General Education in a Free Society

General Education in a Free Society
	Title page for General Education in a Free Society (1950)
Author	Harvard Committee on the Objectives of a General Education in a Free Society, headed by James B. Conant
Subject	Secondary education in the United States
Publisher	Harvard University Press
Publication date	1945
Pages	268
Text	General Education in a Free Society at Internet Archive

General Education in a Free Society, also known as the Harvard Redbook, is a 1945 Harvard University report on the importance of general education in American secondary and post-secondary schools. It is among the most important works in curriculum studies.^[1]

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According to historian Frederick Rudolph, the Redbook called for "a submersion in tradition and heritage and some sense of common bond string enough to bring unbridled ego and ambition under control."^[2]

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[1]
Kridel, Craig, ed. (2010). "General Education in a Free Society (Harvard Redbook)". Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies. Vol. 1. SAGE. pp. 400–402. ISBN 978-1-4129-5883-7.
[2]
Chase, Alston (Jun. 2000). "Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber." The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 285, no. 6. pp. 41-65.

Armstrong, Walter P. (November 1945). "Books for Lawyers: General Education in a Free Society". American Bar Association Journal. 31 (11): 592–594. ISSN 0002-7596. JSTOR 25715400.
Bullough, Robert V. Jr. (1981). "General Education: Bode and the Harvard Report". The Journal of General Education. 33 (2): 102–112. ISSN 0021-3667. JSTOR 27796847.
C., P. W. L. (1945). "Rev. of General Education in a Free Society". The Clearing House. 20 (3): 180–181. ISSN 0009-8655. JSTOR 30178155.
Coffman, George R. (1945). "A New Order". South Atlantic Bulletin. 11 (2): 1–5. doi:10.2307/3198694. ISSN 0038-2868. JSTOR 3198694.
Cutten, George B. (1946). "A Book to Be Studied". The Journal of Higher Education. 17 (2): 109–110. doi:10.1080/00221546.1946.11775473. ISSN 0022-1546. JSTOR 1975632.
Doyle, Henry Grattan (1998). "Una página del pasado / Uma página do passado: Hispania 29 (1946): 69". Hispania. 81 (3): 633. ISSN 0018-2133. JSTOR 345685.
Hatfield, W. Wilbur (1945). "'General' Education". The English Journal. 34 (9): 523–524. doi:10.2307/807946. ISSN 0013-8274. JSTOR 807946.
Holmes, U. T. (1946). "Rev. of General Education in a Free Society". The French Review. 19 (5): 320–321. ISSN 0016-111X. JSTOR 381290.
Huebener, Theodore (1945). "Rev. of General Education in a Free Society". Hispania. 28 (4): 626–627. doi:10.2307/333826. ISSN 0018-2133. JSTOR 333826.
Huse, H. R. (1946). "Harvard and Yale on Foreign Languages". South Atlantic Bulletin. 11 (4): 5–6. doi:10.2307/3198625. ISSN 0038-2868. JSTOR 3198625.
Le Roy, Gaylord (1946). "Rev. of General Education in a Free Society". Science & Society. 10 (3): 305–307. ISSN 0036-8237. JSTOR 40399774.
McConnell, T. R. (1945). "Education for Citizenship in a Democracy". The School Review. 53 (8): 495–497. doi:10.1086/441203. ISSN 0036-6773. JSTOR 1082583. S2CID 146396506.
Pomfret, John E. (1946). "Rev. of General Education in a Free Society". Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 243: 182. doi:10.1177/000271624624300169. ISSN 0002-7162. JSTOR 1025112. S2CID 145439850.
Pusey, Nathan M. (1946). "Rev. of General Education in a Free Society". The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy. 16 (2): 162–164. doi:10.1086/617231. ISSN 0024-2519. JSTOR 4303463.
Redfield, Marc (2015). Theory at Yale: The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America. Fordham University Press. ISBN 978-0-8232-6870-2 – via Project MUSE.
Smith, Wilson; Bender, Thomas, eds. (2008). "The Harvard Report on General Education". American Higher Education Transformed, 1940–2005: Documenting the National Discourse. JHU Press. pp. 14–20. ISBN 978-0-8018-9585-2.
Tompkins, Ellsworth (1945). "Rev. of General Education in a Free Society". The Journal of Education. 128 (7): 227–230. doi:10.1177/002205744512800711. ISSN 0022-0574. JSTOR 42850459. S2CID 188235459.
Williams, T. Harry (1946). "Rev. of General Education in a Free Society". The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 32 (4): 583–585. doi:10.2307/1895244. ISSN 0161-391X. JSTOR 1895244.
Willing, M. H. (1946). "Rev. of General Education in a Free Society". The Journal of Educational Research. 40 (2): 148–149. ISSN 0022-0671. JSTOR 27528768.

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[1] [1]
Kridel, Craig, ed. (2010). "General Education in a Free Society (Harvard Redbook)". Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies. Vol. 1. SAGE. pp. 400–402. ISBN 978-1-4129-5883-7.

[2] [2]
Chase, Alston (Jun. 2000). "Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber." The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 285, no. 6. pp. 41-65.

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Title page for General Education in a Free Society (1950)
Author	Harvard Committee on the Objectives of a General Education in a Free Society, headed by James B. Conant
Subject	Secondary education in the United States
Publisher	Harvard University Press
Publication date	1945
Pages	268
Text	General Education in a Free Society at Internet Archive