Barometers of Change: Individual, Educational and Social Transformation - Tapa dura

This collection of essays explores the discrete events and trends - the social barometers - that have coalesced to produce the world we know today. The author covers a range of subjects, including sexual liberation, changes in childbearing, the growing tension between individual and community rights, and the increasingly politicized dynamics of social institutions (and schools in particular). Through an analysis of the past, Sarason seeks to enable the reader to understand and recognize the elements that will have the biggest impact on the future.

"Heeding his own statement that leaving your society unexamined is doing no favor to the worth of your society, Seymour Sarason spreads before us a revealing canvas showing where he and millions of us have been during the fast-moving second half of the twentieth century." --John Goodlad, professor and director, Center for Educational Renewal, University of Washington, SeattleThis insightful book taps into current concerns over changes in school, home, workplace, and society at large. Sarason examines sexual liberation, changes in child-rearing patterns and attitudes on the abortion issue, the growing tension between individual and community rights, and the increasingly politicized dynamics of social institutions in general and schools in particular. Through his acute analysis of the past, Sarason enables us to understand and recognize the elements that will have the biggest impact on our future.