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  title info:
    title: Changing concepts of equal educational opportunity
    sub title: a comparison of the views of Thomas Jefferson, Horace Mann, and John Dewey : a dissertation
  name:
    name part: Brick, Blanche Henderson
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Armstrong, David G.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Bratlien, Maynard J.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Campbell, Jack K.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: McDermott, John J.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1983
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 239 leaves ; 29 cm
  abstract: Current educational policies regarding equal educational opportunity are confused and often contradictory. To develop better policies, educators need to understand the historical development of the concept of equal opportunity and to consider the educational as well as the political implications of this idea. The objective of this study is to examine the changing concepts of equal educational opportunity. Major writings of Thomas Jefferson, Horace Mann, and John Dewey are examined: (1) To compare what each man meant by the term equal educational opportunity. (2) To demonstrate that differences in the concept of equal educational opportunity were the result of each man's philosophical views regarding the nature of man, individual responsibility, and the "Good Society." (3) To consider how each man's view of equal educational opportunity affected his educational theories. The three men examined in this study shared a strong commitment to the democratic belief in equal opportunity. This study demonstrates, however, that the concept of equal educational opportunity changed significantly from the time of Thomas Jefferson to the time of John Dewey and that these changes were directly related to each man's philosophical assumptions. This study concludes that present policies of equal educational opportunity can be directly related to John Dewey's educational philosophy as it was expressed in Democracy and Education as early as 1916. Attempts to provide each student an equal opportunity for growth and development, regardless of natural endowments or abilities, changed the purposes of education and the practices used to accomplish these purposes. ...
  note: "Major subject: Curriculum and Instruction."
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. in Philosophy Texas A & M University 1983
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 223-238).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Dewey, John
      name part: 1859-1952
    topic: Views on education
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Jefferson, Thomas
      name part: 1743-1826
    topic: Views on education
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Mann, Horace
      name part: 1796-1859
    topic: Views on education
  subject:
    topic: Educational equalization
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Curriculum and Instruction
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-548662
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 841025
    record change date: 20220104090258.0
    record identifier: in00000538678
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng