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