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On American High School Social Service Function

Posted on:2004-07-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S C XuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360092491596Subject:History of education
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Education is a social activity of cultivating people ,which have three characters of purpose,plan and organization.It's more and more obvious that higher education has a direct effect on nation's development.Meanwhile,because of the direct relationship between higher education and social development ,it is more and more urgent to reform and adjust higher education .It became a focuse how to bring into play it's social service function to make it real service station,shoudering the responsibility endowed by history.American high school play a important role in social service function in history,and make a great contribution to development of American capitalism and set a example for the development of other nation's high school.Undoutelyjt's very meaningful and useful for reformation and development of our high school to research social service function of American high school.So the article explored the course of forming and development of social service function of American high school and seek the law of it ,in order to get some beneficial experiences and lessons for our social service function of high school from it.This article is made up four parts:Firstly,this article introduced the start of social service function of American high school.lt including the establishing Pennnsylvania institute and Virginia University was set up. We can draw a conclusion that Franklin and Jefferson are forerunner of social service function of American high school of establishing. Athough they didn't directely advanced this thought of high school servicing the society.they established the high school for social needs and development the pragmatic science. Secondly, the article introduced the forming of social service function of American high school in details. It include: (1) Publishing and history meaning of Morill Act.lt offered the legal foundation to social service function of American high school,made preparation of theory and lay the solid practical foundation;(2) The foundation of Cornell University.Cornell university developed the spirits of Morill Act and lay the foundation for Wisconsin Idea;(3) the establishing and effect of Wisconsin Idea. The forming of this idea symbolized that the function of social service formlly acted as one of the three roles of American high school. This procedure set up a new model which reflected practical educational values of American and developing tendency of the worldwide high education,indicating the new era of high education is coming.During a half century, from Morill Act to Cornell University to Wisconsin Idea,the social service function of American high school was set up afterall .From then on ,the traditional and separated systems was transformed to be public servicestation.Thirdly.it introduced in details about the development of the social service function of American high school.Including (1) Social service of community college.Community college developed Wisconsin Idea,esp,after the second war it meted the all kinds of needs of community;(2)The cooperation between high school and enterprise.lt symbolizied the social service of American high school have transferred from the period of simple knowledge and manpower output to the period of practical operation.lt strengthed social service;(3) interactive university.The formity and development of interactive university symbolized the high level of the social service function of American high school.Finally the article analyze and discuss the reasons for development of social service function of American high school. (l)Analyzing the reasons ,the writer get three reasons for it's forming after studying the history of development of social service function of American high school.First .foundation of society and culture.Second.the needs of science and technologic development.Third,intervening of federal government.(2)Inspiration for us.lt offer a lot of useful experience to our education reforming.The following aspects are analyzed deeply by author:first,renewing the idea of education and setting up social ser...
Keywords/Search Tags:America, function, high school, social service function
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