DOCUMENT RESUME ED 028 972 sP 002 353 By-Van Ti.Williub The Year 2000: Teacher Education. Indiana State Univ., Terre Haute. Pub Date 68 Note-33p. Available from-Indiana State University, Department of Educationand Psychology, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809 EDRS Price MF-S025 HC-SI.75 Descriptors-*Educational Change, National Demography, SchoolDemography, *Social Change, *Teacher Education In speculating about the future, scholar-prophetscan account for future social changes (such as those induced bycomputer technology) by extrapolating current trends, but "systems breaks,*or sudden changes in the characteristics of a system (caused by biological transformations forinstance) may invalidate their predictions. With that in mind, American society,education, and teacher education in theyear 2000 will be discussed. Over 300 million Americans(75-80 percent in urban areas) will comprise a leisure-oriented society functioning witha shorter work week, sabbaticals for laborers, computer technology,an intellectual leadership group, and persisting socialills. The greatest increasein school enrollment percentages willoccur in colleges, which could be supported by thenation with its GNP of $3 trillion. The teacher, who will bea member of a differentiated staff,may use a curriculum developed by professional federations andteach in a school servingmore than academic needs.Attendance at a four-yearliberalarts college,with more laboratories and field trips,may precede two years of professional education, which will also be extended to inserviceteachers (during their working day) and specialists and paraprofessionals (on sabbaticals).A split between two kinds of teacher educators, scientific researchers andhumanistic philosophers,may be on the horizon. (LP) 1 MI N. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION & WELFARE 4:7" OFFICE OF EDUCATION CO C\J THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRODUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVEDFROM THE CD PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGINATING IT.POINTS OF VIEW OR OPINIONS C) STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT OFFICIAL OFFICE OFEDUCATION 1...L.1 _ POSITION OR POLICY. The Year2000: Teacher Education WILLIAM VAN TIL Coffman Distinguished Professor in Education INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY TERRE HAUTE ! "PEDIISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BYWilliamVaAlli TO ERIC AND ORGANIZATIONS OPERATING UNDER AGREEMENTS WITH THE U.S. OFFICE Of EDUCATION. FURTHER REPRODUCTION OUTSIDE THE ERIC SYSTEM REQUIRES PERMISSION Of THE COPYRIGHT OWNER." © William Van Til1968 Preface join with Professor Van Til in his consideration of the future. With seriousness of purpose, Dr. Van Til has outlined clearly the major facets of life in the year 2000 and its resultant effects on teacher education. If we assume the accuracy of his predictions, we can see demonstrated the need for collaboration on a complete reorien- tation of teacher education to cope adequately with emerging educa- tional dilemmas and with the needs of a changing society in a nation still under stress. And surely the participationofrepresentatives from all disciplines as well as peo- ple from many segments of our social order would be invaluable in this effort to define what kinds of teachers will be needed in the fu- ture. If we are ever to achieve the status of a genuinely great society, we will need a revitalized system of education, especially teacher ed- ucation,thatemphasizesboth man's individuality and his human- ity and prepares him for the most profitable use of his time, knowl- Speculation about life in the fu- edge, and energy. ture has always been both a favor- You are invited then to join with ite parlor game and a serious Professor Van Til as he explores concern of scholars. Although con- the prospects for a different world ditions in the world of the year in the future, and the vitalnew 2000 are often discussed casually, role of teacher educators in dealing it is necessary for educational lead- with the problems that will plague ers to make a concerted and influ- us. The challenges of life in the ential effort at serious planning year 2000 will no doubt appear for the twenty-first century. And awesome, but hopefully, with the because it is inconceivable that our impetus afforded by provocative present system of education can monographs similar to thisone, satisfy our needs thirty years from we may be better prepared to meet now, it is highly desirable for us to these challenges. ALAN C. RANKIN, President Indiana State University By WILLIAM VANTIL TRAVEL The Danube FlowsThrough Fascism Foldboat Holidays(contributor) TEXTBOOKS Economic Roads forAmerican Democracy Time on Your Hands Modern Education forthe Junior High School (with others) Years YEARBOOKS OF THEASSOCIATION FOR SUPERVISION ANDCURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT