Productive Work and Learning--In Industry and Schools

• Published in: Teachers College Record Vol. 85; no. 1; p. 43
• Main Author: Wirth, Arthur G
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 1983
• Subjects: Education Work Relationship; Educational Change; Educational Philosophy; Elementary Secondary Education; Foreign Countries; Futures (of Society); Industrial Structure; Man Machine Systems; Participative Decision Making; Relevance (Education); Trade and Industrial Education; Work Research Institutes (Norway); Workplace Democracy

If democratic workplace theories now popular in Scandinavian countries were to be widely applied in the United States, major changes would be necessary in education. To produce workers able to participate in problem solving and decision making, the schools would have to liberate learning from author...