Many theorists explained what education should be like for children. Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Dewey and Piaget explained that children develop naturally. It is through play, exploring, …show more content…
As a result, the United States was in turmoil. It affected many people but mostly it affected the poor and working class. Society at that point lived on the belief that what you earned and where you came from determined your life destiny. Schools functioned on the same premise. They prepared students based on what your family earned and where they came from. They readied the students to become workers. Workers who needed to produce the needs and desires of the economy. This was a huge problem. At an early age these students were taught that this was their life and that thinking about the future years to come did not matter at this point. Education seemed very much like the process of a factory. They have one mold and they were going to mass-produce as many as they could to support the need in the outside …show more content…
This movement was look at to get rid of “anticolonial, antiracist, anti-patriarchal and curriculum development” (Kincheloe, 2009). During this recovery movement, schooling became a private concern. This concern did not focus giving the resources to students or graduates to become socially adequate for society but rather give these students the resources in which they need to change their socioeconomic status. In this case referring back to Groenke, during the great depression students were taught at the level in which they presumed to be at based on economic status and ability. In this case the idea is being altered. Resources should be given to those students who show higher level thinking capabilities that could independently change their status no matter what level they are on. However in this case, it can be concluded that socioeconomic mobility still focuses on those students that have higher advantages in life.
In early childhood education this focus is not there. Today, Educators in early childhood education have a moral commitment to get rid of any pre-conceived notions about the child before actually dealing with the child. In early education this is easier to being as most of the students have a smaller foundation of knowledge. They are in the stage where guidance and support is critical in expanding their schema. The recovery as mentioned before has helped educators maintain this moral commitment