A Simplistic Tool for a Lethal Phenomenon

Abstract

This chapter assesses the emergence and consolidation of social efficiency as the dominant curriculum tradition. The chapter unpacks how at the turn of the twentieth century, the US education initiated a new cycle in the “social project of Americanization,” completely in sync with the new and volatile demands imposed by Industrialism, a cycle championed by pedagogues such as John Franklin Bobbitt deeply influenced by Taylor and Ross social efficiency theories—a cycle quite dominant nowadays still.