Educational Reconstructionism The Philosophy And...

Think of the following situation: a world where the generation of children, teens, and young adults are actively thinking of the future and what to do to help the world become a better place. Some say that this is unrealistic. There are many of you believe that the children, teens, and young adults, are primarily focused on themselves too much to every consider the world as a whole. The true fact is that in general, these younger generations are not even given an opportunity to think outside of their own self-centered mindset. William H. Fisher wrote in his article, â€Å"Introducing Educational Reconstructionism: The Philosophy and Practice of Transforming Society Through Education†, that Educational Reconstructionism is consistently ignored (para. 1). Fisher explains that the reason for this is the hope that anything that is not conservative in nature will be forgotten and lost, but Educational Reconstructionism has persistently made its way into our society; it has probabl y more so now than ever before. For citing in text you need to include the author’s last name and year of publication. If you want to give additional info that is ok but you must include these two parts. To truly understand Educational Reconstructionism, it is important to know where it began. It all started when philosophy and history began to intermingle with each other. The idea of moving from the far right and crossing lines into the left wing. FDR (don’t assume people know who FDR is. If you use