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DSST Educational Terms Vocab2
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1. Creative approaches placing children at the center of the curriculum
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Essentialism
Ethnocentrism
Teacher centered philosophy is:
2. Put global effort in to mobilize education in the cause of social justice.
Paulo Friere
Teacher competency tests
Kenneth Clark
Boston Latin School
3. For boys who could afford to pay went on to these schools. First step on the way to creating the American High School.
Dame School
Paulo Friere
Boston Latin School
The new England Primer
4. Moved people from intellectual slavery to education.
Boston Latin School
Mary McLeon Bethune
Existentialist
Behaviorism
5. A doctrine holding that knowledge is derived from ideas and emphasizing moral and spiritual reality as a preeminent source of explanation.
Idealism
Apprenticeship
Social Reconstructivism
Perennialists
6. Positive rewards for achievement is an example of which philosophy?
Friedrich Froebel
Ethnocentrism
Behaviorism
Epistemology
7. Education based on needs and interests of students - Students learn better by doing=Teaching through field trips and games - Emphasis on natural and social sciences - Experiential learning
Progressivism
The new England Primer
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Horace Mann
8. Became the nation's leading advocate for the establishment of a common school open to all. 'The father of the public school'
Maria Montesorri
Friedrich Froebel
Horace Mann
Pragmatism
9. Emphasis on academics=Such as philosophy and math - Promotion based on mastery of material - Academically rigorous - Curriculum determined by administrators and teachers
Title IX
Mary McLeon Bethune
Essentialism
E.D. Hirsch
10. A philosophy that emphasizes the ability of an individual to determine the course and nature of his or her life and the importance of personal decision making.
Plessy v. Ferguson *School segregation.
Existentialist
Maria Montesorri
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
11. Identified the crippling effects of racism on all American children and formulated community action to overcome the educational - psychological - and economic impacts of racism.
Essentialism
Dame School
Plessy v. Ferguson *School segregation.
Kenneth Clark
12. Focus on classic ideas that have survived over time. Develop reason and moral qualities. Teacher-centered. Focus on concepts rather than facts. Emphasis on learning for learning's sake
Perennialists
Idealism
Perennialism
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
13. The most influential educator of the twentieth century and on e of the most controversial. Progressive education. Broadened education to include health - family and community life - vocational education - psychology
Plessy v. Ferguson *School segregation.
Common School
John Dewey
Emma Hart Willard
14. An essentialist that advocated for a more inclusive curriculum that offers all students a shared knowledge - a common curriculum. Authored Cultural Literacy:What Every American Needs to Know and The Knowledge Deficit. Core Knowledge
Mary McLeon Bethune
E.D. Hirsch
Title IX
De facto segregation
15. A system of training a new generation of teachers of a structured competency based set of skills.
Apprenticeship
Friedrich Froebel
Separate but equal has no place.
Constructivism
16. Exams that cover teachers content areas. Proves teachers are capable.
Paulo Friere
Behaviorism
Dame School
Teacher competency tests
17. School districts typically hired which gender of teachers?
Epistemology
Education in early colonial times was meant to:
Dame School
men - early on
18. Occurred as the result of segregated denial patters. Segregation of racial or other groups resulting from circumstances - such as housing patterns.
Title IX
Friedrich Froebel
Social Reconstructivism
De facto segregation
19. Centered on the learner. Constant need to make sense of new information. Scaffolding. Links new information. Student and teacher constantly challenge assumptions
Horace Mann
E.D. Hirsch
Paulo Friere
Constructivism
20. Views free will as an illusion. Reality based on scientific observation. Positive rewards encourage desired behavior. Curriculum based on incremental learning and controlled by school personnel.
Plessy vs Ferguson
Education in early colonial times was meant to:
Dame School
Behaviorism
21. The tendency to view one's own culture as superior to others - or to fail to consider other cultures in a fair or equitable manner.
Dame School
Pragmatism
Model minority
Ethnocentrism
22. Focuses on teachers. Education isn't focused on student learning.
Horace Mann
Ethnocentrism
Teacher centered philosophy is:
Emma Hart Willard
23. A public - tax-supported school. First established in Massachusetts - the school's purpose was to create a common basis of knowledge for children. It usually refers to a public elementary school.
Common School
Teacher centered philosophy is:
Pragmatism
Separate but equal has no place.
24. In 1837 Froebel founded the first kindergarten to cultivate the child's development and socialization. Believed in the importance of establishing an emotionally secure environment for children. Established kindergarten as an integral part of children
Boston Latin School
Teacher centered philosophy is:
Essentialism
Friedrich Froebel
25. Open the Troy Female Seminary - devoted to preparing professional teachers - thus providing a teacher education program years before the first normal (teacher training) school was founded. Wrote and disseminated her views on opening higher education
John Dewey
men - early on
E.D. Hirsch
Emma Hart Willard
26. Reading the Bible and understanding religion.
Common School
Existentialist
Education in early colonial times was meant to:
Title IX
27. An 1896 Supreme Court decision that upheld that 'separate but equal' was legal and that they races could be segregated. it was overturned in 1954 by Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka.
Model minority
Epistemology
Social Reconstructivism
Plessy vs Ferguson
28. Brown v. Board of Education established what doctrine?
Mary McLeon Bethune
Separate but equal has no place.
Friedrich Froebel
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
29. Basis of textbooks. Style and Essentialism. The first textbook in the 18th century. Still very religious and moral.
The new England Primer
Existentialist
Ethnocentrism
De facto segregation
30. Using the Bible and other Great Books is an example of which philosophy?
Social Reconstructivism
Perennialists
Paulo Friere
Progressivism
31. Primary schools in colonial and other early periods in which students were taught by untrained women in the women's own homes.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Dame School
Emma Hart Willard
Behaviorism
32. A philosophical belief that asserts truth is what works and rejects other views of reality.
Teacher centered philosophy is:
Pragmatism
Plessy v. Ferguson *School segregation.
Perennialists
33. The branch of philosophy that examines the nature of knowledge and learning.
Dame School
De facto segregation
Epistemology
Plessy vs Ferguson
34. Minority (ethic - racial - or religious) groups whose members achieve higher degrees of success than the population average. Ex:Asians=smart
Teacher competency tests
Model minority
Common School
Separate but equal has no place.
35. A view of education as a way to improve the quality of life - to reduce the chances of conflict - and to create a more humane world. Physical world as the basis of reality.Learn from meaningful social experiences. Focus on social - political - and ec
Social Reconstructivism
Common School
Essentialism
Horace Mann
36. Identifying the educational potential of young children and crafting an environment in which the young could learn.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Title IX
Maria Montesorri
The new England Primer
37. A provision of the 1972 Educational Amendments that prohibits sex discrimination in any educational program receiving federal financial assistance. (A quality for females in curriculum and extra curriculum activities)
Common School
Title IX
E.D. Hirsch
Education in early colonial times was meant to:
38. Which court case established the 'Separate but equal' doctrine?
De facto segregation
Plessy v. Ferguson *School segregation.
Apprenticeship
Ethnocentrism