Potluck
John Dewey
The Progressive Era
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100
Which of the following was a direct result of Frederick Winslow Taylor's "scientific" system of management? A) decrease in office jobs for women B) increase in workers' wages C) increase in managements' power to decide the conditions of labor D) decrease in worker dissatisfaction
C) increase in managements' power to decide the conditions of labor
100
True or False. John Dewey believed that the biggest social problem of the time was the fact that social issues such as urbanization, industrialization, and immigration were being solved by nondemocratic, and even authoritarian, methods.
True
100
True of False. During the Progressive Era, the control of schools shifted from centralized school boards to local neighborhood control.
False
100
A view emerging in the latter half of the 19th century that the human gene pool should be controlled by social policy that discourages reproduction of some populations of people while encouraging reproduction among other, more desired groups.
What is eugenics?
100
a philosopher of democratic life and democratic education who founded the University of Chicago Laboratory School to test and develop his progressive educational theories.
Who is John Dewey?
200
True or False. American leaders considered immigrants a significant obstacle to the social order and turned to schools for solutions.
True
200
True or False. After different methods were experimented with, it was Dewey's developmental-democracy variety of progressive education that finally took root in America during the Progressive era.
False
200
True or False. In the Progressive Era, students who received vocational training did not take any academic courses.
False
200
a loose constellation of approaches to studying the psyche and human learning; emerged around the beginning of the 20th century and emphasized nonrational, subconscious, behavioral sources of human actions rather than rational and consciously chosen sources.
What is new psychology ?
200
the 19th-century shift in immigration to the United States from northern and western European immigrants to southern and eastern European immigrants.
What is new immigration?
300
True of False. Membership in the socialist movement increased immediately after World War I.
False
300
John Dewey believed that A) children should be seen and not heard in the classroom. B) democracy had no place in the classroom. C) schools should equip students to solve social problems themselves. D) curiosity was not inherently a part of children's nature.
C) schools should equip students to solve social problems themselves.
300
According to progressive educators, the term "equal educational opportunity" meant that A) all students regardless of race would receive an "equal" education. B) all students regardless of class would be educated equally and therefore would be allowed to prove what they were capable of. C) all students would have an "equal opportunity" provided to them through the provision of education utilizing the same methods and materials. D) all students would have an "equal opportunity" to receive an education appropriate to them and their life work.
D) all students would have an "equal opportunity" to receive an education appropriate to them and their life work.
300
Perhaps the most influential educator of his era; Harvard University president from 1869 to 1909; represented many of the social efficiency dimensions of progressive education.
Who is Charles Eliot?
300
in contrast to simple capitalism, a 19th-century development that consolidated control of the market for particular goods or services in one or a few companies.
What is monopoly capitalism ?
400
Charles W. Eliot believed that _______ was a good way to address the issues underlying labor unrest in the country. A) child-centered education B) vocational education C) unionism D) socialism
B) vocational education
400
According to John Dewey, progressive education A) was new and different from traditional education. B) resulted from and contributed to social progress in general. C) was marked by an arrangement in which activities grew out of students' interests and past experiences and evolved into new experiences and interests. D) involved the relationship between two ideas: authority and submission.
C) was marked by an arrangement in which activities grew out of students' interests and past experiences and evolved into new experiences and interests.
400
Which of the following is a way progressive educators justified their advocacy of differentiated curriculum and vocational tracks? A) mass IQ testing B) promotion of social stability C) preparation for one's particular place in society D) All the answers are correct.
D) All the answers are correct.
400
a 19th-century movement in the United States that had its origins in rural life and advocated "industrial democracy," or greater local and popular control of industrial production rather than factory production organized and controlled through corporate and governmental collaboration.
What is populism?
400
a philosophy of centralized public policy or educational policy formation that places the good of the larger social order ahead of a commitment to full participation by all individuals in shaping that order.
What is social efficiency ?
500
Which of the following is a way that the "new" liberals modified classical liberalism during the progressive era? A) New liberals had faith that the common man could arrive at reasonable ideas in the free marketplace of public debate. B) New liberals believed that human rationality of the scientific type was necessary in order to ensure progress. C) New liberals grounded their concept of virtue in the absolute truth of religious teachings. D) All the answers are correct.
B) New liberals believed that human rationality of the scientific type was necessary in order to ensure progress.
500
Dewey was born in A) Philadelphia, PA B) Richmond, Virginia C) Burlington, Vermont D) Savannah, Georgia
C) Burlington, Vermont
500
Which of the following is a way that the "new" liberals modified classical liberalism during the progressive era? A) New liberals had faith that the common man could arrive at reasonable ideas in the free marketplace of public debate. B) New liberals believed that human rationality of the scientific type was necessary in order to ensure progress. C) New liberals grounded their concept of virtue in the absolute truth of religious teachings. D) All the answers are correct.
B) New liberals believed that human rationality of the scientific type was necessary in order to ensure progress.
500
named after the efficiency expert Frederick W. Taylor; a process of factory production developed in the late 19th century and early 20th century that broke complex production skills into the simplest component parts so that each worker would repeat a simple activity over and over to achieve increased productivity.
What is Taylorization?
500
in contrast to low-skill factory labor, a mode of production of goods that emphasized highly skilled labor producing and marketing uniquely individual products one piece at a time, whether in textiles, leather, wood, or another type of conversion of natural resources to handcrafted products.
What is skilled artisanship?
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