General Education in a Free Society

General Education in a Free Society

Title page for General Education in a Free Society (1950)
Author	Harvard Committee on the Objectives of a General Education in a Free Society, headed by James B. Conant
Subject	Secondary education in the United States
Publisher	Harvard University Press
Publication date	1945
Pages	268
Text	General Education in a Free Society at Internet Archive

General Education in a Free Society, also known as the Harvard Redbook, is a 1945 Harvard University report on the importance of general education in American secondary and post-secondary schools. It is among the most important works in curriculum studies. ^[1]

According to historian Frederick Rudolph, the Redbook called for "a submersion in tradition and heritage and some sense of common bond strong enough to bring unbridled ego and ambition under control." ^[2]

References

1. Kridel, Craig, ed. (2010). "General Education in a Free Society (Harvard Redbook)". Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies. Vol. 1. SAGE. pp. 400–402. ISBN   978-1-4129-5883-7.
2. Chase, Alston (Jun. 2000). "Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber." The Atlantic Monthly , vol. 285, no. 6. pp. 41-65.

References

• Armstrong, Walter P. (November 1945). "Books for Lawyers: General Education in a Free Society". American Bar Association Journal. 31 (11): 592–594. ISSN   0002-7596. JSTOR   25715400.
• Bullough, Robert V. Jr. (1981). "General Education: Bode and the Harvard Report". The Journal of General Education. 33 (2): 102–112. ISSN   0021-3667. JSTOR   27796847.
• C., P. W. L. (1945). "Rev. of General Education in a Free Society". The Clearing House. 20 (3): 180–181. ISSN   0009-8655. JSTOR   30178155.
• Coffman, George R. (1945). "A New Order". South Atlantic Bulletin. 11 (2): 1–5. doi:10.2307/3198694. ISSN   0038-2868. JSTOR   3198694.
• Cutten, George B. (1946). "A Book to Be Studied". The Journal of Higher Education . 17 (2): 109–110. doi:10.1080/00221546.1946.11775473. ISSN   0022-1546. JSTOR   1975632.
• Doyle, Henry Grattan (1998). "Una página del pasado / Uma página do passado: Hispania 29 (1946): 69". Hispania. 81 (3): 633. ISSN   0018-2133. JSTOR   345685.
• Hatfield, W. Wilbur (1945). "'General' Education". The English Journal. 34 (9): 523–524. doi:10.2307/807946. ISSN   0013-8274. JSTOR   807946.
• Holmes, U. T. (1946). "Rev. of General Education in a Free Society". The French Review. 19 (5): 320–321. ISSN   0016-111X. JSTOR   381290.
• Huebener, Theodore (1945). "Rev. of General Education in a Free Society". Hispania. 28 (4): 626–627. doi:10.2307/333826. ISSN   0018-2133. JSTOR   333826.
• Huse, H. R. (1946). "Harvard and Yale on Foreign Languages". South Atlantic Bulletin. 11 (4): 5–6. doi:10.2307/3198625. ISSN   0038-2868. JSTOR   3198625.
• Le Roy, Gaylord (1946). "Rev. of General Education in a Free Society". Science & Society . 10 (3): 305–307. ISSN   0036-8237. JSTOR   40399774.
• McConnell, T. R. (1945). "Education for Citizenship in a Democracy". The School Review. 53 (8): 495–497. doi:10.1086/441203. ISSN   0036-6773. JSTOR   1082583. S2CID   146396506.
• Pomfret, John E. (1946). "Rev. of General Education in a Free Society". Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science . 243: 182. doi:10.1177/000271624624300169. ISSN   0002-7162. JSTOR   1025112. S2CID   145439850.
• Pusey, Nathan M. (1946). "Rev. of General Education in a Free Society". The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy. 16 (2): 162–164. doi:10.1086/617231. ISSN   0024-2519. JSTOR   4303463.
• Redfield, Marc (2015). Theory at Yale: The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America. Fordham University Press. ISBN   978-0-8232-6870-2 – via Project MUSE.
• Smith, Wilson; Bender, Thomas, eds. (2008). "The Harvard Report on General Education". American Higher Education Transformed, 1940–2005: Documenting the National Discourse. JHU Press. pp.  14–20. ISBN   978-0-8018-9585-2.
• Tompkins, Ellsworth (1945). "Rev. of General Education in a Free Society". The Journal of Education . 128 (7): 227–230. doi:10.1177/002205744512800711. ISSN   0022-0574. JSTOR   42850459. S2CID   188235459.
• Williams, T. Harry (1946). "Rev. of General Education in a Free Society". The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 32 (4): 583–585. doi:10.2307/1895244. ISSN   0161-391X. JSTOR   1895244.
• Willing, M. H. (1946). "Rev. of General Education in a Free Society". The Journal of Educational Research. 40 (2): 148–149. ISSN   0022-0671. JSTOR   27528768.

External links

• Full text (online) at Internet Archive
• Full text (PDF) at Internet Archive