Re-Enchantment of School Bureaucracy: The Historical Relationship between Rationality and Romanticism

Autor/in	Diehl, David
Titel	Re-Enchantment of School Bureaucracy: The Historical Relationship between Rationality and Romanticism
Quelle	In: Educational Theory, 67 (2017) 3, S.291-307 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-2004
DOI	10.1111/edth.12251
Schlagwörter	Educational Theories; Social Sciences; Administrative Organization; Role of Education; Romanticism; Alienation; Social Change; Logical Thinking; Educational Objectives; Diversity (Institutional); Standards; Community; Accountability; Creativity; Efficiency + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational theory; Theory of education; Bildungstheorie; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Bildungsauftrag; Romantik; Entfremdung; Sozialer Wandel; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Standard; Verantwortung; Kreativität; Effectiveness; Effektivität; Wirkungsgrad
Abstract	"Disenchantment" has been a popular trope in the social sciences since Max Weber's appropriation of the term nearly a century ago. In recent years, however, scholars have come to argue that, in contrast to the standard modernization story of unabated rationalization, organizations have long been subject to countervailing forces. In this essay, David Diehl uses modern reinterpretations of the "disenchantment" thesis to suggest that the structure of contemporary schooling is the product of ongoing cultural efforts to re-enchant public life by infusing rational bureaucracy with Romantic impulses in order to combat alienation and social fragmentation. Moreover, Diehl argues that the changing relationship between rationality and Romanticism has taken a unique form in the contemporary period and that recognizing this helps us to better understand the paradoxical modern push for schools to achieve seemingly incompatible goals such as diversity and standardization, community and accountability, and creativity and efficiency. (As Provided).
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