American Education Culture

How are education & socialization related

Very similar, Aim to preserve, inculcate, or transmit the cultural heritage of a society, media is the agent of soicalization

What do perennialists maintain that education involves?

Confronting the problems that have challenged mankind over the centuries

Choose the description that best characterizes the progressivist curriculum

Problem solving and experience centered

The American educator credited w/ having advanced progressivism

John Dewey

For behaviorist, the control of human behavior is achieved through

Manipulation of the environment

Identify which wad not one of the 7 carinal principles issued by the commission on reorganization of 2nd education in 1918

Capitalism or democracy

What are the 7 cardinal principles

health, commandment of fundamental processes, worthy home membership, vocational preparation, citizenship, worthwhile use of leisure, ethical character

Which best describes a social reconstructionist teacher

Must be open to change

Culture literacy is associated ________, while critical literacy is associated with ___________

Perennialism, Social Reconstructionism

Which of the following statements is NOT true period known as the reformation?

It led to peace in Europe

Whole Child Development. Mind, body and soul in educational terminology

Skills, Knowledge, disposition

When are emergency certifications issued

On the presumption the recipient will become regular certified or be replaced

Any education that only prepares mind & body produces ethical dwarfs. What educational domain is bring ignored

Psychomotor

Who is often referred to as " the father of American education"

Horace Mann

In American Education system identify any 3 types of certifications for teachers

Emergency Certification
Initial Certification
National Board Certification
Interstate Certification
Recertification

Identify any 3 characteristics of professionalism

Code of conduct
Rigorous training
unique knowledge
Complex task
Public trust
control of entry

With reference to the 3 branches of philosophy, identify the terminology for each of the following Reality, Knowledge, Values

Metaphysics, Epistemology, Axiology

Reality

Metaphysics

Knowledge

Epistemology

Values

Axiology

The Massachusetts Law of 1642

Established the principle of compulsory education

What is the major philosophical difference between Spartan and Athena?

Spartans were raising warriors focuses on military/patriotic... whereas Athenians were developing their people intellectual, democratic, developing reasonable men

Name the 3 characteristics of youth culture

idealism, Rebellion, conformity

Who of the American Nationalist educators fought for CULTURAL INDEPENDANCE in the educational system

Noah Webster

The renaissance represented a rebirth of the interest of what?

The humanist aspect of Greek and Latin scholars

What was the influence philosophical of the renaissance

Humanism

Define a student at-risk is?

A student who is need of special services or treatment to survive school

Name any 4 symptoms of @ risk students

-Smoking, Drugs, Alcohol
- Teen Pregnancy
- Depression/Suicide
-Violence
-Obesity
-Child maltreatment/negligence

Name the 5 dimensions of multicultural education

Content Integration
Knowledge Construction
Prejudice reduction
equity pedagogy
Empowering social culture

Name the 4 approaches multicultural education suggested by James Banks

Contributory Approach
Additive Approach
Transformation Approach
Social Approach

Common/Case Law

Usage of past court cases decisions

Statue Law

Federal and State legislative enactments

Administrative Law

Formal regulation & decision by state & federal agencies

Constitutional

Fundamental laws, of people of a state or nation... highest level

What article/amendment deals w/ schools practices of promoting/ inhibiting religion

1st amendment

How is the 10th amendment of US constitution related to education

Because education isn't specifically named in the constitution it is delegated to the states which is specified in the 10th amendment

What article section/amendment protect a teacher from being dismissed w/o due process

14th amendment

According to technical production perspective of curriculum development propounded by Ralph Tyler, there are 4 steps

Objective
Content
Procedure
Assessment

Integrated Cirriculum

Combining/integrating 2 or more subjects into one course

Constructivism Curriculum

Learning activities that encourage students to construct their own meanings based on current/past knowledge

What is the difference between racism and ethnocentrism

Racism is believing that one racial group is inherently superior than another, whereas Ethnocentrism is believing that one ethic group is inherently superior than another (which focuses on cultural rather than biological race)

What is the difference between "contributory negligence" and "comparative negligence"

Contributory negligence is where injury person failed to exercise care
Comparative negligence: where both parties are at fault... plaintiff and defendants negligence

Name the 3 major grounds on which a tenure teacher can be dismissed

Incompetence, Insubordination, Immortality

Describe the term minority in American Culture

Minority is a cultural group that has developed a shared identity as a result of social, economical, and political marinization

Describe and Differentiate Prejudice/ Discriminations

Prejudice is more about your attitude against a category of people where as discrimination is your behavior towards a category of people

Prejudice

any unfound generalization about a category of people (attitude)

Sterotyping

The inaccurate description of a category of people, even when their is contradicting evidence

Discrimination

Behavioral pattern that results in treating people differently

In summary how are federal, state and local government tasked in management/administrative of public schools in USA

education is federal government concern
education is states government responsibility
Operation of education is local government

Example of hidden curriculum in school

getting to class on time, raising your hand, not speaking when others are speaking

Example of evaded curriculum in school

Not talking about sensitive subjects such as racial inequality in history

Example of co/extra curriculum

Science fair, student led debates