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Tiêu đề
Gordon Keith Chalmers and the Politics of Advanced Placement
Tác giả
Abrams A.
Năm xuất bản
2022
Source title
Journal of American Studies
Số trích dẫn
0
DOI
10.1017/S0021875821001262
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
This article investigates the role of mid-century conservatism in shaping the College Board's Advanced Placement program. Kenyon president Gordon Keith Chalmers and superintendent of New Trier public schools William Cornog, who led the committee that directly gave rise to the AP Program, understood themselves as classically liberal but socially conservative, and their proposed program was rooted in principles associated with that movement. In keeping with other mid-century conservative thinkers, they promoted humanistic inquiry that introduced all American students, regardless of backgrounds, to the notion of individual freedom, in spaces set apart from economic activity. This article explains that Chalmers and Cornog agreed that schools should focus on reinforcing and transmitting a distinctly American heritage of constitutionalism, individualism, and universal morality by way of the liberal arts. The article ends by establishing how this ideological framing contradicts the Advanced Placement program's current shape. Copyright © 2021 The Author(s).
Từ khóa
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Nơi xuất bản
Cambridge University Press
Hình thức xuất bản
Article
Open Access
Nguồn
Scopus