A Historical Overview of Educational Theories and Movements, Quizzes of History of Education

Download A Historical Overview of Educational Theories and Movements and more Quizzes History of Education in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Functionalism DEFINITION 1 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 TERM 6 Pragmatism DEFINITION 6 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 TERM 21 David Sneeden DEFINITION 21 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 TERM 26 Social Meliorists DEFINITION 26 Curriculum should bring about social change, Jackson's presidency an example, years of muckraking and such an example as well TERM 27 William Torry Harris DEFINITION 27 HumanistFive windows of the soul TERM 28 G. Stanley Hall DEFINITION 28 DevelopmentalistSchools are in need of drastic reform in order to bring their program of studies in line with scientific findings about the nature of child life TERM 29 George Counts DEFINITION 29 social melioristchallenged schools to meet the social issues of the day TERM 30 John Dewey (Experience and Education) DEFINITION 30 tried to synthesize the positions of the four interest groupsAlways consider the consequences of a decisionCreate a miniature community TERM 31 The "Activity plan" DEFINITION 31 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