This article examines the values and typifications that underlie the conservative center of society; whether they are still viable in view of our ecological situation, and how they are reinforced in curriculum materials. (MM)

Revisionist educational historians tend to analyze American education in light of Marxist theories of social class without giving due consideration to the fact that technology and bureaucracy are the dominant political and cultural forces affecting education in the 20th century. A review of educational debate during the 1960s and 1970s indicates…