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DSST Educational Terms Vocab2
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1. Moved people from intellectual slavery to education.
Mary McLeon Bethune
Plessy v. Ferguson *School segregation.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Progressivism
2. 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.
Existentialist
Title IX
John Dewey
Education in early colonial times was meant to:
3. Became the nation's leading advocate for the establishment of a common school open to all. 'The father of the public school'
E.D. Hirsch
Common School
Horace Mann
Ethnocentrism
4. Identified the crippling effects of racism on all American children and formulated community action to overcome the educational - psychological - and economic impacts of racism.
Maria Montesorri
Essentialism
Idealism
Kenneth Clark
5. Identifying the educational potential of young children and crafting an environment in which the young could learn.
E.D. Hirsch
Boston Latin School
Maria Montesorri
Progressivism
6. 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
De facto segregation
Teacher centered philosophy is:
men - early on
Emma Hart Willard
7. 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
Separate but equal has no place.
Idealism
Teacher competency tests
Perennialism
8. Emphasis on academics=Such as philosophy and math - Promotion based on mastery of material - Academically rigorous - Curriculum determined by administrators and teachers
Separate but equal has no place.
Social Reconstructivism
Essentialism
Paulo Friere
9. Using the Bible and other Great Books is an example of which philosophy?
Perennialists
Mary McLeon Bethune
Epistemology
Constructivism
10. 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
Behaviorism
E.D. Hirsch
Progressivism
Boston Latin School
11. Brown v. Board of Education established what doctrine?
Separate but equal has no place.
Progressivism
Constructivism
Maria Montesorri
12. Put global effort in to mobilize education in the cause of social justice.
Social Reconstructivism
Paulo Friere
Behaviorism
Title IX
13. Centered on the learner. Constant need to make sense of new information. Scaffolding. Links new information. Student and teacher constantly challenge assumptions
Progressivism
Constructivism
Epistemology
Perennialists
14. 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
Boston Latin School
Social Reconstructivism
Apprenticeship
Ethnocentrism
15. Which court case established the 'Separate but equal' doctrine?
Model minority
Apprenticeship
Plessy v. Ferguson *School segregation.
Friedrich Froebel
16. 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.
Kenneth Clark
Ethnocentrism
Common School
Apprenticeship
17. 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.
Kenneth Clark
Progressivism
Behaviorism
Existentialist
18. Minority (ethic - racial - or religious) groups whose members achieve higher degrees of success than the population average. Ex:Asians=smart
John Dewey
Teacher competency tests
Model minority
men - early on
19. School districts typically hired which gender of teachers?
Constructivism
Dame School
Existentialist
men - early on
20. A philosophical belief that asserts truth is what works and rejects other views of reality.
Horace Mann
Pragmatism
Emma Hart Willard
Constructivism
21. Exams that cover teachers content areas. Proves teachers are capable.
Separate but equal has no place.
Teacher competency tests
Title IX
Plessy vs Ferguson
22. Positive rewards for achievement is an example of which philosophy?
Friedrich Froebel
Perennialism
Behaviorism
Boston Latin School
23. A doctrine holding that knowledge is derived from ideas and emphasizing moral and spiritual reality as a preeminent source of explanation.
Plessy v. Ferguson *School segregation.
Boston Latin School
Behaviorism
Idealism
24. 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.
The new England Primer
John Dewey
Paulo Friere
Plessy vs Ferguson
25. Focuses on teachers. Education isn't focused on student learning.
Teacher centered philosophy is:
The new England Primer
Social Reconstructivism
Paulo Friere
26. For boys who could afford to pay went on to these schools. First step on the way to creating the American High School.
Constructivism
Boston Latin School
Perennialism
De facto segregation
27. The branch of philosophy that examines the nature of knowledge and learning.
Behaviorism
Plessy vs Ferguson
Mary McLeon Bethune
Epistemology
28. 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.
Teacher competency tests
Teacher centered philosophy is:
Apprenticeship
Ethnocentrism
29. Primary schools in colonial and other early periods in which students were taught by untrained women in the women's own homes.
Dame School
Essentialism
Teacher centered philosophy is:
Boston Latin School
30. 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)
Perennialism
Behaviorism
Paulo Friere
Title IX
31. 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
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Friedrich Froebel
Constructivism
32. Creative approaches placing children at the center of the curriculum
Education in early colonial times was meant to:
Constructivism
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Emma Hart Willard
33. Reading the Bible and understanding religion.
Existentialist
Perennialists
Social Reconstructivism
Education in early colonial times was meant to:
34. Basis of textbooks. Style and Essentialism. The first textbook in the 18th century. Still very religious and moral.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Idealism
The new England Primer
Plessy vs Ferguson
35. A system of training a new generation of teachers of a structured competency based set of skills.
Apprenticeship
Perennialism
Mary McLeon Bethune
Emma Hart Willard
36. 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
Social Reconstructivism
Title IX
The new England Primer
Progressivism
37. Occurred as the result of segregated denial patters. Segregation of racial or other groups resulting from circumstances - such as housing patterns.
Ethnocentrism
Behaviorism
Teacher competency tests
De facto segregation
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
The new England Primer
Behaviorism
Separate but equal has no place.
John Dewey