Social Reconstructionism in the classroom

Social Reconstructionism in the classroom.

Social reconstructionism essentially says that people are responsible for social conditions, whether good or bad. I decided to choose this theory because I wanted to learn more about why and how these changes in the social community are approached. I found this great website that talked a lot about social reconstructionims in schools. (http://www.examiner.com/x-5448-DC-Public-School-Teacher-Examiner~y2009m4d4-Social-Reconstructionism) It says that schools single handily should shape or reconstruct society. Social Reconstructionism also can start off as deconstructing and putting the boring information policy makers and politicians down because of what they say we have to teach. I think that it is important to develop change in the society and in the text book it states that social reconstructionists were provocative in advocating immediate change from top to bottom. It was based on the faith that the power of science with solve human problems. Social reconstructionists wanted to build the "perfect society". They believed that everyone should be created equal and no one should be extremely well off when another person was suffering. The ultimate goal was to bring the less fortunate situations into positive results. I like the idea of this theory in being concerned about the less fortunate, I don't like to see other people suffer and I think its great to try and solve the problems that caused these people to get in the situations they are in.