Vocabulary
A term used by social scientists to indicate characteristics and shared experiences that members of a society have in common, but are not exactly alike.
What is modal personality?
Human growth and development theories begin by studying behavior at this age.
What is infancy?
Although divorce rates remain around 50%, most individuals remarry and create this type of family structure.
What is a blended family?
Philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Kant are often associated with this type of education.
What is moral knowledge or ethics?
School culture where students pull back on their own interests and needs to accommodate their teacher's interests and needs is this type of culture.
What is conformity?
Harry Giles outlined personal, social, civic, and economic as four of these.
What are basic needs?
Shifts from one developmental stage to the next are based on these two criteria.
What are age and social experiences?
It is increasingly common for many couples to "test-drive" a relationship by living this way before committing to marriage.
What is cohabitation?
Moral questions cannot be taught in a prescribed content curriculum in an ask/answer style. They must be taught through these teaching methods.
What is discussion or analyzing?
Often, teachers avoid active learning and view it as an extra workload; they instead default to this less creative method of student learning.
Historically, this type of family in the United States has been described as highly child-centered and typically has two parents living with the family.
What is a nuclear family?
This theorist identified six periods of human development that include tasks to be learned based on an individual's stage or period of life.
Who is Robert Havighurst?
Statistics show about half of youth under 18 have lived in this type of household for at least some part of their childhood.
What is a single-parent family?
This type of character has less to do with traditional ethics and more focus on personal, internal traits of habit and mind that drive success.
What is performance character?
This group of people is important to student learning early on to help understand respect, responsible behavior, self-control, and cooperation.
What is the peer group?
Philip Phoenix said this is learned by "participating in everyday life of society according to recognized standards of society."
What is moral conduct?
One commonality amongst most child development theories and theorists is that the approach centers around teaching in regards to this.
What is the whole child?
Less than half of U.S. children under 18 live in a traditional nuclear family today compared to this percentage back in 1960.
What is 70%?
These "Three C's" are described as the ingredients of one's character.
What are courage, conviction, and compassion?
What is technology?
This term refers to the tendency of minorities to view attitudes or norms of White Americans as inappropriate for their culture.
What is cultural inversion?
This theorist defined three major classifications of society in reference to thinking and behavior: traditional, inner, and other directed.
Who is David Riesman?
Young adults today believe marriage is either risky or they need to have this to be successful in marriage.
What is money?
According to this moral teacher, the content of moral knowledge covers five main areas: human rights, ethics, social relationships, economic life, and political life.
Who is Philip Phenix?
Universal access to this program is viewed as an economic investment that could reduce incarceration and the rate of dropping out later in a student's life.
What is the pre-K program?