family Change
13. Barriers in Education
14. Understanding Our
World. Appendix: The Gentleman
Edmund J. King
