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Theory & Philosophy
21st Century
History of Education
Core Terms
Quotations
100
Meaning "Love" and "Wisdom" it is one of the foundational underpinnings of education
What is Philosophy?
100
Said, "Children have become screen-agers...digital natives...and the brains of the digital generation have changed."
What is Ian Jukes.
100
Radical Massachusetts educational reformer who strongly believed in the ideals of the common school.
What is Horace Mann.
100
Refers to the disparity in academic performance between groups of students.
What is the achievement gap.
100
"As we in Women’s Studies work to reveal male privilege and ask men to give up some of their power, so one who writes about having white privilege must ask, ' Having described it what will I do to lessen or end it?'"
What is Peggy McIntosh
200
Belief that schools should be democratic in structure so that children can learn to live well in democracy and become good citizens.
What is Progressivism.
200
The ongoing process that explains that intelligence is no longer assumed to be fixed. The brain is constantly reworking itself. Memory capacity can be changed.
What is neuroplasticity.
200
He denounced the classical school curriculum in the 19th Century as totally unsuited to the demands of the newly industrialized society of the United States.
What is John Dewey.
200
It is the set of knowledge that the learner has the ability to learn currently but does not yet understand -- things that are "just out of reach".
What is Zone of Proximal Development
200
"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men."
What is Horace Mann.
300
Considers the needs of the individual more important than the needs of society.
What is Romanticism.
300
Are three examples of 21st Century teaching and learning elements.
What is collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, global awareness, and leadership.
300
She began, as elementary classes do today, with the required curriculum of Italy of her time. She adapted the traditional teacher-taught subjects in the arts and science so that the children could use materials to guide their open-ended research and to follow their individual interests, working to a much higher level than was previously (and is presently!) thought possible for children of this age.
What is Maria Montessori
300
A prediction that causes itself to come true due to the simple fact that the prediction was made. This happens because our beliefs influence our actions.
What is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
300
“Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not a preparation for life but is life itself.”
What is John Dewey.
400
The aim of education is to teach youth the essentials they need to live well in the modern world.
What is essentialism.
400
Believes that today's schools kill creativity.
What is Sir Ken Robinson.
400
The brilliant sociologist who later wrote the famous report on the equality of opportunity for education and the first study of public and private schools,identified the essential high-school problem: “our adolescents today are cut off,probably more than ever before, from the adult society.”
What is James Coleman
400
A learning process designed to promote a deeper level of learning. It is the support given during the learning process which is tailored to the needs of the student with the intention of helping the student achieve his/her learning goals (Sawyer, 2006).
What is scaffolding.
400
“My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.”
What is Sir Ken Robinson
500
The purpose of education is to find the changeless "truth," which is best revealed in the enduring classics of western culture.
What is Perennialism.
500
She is president and chief executive offer of Florida Virtual School, which she helped launch in 1997. The organization, which has a staff of more than 1,200, provides nearly 100 courses to more than 130,000 students annually.
What is Julie Young
500
As head of the American Federation of Teachers, he became the most widely known educational figure in the history of organized labor.
What is Albert Shanker
500
It is an invisible package of unearned assets to which one is often oblivious. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes,tools and blank checks.
What is White Privilege.
500
"In my travels over the past two years, I have seen the wreckage caused by NCLB. It has become the ‘Death Star’ of American education. It is a law that inflicts damage on students, teachers, schools, and communities."
What is Diane Ravitch