Education and the Cult of EfficiencyRaymond Callahan's lively study exposes the alarming lengths to which school administrators went, particularly in the period from 1910 to 1930, in sacrificing educational goals to the demands of business procedures. He suggests that even today the question still asked is: "How can we operate our schools?" Society has not yet learned to ask: "How can we provide an excellent education for our children?" |
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Contents
The Prelude 19001910 | 3 |
The Schools in a Business Society | 7 |
Setting the Stage for the Efficiency Expert | 16 |
ReformConscious American Discovers the Efficiency Expert | 21 |
The Principles of Scientific Management | 27 |
The Mechanisms of Scientific Management | 30 |
Schmidt Pig Iron and FirstClass Men | 36 |
Criticism and Response in the Early Years of the Efficiency Era | 44 |
Demonstrating Efficiency through Records and Reports | 155 |
Educational Cost Accounting | 160 |
The Educational Balance Sheet and Child Accounting | 167 |
Binding Education in Red Tape | 172 |
A New Profession Takes Form | 181 |
The Captains of Education | 182 |
The Study of Educational Administration in the Universities | 190 |
The Education of the School Executive | 198 |
Mounting Criticism of Education 191113 | 48 |
The Vulnerability of School Administrators | 54 |
Administrators Respond to the Demands for Efficiency | 56 |
American Educators Apply the Great Panacea | 67 |
The Dollar as Educational Criterion | 69 |
Management and the Worker in Education | 81 |
The Educational Efficiency Experts in Action | 97 |
Efficiency Measures for the Schools | 101 |
The School Survey | 114 |
The Unavailing Dissent | 122 |
The Factory System in Education the Platoon School | 128 |
The Gary Plan and Scientific Management | 130 |
The New York Story | 138 |
A Question of Motive | 143 |
Instructing Follows Accounting | 150 |
The Insecurity Down Below | 206 |
Seeking Security through Professional Expertness | 210 |
The New Profession the School Executive | 217 |
Efficiencys Progeny | 223 |
Selling the Schools to the Public | 225 |
The Educational Service Station | 228 |
Mass Production in Education | 234 |
The Descent into Trivia | 242 |
An American Tragedy in Education | 246 |
The Great Diffusion | 250 |
America Reaps the Whirlwind | 257 |
A Look Ahead | 261 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Education and the Cult of Efficiency Page 149 of Phoenix Bks Phoenix book, P149 Page 149 of Phoenix books (University of Chicago Press).: Education |
| Author | Raymond E. Callahan |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press, 1962 |
| ISBN | 0226091503, 9780226091501 |
| Length | 273 pages |
| Subjects | › › Education / General Education / History Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects History / United States / 20th Century |
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