William O. Stanley
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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]
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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.
Author of Social Foundations of Education
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- ^ 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 9781567501452. http://books.google.com/books?id=Rq7B_-lFQtcC&pg=PR14. Retrieved 25 September 2011.
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