Key Terms
What is the heart of the perennialists' curriculum
Great Books
the love of or the search for wisdom; the quest to understand the meaning of life
philosophy
organizes their school around books, ideas, and concepts
perennialism
John Dewey was the founder of what philosophy
Progressivism
how many teacher centered philosophies and how many student center philosophies
2- teacher centered
3- student centered
A central body of knowledge that schools require all students to study is
core curriculum
What doctrine put forth by Aristotle asserting that virtue lies in the middle ground between two extremes
Golden Mean
encourages schools, teachers and students to focus their studies and energizes on alleviating pervasive social inequities
Social reconsrtuctionism
who had the theory of education called Engaged Pedagogy
bell hook
Survival of the fittest associates with?
Social Darwinism
during the 1980's, a revival of the _______ movement evolved out of concern for declining test scores
Back-to-basics
The tendency to view one's own culture as superior to others, or to fail to consider other cultures in a fair manner
ethnocentrism
organizes schools around the concerns, curiosity, and real world experiences
progressivism
What is Jane Roland Martin's word for gender bias in schools and society
Domephobia (fear of things domestic)
Who was a teacher without a school?
Socrates
the belief that reality is composed of both materialism and idealism
Cartesian Dualism
An approach to analyze how past and present societies are arranged and how better societies may be created in the future
political philosophy
what philosophy strives to teach students the accumulated knowledge of our civilization through core courses in the traditional academic discipline
essentialism
who was a Harvard professor that became the leading advocate of behaviorism
B.F. Skinner
What deals with the origins and the structure of reality?
Metaphysics
An educational strategy in which a teacher encourages a student's discovery of truth by question
Socrates method
schools often associated with a teacher preparation institution for practice teaching, demonstration, research, or innovation
Laboratory schools
what asserts that the purpose of education is to help children find the meaning and direction in their lives, and it rejects the notion that adults should or could direct meaningful learning for children
existentalism
who advocates for a more inclusive curriculum that offers all students a shared knowledge, a common curriculum
E. D. Hirsch Jr
Aristotle studied under whom, who studied under whom?
Aristotle studied under Plato, Plato studied under Socrates