Reconstructionism focuses on using education to promote social reform and change. It is based on the premise that society needs constant reconstruction or change through reforming education. Modern reconstructionism views education as a pragmatic tool for social reform, building on the philosophies of thinkers like Dewey who saw education as a means to reconstruct society.

2. What is recontructionism ?
Reconstructionism and Education
“ Reconstructionist educators focus on a
curriculum that highlights social reform
as the aim of education. ”

3. Premises of Reconstructionism
Society is in need of constant
reconstruction or change.
Such social change involves
a reconstruction of education
in reconstructing the society
Reconstructionism and Education

5. PLATO’s
design for a
future state
AURELIUS’s
thought to build
a “World State”
ideal C
“
In 380 BC

6. Plato with his design for
a future state called the
Republic.

7. PLATO’s
design for a
future state
AURELIUS’s
thought to build
a “World State”
ideal C
“
In 380 BC

8. PLATO’s
design for a
future state
AURELIUS’s
thought to build
a “World State”
AUGUSTINE’s
ideal Christian state na
“The City of God”
In 2nd Century

9. The Stoic Philosophers
Marcus Aurelius
He maintained that
“He was a citizen of the world, Not a Rome.”

10. PLATO’s
design for a
future state
AURELIUS’s
thought to build
a “World State”
AUGUSTINE’s
ideal Christian state na
“The City of God”
In 2nd Century

11. AURELIUS’s
thought to
build a “World
State”
AUGUSTINE’s
ideal Christian state named
“The City of God”
THOMAS MORE
book named
“Utopia”
In early 5th Century

12. AUGUSTINE’s ideal Christian
state in early 5th century

13. AURELIUS’s
thought to
build a “World
State”
AUGUSTINE’s
ideal Christian state named
“The City of God”
THOMAS MORE
book named
“Utopia”
In early 5th Century

14. AUGUSTINE’s
eal Christian state
ed “The City of God”
THOMAS MORE’s
book named
“Utopia”
Utopian Socialists’
ideal thought of
reconstruction
In early 16th Century

15. THOMAS MORE’s book named
“Utopia” in early 16th century

16. AUGUSTINE’s
eal Christian state
ed “The City of God”
THOMAS MORE’s
book named
“Utopia”
Utopian Socialists’
ideal thought of
reconstruction
In early 16th Century

17. THOMAS MORE’s
book named
“Utopia”
Utopian Socialists’
ideal thought of
reconstruction
OWEN & BELLAM
participation in th
industrial revolutio
During 18th – 19th Century

18. Comte de Saint-Simon
Charles Fourier
François-Noël Babeuf
In French Revolutionary period

19. THOMAS MORE’s
book named
“Utopia”
Utopian Socialists’
ideal thought of
reconstruction
OWEN & BELLAM
participation in th
industrial revolutio
During 18th – 19th Century

20. topian Socialists’
ideal thought of
reconstruction
OWEN & BELLAMY’s
participation in the
industrial revolution
MARX’s
reconstructed wor
based on communi
During 18th – 19th Century

21. They were part of the industrial revolution, but
saw the use of technology not only for the
production of wealth, but for improving the lot of
humanity throughout the world.

22. topian Socialists’
ideal thought of
reconstruction
OWEN & BELLAMY’s
participation in the
industrial revolution
MARX’s
reconstructed wor
based on communi
During 18th – 19th Century

23. WEN & BELLAMY’s
articipation in the
dustrial revolution
MARX’s
reconstructed world
based on communism
RUSSELL’s
principle of Social
Reconstruction
In 19th Century

24. Karl Marx
Karl Marx, decrying the harm done to workers
by the dehumanization of the industrial system, who
pictured a reconstructed world based on
international communism.

25. WEN & BELLAMY’s
articipation in the
dustrial revolution
MARX’s
reconstructed world
based on communism
RUSSELL’s
principle of Social
Reconstruction
In 19th Century

26. MARX’s
reconstructed world
ased on communism
RUSSELL’s
principle of Social
Reconstruction
B.F. SKINNER’s
the use of
“behavioral engineeri
In early 20th Century

27. After World Wars

28. In his Principles of Social
Reconstruction, listed steps that
might be taken to avoid the
holocaust of war.

29. MARX’s
reconstructed world
ased on communism
RUSSELL’s
principle of Social
Reconstruction
B.F. SKINNER’s
the use of
“behavioral engineeri
In early 20th Century

30. RUSSELL’s
principle of Social
Reconstruction
B.F. SKINNER’s
the use of
“behavioral engineering”
MANN & DEW
view of educa
In 20th Century

31. B.F.Skinner
He advocates the use of conditioning
or “behavioral engineering” in his
book Walden Two.
Tradition
al sense
Technology of
behavior

33. RUSSELL’s
principle of Social
Reconstruction
B.F. SKINNER’s
the use of
“behavioral engineering”
MANN & DEW
view of educa
In 20th Century

34. F. SKINNER’s
the use of
vioral engineering”
MANN & DEWEY’s
view of education
.
MODER
RECONSTRUC
In late 20th Century

35. Horace Mann
He is the father of American
public education.
Education = A tool for social reform.

36. F. SKINNER’s
the use of
vioral engineering”
MANN & DEWEY’s
view of education
.
MODER
RECONSTRUC
In late 20th Century

37. MODERN
RECONSTRUCTIONISM

38. Modern Reconstructionist
Modern reconstructionism is
basically pragmatic and owes
tremendous debt to Dewey.

39. MODERN
RECONSTRUCTIONISM

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