Current Trends In Educational Publishing: A Personal View

Follett, Robert J.R.

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Title

Current Trends In Educational Publishing: A Personal View

Author(s)

Follett, Robert J.R.

Issue Date

1967

Keyword(s)

Publishers and publishing --United States

Abstract

Perhaps the most distinctive characteristic of our times is the rapid increase in the rate of change. In whatever field one cares to look, the pace of change is accelerating. This is certainly true of education. Because educational publishing serves education, the really important trends in educational publishing are the result of changes in education or in society's view of education. My thesis, stated briefly and straightforwardly, is that there are two major trends at work in American education. The first is a shift in society's view of education: once considered an expense, education is now seen as an -Investment. The second is a shift in the emphasis from teaching to learning. Education as investment. Education as learning. These two phrases embody the ideas I hope to clarify and embroider. It will quickly be seen that the most important trends in educational publishing are a consequence of these two trends in education.

Publisher

Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Allerton Park Institute (14th : 1967)

ISSN

0536-4604

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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