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Functionalism
Institutes like living organismTheory of social transmissionFulfill basic functions to surviveSocial structures reproduce, distribute goods and services, allocate powerPick up slack TERM 2
Conflict Theory
DEFINITION 2 Response to functionalismToo staticRather than promote democracy, school reproduces ideologiesReproduction theoryExplicit curriculumHidden curriculum TERM 3
Reproduction Theory
DEFINITION 3 Explicit curriculum hidden curriculumRather than promote democracy/equality, school reproduces ideology of dominant group in society TERM 4
Idealism
DEFINITION 4 O: Reality is duality, world of ideas and changing world of matterOpinion = caveMaterial world temporaryDialectic reasoningE: truth is perfect and eternalA:Search for the good TERM 5
Realism
DEFINITION 5 O: Prime matter, pure form, form and matter separate conceptsAll things exist according to rational designAll things have rational function and purpose E: scientific methodA: good life is attained through scientific skepticism4 idols
Pragmatism
Percept and ConceptO: reality is structured through experienceE: Truth is relative to a particular time, culture, place. We learn by making meaning of our experiences. We learn by solving meaningful problems.A: Through personal experience we form habits, beliefs, feelings and emotions. TERM 7
Colonial Education, America
DEFINITION 7 Religious training, upper class = college, working = apprenticeshipNeither free, public Stratified TERM 8
Education in National
Period
DEFINITION 8 PatriotismNew EnglishAnti-England TERM 9
Era of Common school
DEFINITION 9 Much change occurringJackson in power, era of "common man"Moral obligation to help othersPeriod of acitivismAll allowed to go to school (wellmost anyways) TERM 10
Horace Mann
DEFINITION 10 Father of common schoolFirst state secretary of education in Massachusetts
Noah Webster
Blue back spellersNew English TERM 17
Plato's Cave
DEFINITION 17 Opinion TERM 18
Elwood C. Cubberly
DEFINITION 18 Dean of the College of Education at Stanfordwrote the curriculum and the textbooks that became the standard for preparing public school administratorsSocial efficiency TERM 19
Leonard Ayres
DEFINITION 19 Social efficiencyStudied effects of retardation in schools (retardation = atypical progression through grades)develops the Index of Efficiency for determining the productivity/efficiency of schools TERM 20
Fredrick Winslow Taylor
DEFINITION 20 Social efficiencyEffective management model
David Sneeden
Social efficiencyCurricula built around specific needs of future jobs with objectives of teaching what was need to function in the future roleJunior High School as a time when differences in student abilities become apparent, therefore requiring differentiated curricula TERM 22
Doctrine of Mental Discipline
DEFINITION 22 Plato, theory of forms, material world constantly changingCertain subjects had ability to strengthen Recitation for memory and reasoning TERM 23
Humanists
DEFINITION 23 Curriculum reflects western heritageClassicsLiberal artsAlways seen somewhere TERM 24
Social Effiency/Scientific Management
educators
DEFINITION 24 Curriculum should produce efficient smooth society (vocational) TERM 25
Developmentalists
DEFINITION 25 Curriculum should be based on natural order of child development
The "Activity
plan"
New York, 1920 - 1940, activity based curriculum and learning TERM 32
The Eight-Year Study
DEFINITION 32 Core curriculum (areas of living) Personal living Immediate personal/social relationships Social/Civic relationships Economic relationships TERM 33
The Open Classroom Movement
DEFINITION 33 '70sOpen, free classroomsNo concrete restraints or dynamics TERM 34
Vito Petronne
DEFINITION 34 Open classroom advocateBottoms up reform advocate TERM 35
NCLB
DEFINITION 35 No child left behind, federal legislation in accordance to standardized testing and standard requirements across the board
John Holt
How children failWanted child centered schools/curriculum TERM 37
Jonathan Kozol
DEFINITION 37 Death at an early ageOpen classroom example
