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