Foundations Of Education Midterm

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What factors oustide of the classroom affect student performance and growth?

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parental involvement, community, health, SES, extrenuating circumstances, media, extracarricular activities, interests, family situation

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Functionalist Perspective

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Purpose of schoo: to preserve a common set of values that foster social unity and maintain social order.

-students get knowledge that helps them become responsible and producive citizens and compete in the global economy
-school contributes to the economic growth and development through its effect on productivity by upgrading the skills of the labor force
-plays important role in developing moral character

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Conflict Theory Perspective

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-believe schools are in place to keep people poor and stupid
-serve the wealthy and powerful at the expense of the disadvantaged

-tell working and lower class to conform to the values and beliefs that are necessary to maintain the existin social order

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Interactive Perspecitive

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-a mix of the other two

-education is a interaction in the social setting of school

-Labeling ("gifted", "learning disabled")

-self fulfilling prophecy

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What determines SES and why is it important

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determined by a number of variables, including wealth and income, education, occupation, power, and prestige

the effects of poverty are seen early in a child's development. Prenatal care. At a disadvantage from the start and often have lower achievement

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No child left behind: For and Against

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For:
-creates some standard for the education of the children
-has raised awareness of many issues in the educational system
-improved test scores
-attention to minority populations

Against:
-takes individualism out
-someone will always get left out, now no one rises above either
-no enjoyment of school left
-people cheat the tests
-not much decision left to teacher
-very narrow curriculum "teaching to the test"

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Is teaching a profession?

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No. Should be. but its not.
-Teachers aren't necessarily the only people who can offer the service of teaching.
-Not a long period of training compared to that of a doctor or lawyer. Bachelors degree not adequate for a profession...
-Individual teachers don't make the decisions about their workforce, like regulating their activities.
-self-governing and responsible for policing its own ranks? no.

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Should curriculum be standardized for all?

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Heck no!
-takes enjoyment out of school.
-eliminates teachers ability to care for the individual
-teaches to the middle, leaves lower and upper students out
-eliminates tech school and alternative class choices wich deprives students of training but doesn't change their path necessarily.

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hegemony

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the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others

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Authentic assessment

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a form of evaluation based on the cooperation between the student and teacher, student and student, teacher and administrator, and community and teacher

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what is humanism and how does it continue to influence public schooling

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emphasized the importance of human beings and promoted the literature and art of classical Rome and Greece.

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thinker that supports my educational ideals

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Comenius-Learning must come through the senses. Education must allow the child to reason by doing. There is a general body of knowledge that should be possessed by all.

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Northwest Land Ordinances

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16th section of land in each township in the territory be set aside for education
-"religion, morality, and knowledge necessary to good gov'ment and happiness of mankind"

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Horace Mann...Common School...

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Common school: publicly supported schools attended in common by all children
-beginning of modern ed sys

Horace Mann: convinced ppl to send their kids to school rather than work cos it would make better workers which would equal economic dominance
-fought for the professional training of teachers. established normal schools (teacher training institutes)

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title ix

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no girls left out of sports.

equal amts must go to female activities and male ones

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argue against behavioralism

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-does not foster a love of learning.
-treats children as if they are predisposed not to learn or behave and need to be molded in order to be so
-purpose of schooling said nothing about learning...
-the description of the teacher said nothing about knowledge other than educational phychology

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assimilation

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a response to population diversityh that requires conformity to a single model, which is largely defined by traditional British political, social, cultural, and religious institutes

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Socialization

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The process by which persons are conditioned to the customs or patterns of a particular culture

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Americanization

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term used for the influence the United States of America has on the culture of other countries on such matters like technology, culture, lifestyle

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diff btw metaphysics, axiology, and epistemology

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metaphysics-The branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of reality and existence

axiology-branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of values

epistemology-branch of philosphy concerned with the investigation of the nature of knowledge

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Immigration, Industrialization, Urbanization led to what?

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catholics began private schools because of it

led to common curriculum taxes

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high-stakes testing

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used to determine who whold be promoted and who would graduate from high school

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Sputnik...so what

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National Defense Education Act(NDEA)-by directing significant fed funding to specific curricular areas, such as math, science, and modern foreign languages, the fed gov for the first time attempted to influence the curriculum in general el and sec education.

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ESEA is now called...

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No Child Left Behind

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Jefferson, Du Bois, and Plato: simlarities/differences

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In Common:they all fought for equal education. Both Plato and Jefferson thought education should be available but that onle a certain few should continue to the top of it


Differences:Dubois took more of a miliant approach to it

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critique essentialism

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-ignores many subjects that are important

-not very much student involvement in the lessons

-The assessments are all very test based and involve practically no involved reasoning or thinking. No deep knowdedge of the material needed.