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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED026000 AUTHOR: Martin, Warren Bryan
TITLE: Education as Intervention.
YEAR PUBLISHED: (1968)
NOTE: 33 p.
ABSTRACT: US higher education offers a diversity of
programs, electives and courses but requires student
conformity to prescribed values which relate only to
societal structures within the academic community.
Institutions of higher education emphasize achievement
oriented social styles evolving from an accepted philosophy
that stresses energy, compromise and pluralism as means to
such goals as power, fame and wealth. The success of a
student is based not only upon his academic achievement but
also his adherence to these institutional social values.
Today's society is challenging higher education to train
experts in technological and electronic fields while youths
seek new relationships between administration, faculty,
education, society, and themselves. Current pressures are
exposing the limitations of education's social function at
a time when colleges and universities are experiencing some
internal uncertainty. These combined forces might effect
several changes on the campus, including (1) changes in
organization and administration of colleges and
universities, especially greater involvement of students in
institutional governance and academic policy formulation,
(2) interdisciplinary studies combined with field work,
linking fields to each other and bringing the campus to the
community, and (3) changes in student-faculty
relationships, where students assume more responsibility
for their education and are given opportunities to develop
both intellectually and emotionally. (WM)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Educational-Innovation; Middle-Class
Standards; Social-Influences; Student-Participation;
Values-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Educational-Change; *Governance-; *Higher
Education; *Intervention-; *Social-Values
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