William O. Stanley

William Oliver Stanley,Jr. is a former professor in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at the Urbana College of Education. He was one of the founders of the social foundations of education, an approach to the sociology of education.[1]

Biography

Stanley was a former journalist and combattant for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, and a member of the Communist Party of the USA in the 1930s. After World War II, he became a member of the early anti-Communist Congress for Cultural Freedom, but was shocked by later excesses of McCarthyism.

References

  1. ↑ James, Michael E. (1995-01-01). Social reconstruction through education: the philosophy, history, and curricula of a radical ideal. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 14–. ISBN 978-1-56750-145-2. Retrieved 25 September 2011.

Author of "Education and Social Integration," Bureau of Publications, Teachers college Columbia University, New York, 1953, which contains ideas, especially in Chapter 10, Approaches to a Disciplined Methodology of Discussion, and Chapter 11, Method and the Democratic Ethic in the Formulation of Public Policy, which anticipate those which are the major theme of Jurgen Habermas' major work The theory of Communicative Action, 1981 (German), 1984 (vol 1) and 1986 (vol 2) (English).


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