Americans All (contributor) Toward a New Curriculum(contributor) Leadership ThroughSupervision (contributor) Forces AffectingAmerican Education(editor and contributor) Role of Supervisorand Curriculum Directorin a Climate of Change(contributor) YEARBOOKS OF THENATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIALSTUDIES Democratic HumanRelations (co-editor and contributor) The Study and Teachingof American History (contributor) Education for DemocraticCitizenship (contributor) YEARBOOKS OF THE JOHNDEWEY SOCIETY Intercultural Attitudesin the Making(co-editor and contributor) Educational Freedom inan Age of Anxiety (contributor) YEARBOOK OF THE AMERICANASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES FORTEACHER EDUCATION Recent Research andDevelopments and Their Implications for TeacherEducation (contributor) ENCYCLOPEDIAS Encyclopedia of EducationalResearch (entry on Intercultural Education) UNIT Democracy Demands It (withothers) SPEECHES Great Human Issues ofOur Times (contributor) Modern Viewpoints in theCurriculum (contributor) Humanizing Education (contributor) SELECTIONS The Making of a ModernEducator 4 411.01100 Introduction The Year 2000: Teacher Educa- and in this resultant pamphlet. I tion began when two developments have chosen to speculate as realis- coincided. First, Daedalus, the tically as I could on what might be journal of the American Academy the possible shapes of things to of Arts and Sciences, published a come in society, in education, and, Summer 1967 issue on Toward the finally, in teacher education in par- Year 2000: Work in Progress. The ticular. volume is an account of working sessions and a collection of essays If there was any value in this on specific problems by a distin- exploration for my listeners and if guished group of scholars. I read there will be any value for the the deliberations of the American readers of this pamphlet, it should Academy's Commissiononthe be in encouraging future-oriented Year 2000 avidly and appreciative- dialogue, and in opening discussion ly, though the field of teacher edu- to the end that each of us may par- cation, I foun d, was not on the ticipate still further in influencing agenda of the Commission. whatever future lies ahead. I owe thanks especially to the Daedalus Second, the National Society of contributors ; to those involved in College Teachers of Education in- the project of eight Western vited me to deliver the presidential states, Designing Education for address in Chicago in February, the Future, a series of publications 1968, and the Association for Su- focused on the year 1980 ; to Her- pervision and Curriculum Develop- man Kahn and Anthony J. Wiener ment invited me to address the as- of the Hudson Institute who wrote sembly on teacher education in the volume The Year 2000; to my Atlantic City in March, 1968. Each innumerable predecessors in specu- group allowed me to choose my lation on teacher education today own topic. So I decided to assign and tomorrow ;and to my col- myself the topic, Toward the Year leagues at Indiana State Universi- 2000: Teacher Education.I had ty who have borne with me as I many misgivings about such an en- bothersomely solicited their ideas terprise. My misgivings were only over the past few months in a vari- partially ameliorated by the practi- ety of academic and social settings. cal recognition that not everybody I owe a special thanks to those who in my audiences would be up and have served as panel memberson about during the year 2000 to the two occasions when these ideas check on the validity of my specu- were delivered as an address. I owe lations. extensive thanks to my colleagues in the National Society of College But, in attempting to look ahead, Teachers of Education who cooper- I have had an exciting and, for me, ated in publication of this materi- important experience which will al in speech form and who permit- influence my own thoughts and ac- ted me to publish the entire manu- tions. It is important to understand script with supporting footnotes in that I have not attempted to con- the form in which the material is struct a Utopia in my two talks, now presented in this pamphlet in my speech as published by NSCTE, the reader's hands. WILLIAM VAN TIL Published by Indiana State University Terre Haute, Indiana 1968 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page The Year Preface President Alan C. Rankin 3 2000: Introduction 5 Teacher On Speculating on The Future 9 Education American Society in The Year 2000 15 American Education in The Year 2000 23 Teacher Education in The Year 2000 29 On Speculatingonthe Future Some maysay, "But the year 2000 is faraway!" Is it, really ? The year 2000 is as far in thefuture as theyear 1936 is in the past. From 1968, the year 2000 is thirty-twoyears away ; so is theyear 1936. Historians will pointout parallels between1936 after the initiation Df Franklin D.Roosevelt's New Dealprogram