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Social reconstructionism began with an address titled "Dare Progressive Education Be Progressive?" by Columbia University educator George S. Counts. Speaking to the 1932 convention of the Progressive Education Association, Counts bemoaned the lack of success progressive education had in changing educational curriculum in the 1920s — in many ways a stock complaint of the progressives. He went on, however, to argue that the opponents of progressivism were the same people whose laissez-faire economics, hierarchical social ethic, and conservative political outlook were responsible for the Depression. Counts suggested these individuals be replaced by progressive educators as the leaders of American society and that progressive educators turn the classroom into a forum for political education and social consciousness-raising. The idea was instantly attractive to many educators. By the next year social reconstructionism was a formal educational movement, centered on a group of intellectuals at the Teachers...
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