Technology versus Craft: A Ten Year Perspective on Innovation

Over the past decade a number of remarkable changes have occurred both in education and in society as a whole. Many of these changes have been the result of broad social pressures, and indeed some scholars of educational change have asserted that the only manner in which education can change is through the effects of these more sweeping forces. One lucid account of how demographic and political shifts have affected education in England has been provided by Kogan.1 He recounts the post-war interaction of education with other social institutions. In the United States, Atkin2 has provided an account of how curriculum development relätes to larger social trends.