In search of a transactional model for educational intervention: Reactions to Farber and Lewis

Abstract

Sociologists Bernard Farber and Michael Lewis ask from a social system perspective, Why have compensatory educational programs failed?l They maintain that the assumptions underlying the basic idea of compensatory education are faulty and that the espousal of the compensatory strategy is largely determined by the presence of potent needs and interests in modern American Society.2 They call for educators to become independent field teachers and assert: