Commentaires sur : The compromise I have worked out draws from historian David Tyack’s conclusion that contemporary decisionmakers already have a picture in their minds of what the past was like. Accurate or not, they will formulate policy based on those blurred images of the past. Like Tyack, I believe that more accurate renderings of the past than currently exist can inform the present not by prescribing particular policies but in helping educational decision makers, again in Tyack’s words: “not only to use a sense of the past (which they do willy-nilly) but also to make sense of it.” (“Historical Perspectives on the School as a Social Service Institution,” 1979, p. 56)

Commentaires sur : The compromise I have worked out draws from historian David Tyack’s conclusion that contemporary decisionmakers already have a picture in their minds of what the past was like. Accurate or not, they will formulate policy based on those blurred images of the past. Like Tyack, I believe that more accurate renderings of the past than currently exist can inform the present not by prescribing particular policies but in helping educational decision makers, again in Tyack’s words: “not only to use a sense of the past (which they do willy-nilly) but also to make sense of it.” (“Historical Perspectives on the School as a Social Service Institution,” 1979, p. 56) https://lyonelkaufmann.ch/histoire/2010/07/23/can-historians-help-school-reformers-larry-cuban-on/ Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:16:18 +0000 hourly 1