This is a group that shares beliefs about what is right and wrong and what is good and bad, including dominant ideas, stories and myths, artistic works, social habits, and language.
What is Culture?
100
This is an agency that weans children from the protective warmth of the family and trains them for what society has decided is useful work.
What is a school?
100
Besides family, this is the most common institution in the U. S. that socializes young people.
What is School?
100
What are the 2 types of Social Reconstructionists?
What are Democratic and Economic Reconstructionists?
100
In the Shopping Mall Theory, this term is used to describe the niches for students and families wanting more learning and school engagement.
What are "Specialty Shops"?
200
This is the process by which humans develop their minds, their skills,and their character. It is a lifelong process marked by continual development and change.
What is Education?
200
True or False: By the time you graduate high school, you have experienced the equivalent of 10,000 movies of life in school.
True
200
What kind of School Environment is most conducive for learning?
Calm, safe, pleasant, and orderly
200
What are the 4 basic purposes of school?
1. Intellectual Purposes
2. Political and Civic Purposes
3. Economic Purposes
4. Social Purposes
200
Give one example of Jackson's observations in elementary schools.
Jackson has observed that the elementary school engages in as many as a thousand interpersonal interchanges each day.
300
This is the general process of social learning whereby children learn the many things they must know to become acceptable members of society.
What is Socialization?
300
This is the first specific, formalized process that teaches children how to learn.
What is Schooling?
300
This indirectly teaches students how to read both the teacher and the system to determine what is expected to get the high grade.
What is a Reward System?
300
Give an example of transmitting culture.
Teaching American History in 3rd, 7th, and 11th grades
300
What percent of college students are not prepared for college after high school?
42%
400
These people are proponents of the theory of education that schools and teachers need to engage in the restructuring and reforming of society to eradicate its ills and shortcomings.
Who are Social Reconstructionists?
400
This represents what a community believes young people need to know to develop into good and productive adults.
What is a curriculum?
400
There are 2 views of how U. S. Schools should socialize students. What are they?
1. The young receive from the older generation the very best of their culture.
2.Where the young learn skill and become agents of social change.
400
Name a difference between an economic reconstructionist from a democratic reconstructionist
Democratic - want to make positive changes to democracy
Economic - take harsher view of dominant culture and status quo
400
In the middle years, ages 11 to 13, in what fundamental ways do students change?
They become more independent, more social, and more involved in the world around them
500
These people are subscribers to an educational perspective that focuses on developing students who take a critical stance toward the dominant social and economic status quo.
Who are Economic Reconstructionists?
500
What is the difference of education and schooling?
Schooling is a specific, formalized process that focuses on the academics. Education is much more open-ended and all-inclusive, coming from both formal and informal sources.
500
Besides family, what are the 5 major agencies of Socialization for a young person?
Schools, Peer groups, religious institutions, youth organizations and mass media.
500
Name a way political and civic purposes are emphasized in school.
Student government elections, voter registration drives, citizenship education programs, community service and outreach programs.
500
If a student does not miss a day of school in one year, how many hours does he or she spend in school each year?