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21 Cards in this Set
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What are the major tenets of essentialism?
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A core of information, hard work and mental discipline, and teacher-centered instruction.
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What are the major tenets of behaviorism?
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Careful examination of the environment, behaviors, and external stimuli.
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What are the major tenets of positivism?
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Limitations on knowledge to statements of observable fact based on sense perceptions and the investigation of objective reality
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What are the major tenets of progressivism?
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Ideas should be tested by experimentation, and learning is rooted in questions developed by learners.
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What are the major tenets of humanism?
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Education is a process of developing a free, self-actualizing person.
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What are the major tenets of constructivism?
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Personal meaning is developed using hands-on, activity-based teaching and learning.
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What is the behaviorist learning focus?
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To influence student behavior by carefully controlling classroom stimuli.
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What is the essentialist learning focus?
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To transmit cultural heritage and develop good citizens.
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What is the positivist learning focus?
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To clearly and precisely identify and state what a student needs to learn and master.
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What is the progressivist learning focus?
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To improve society by emphasizing the democratic process of education.
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What is the constructivist learning focus?
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To educate through the use of student-centered problems.
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What is the humanistic learning focus?
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To educate without coercion or prescription.
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An educator who possesses a teacher-centered philosophy would do which of the following?
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Arrange the classroom desks in rows.
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When a student’s motivation is to “understand,” the concept of power is best described as which of the following?
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Knowledge.
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What is the noninterventionist view regarding classroom discipline?
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Teachers should not impose their own rules on students.
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What is the interventionist view regarding classroom discipline?
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Teachers set classroom standards for conduct
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What is the interactionist view regarding classroom discipline?
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The solution to misbehavior is reciprocity between student and teacher.
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What are some key components of classroom climate?
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Student voice and authentic public space.
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To which of the following do you subscribe if you are a change agent who believes in change as adaptation?
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Stability in schools and acceptance of current society.
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To which of the following do you subscribe if you are a change agent who believes in change as rational?
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Schools have a role in social change
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To which of the following do you subscribe if you are a change agent who believes in change as dialectic?
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Schools mediate tension between individual freedom and responsibility to the community.
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