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DSST Educational Terms Vocab2
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1. 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
Model minority
Plessy vs Ferguson
Mary McLeon Bethune
E.D. Hirsch
2. 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
Idealism
Social Reconstructivism
Behaviorism
Mary McLeon Bethune
3. School districts typically hired which gender of teachers?
Teacher competency tests
Apprenticeship
men - early on
Education in early colonial times was meant to:
4. Minority (ethic - racial - or religious) groups whose members achieve higher degrees of success than the population average. Ex:Asians=smart
Social Reconstructivism
Model minority
Friedrich Froebel
Progressivism
5. 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.
Perennialists
Teacher competency tests
Common School
Friedrich Froebel
6. Positive rewards for achievement is an example of which philosophy?
Perennialism
Essentialism
Existentialist
Behaviorism
7. Put global effort in to mobilize education in the cause of social justice.
Paulo Friere
Plessy v. Ferguson *School segregation.
Teacher competency tests
Title IX
8. Focuses on teachers. Education isn't focused on student learning.
The new England Primer
Perennialists
Kenneth Clark
Teacher centered philosophy is:
9. 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.
Paulo Friere
Friedrich Froebel
Existentialist
Behaviorism
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.
Title IX
Common School
Existentialist
Horace Mann
11. Exams that cover teachers content areas. Proves teachers are capable.
Title IX
Teacher competency tests
Epistemology
The new England Primer
12. Using the Bible and other Great Books is an example of which philosophy?
Behaviorism
Perennialists
Existentialist
Friedrich Froebel
13. Brown v. Board of Education established what doctrine?
Teacher competency tests
Separate but equal has no place.
Boston Latin School
Education in early colonial times was meant to:
14. 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
John Dewey
The new England Primer
Separate but equal has no place.
Dame School
15. Primary schools in colonial and other early periods in which students were taught by untrained women in the women's own homes.
Dame School
Teacher competency tests
Education in early colonial times was meant to:
Paulo Friere
16. 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
Teacher competency tests
Behaviorism
17. Creative approaches placing children at the center of the curriculum
The new England Primer
E.D. Hirsch
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Plessy v. Ferguson *School segregation.
18. Identified the crippling effects of racism on all American children and formulated community action to overcome the educational - psychological - and economic impacts of racism.
Kenneth Clark
Horace Mann
Friedrich Froebel
Behaviorism
19. 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.
Title IX
Plessy vs Ferguson
Maria Montesorri
Emma Hart Willard
20. Moved people from intellectual slavery to education.
Epistemology
Mary McLeon Bethune
Ethnocentrism
Separate but equal has no place.
21. A doctrine holding that knowledge is derived from ideas and emphasizing moral and spiritual reality as a preeminent source of explanation.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Friedrich Froebel
Dame School
Idealism
22. Basis of textbooks. Style and Essentialism. The first textbook in the 18th century. Still very religious and moral.
De facto segregation
The new England Primer
Behaviorism
Plessy vs Ferguson
23. 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
Horace Mann
Teacher centered philosophy is:
Plessy vs Ferguson
Progressivism
24. Occurred as the result of segregated denial patters. Segregation of racial or other groups resulting from circumstances - such as housing patterns.
Perennialists
Idealism
Education in early colonial times was meant to:
De facto segregation
25. Which court case established the 'Separate but equal' doctrine?
Apprenticeship
Education in early colonial times was meant to:
Perennialism
Plessy v. Ferguson *School segregation.
26. For boys who could afford to pay went on to these schools. First step on the way to creating the American High School.
Boston Latin School
Epistemology
Separate but equal has no place.
Perennialism
27. Centered on the learner. Constant need to make sense of new information. Scaffolding. Links new information. Student and teacher constantly challenge assumptions
Epistemology
Constructivism
E.D. Hirsch
The new England Primer
28. 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
Perennialism
Horace Mann
Existentialist
29. Identifying the educational potential of young children and crafting an environment in which the young could learn.
Maria Montesorri
Separate but equal has no place.
Apprenticeship
Teacher centered philosophy is:
30. Became the nation's leading advocate for the establishment of a common school open to all. 'The father of the public school'
Behaviorism
Horace Mann
Plessy v. Ferguson *School segregation.
Friedrich Froebel
31. A philosophical belief that asserts truth is what works and rejects other views of reality.
Perennialists
Pragmatism
Model minority
Kenneth Clark
32. Emphasis on academics=Such as philosophy and math - Promotion based on mastery of material - Academically rigorous - Curriculum determined by administrators and teachers
Maria Montesorri
Plessy vs Ferguson
Essentialism
Behaviorism
33. A system of training a new generation of teachers of a structured competency based set of skills.
Apprenticeship
Progressivism
Perennialism
Common School
34. 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.
Ethnocentrism
Perennialism
Kenneth Clark
Social Reconstructivism
35. 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
Ethnocentrism
Pragmatism
Separate but equal has no place.
Emma Hart Willard
36. Reading the Bible and understanding religion.
Apprenticeship
Education in early colonial times was meant to:
Perennialists
Epistemology
37. The branch of philosophy that examines the nature of knowledge and learning.
Title IX
De facto segregation
Horace Mann
Epistemology
38. 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
Social Reconstructivism
Paulo Friere
E.D. Hirsch
Friedrich Froebel