Asserts that knowledge cannot be handed from one person to another but must be constructed by each learner through interpreting and reinterpreting a constant flow of information.
What is Constructivism?
100
Essentialism and Perennialism
What are the two teacher-centered philosophies?
100
Progressivism, social reconstructionism, and existentialism.
What are the three student-centered philosophies?
100
Your beliefs, values, and viewpoint on education.
What is a Philosophy of Education?
200
Student-centered philosophy in which schools are organized around the student's concerns, curiosities, and real-world experiences.
Progressivism
200
Uses questions, clues, or suggestions that help a student link prior knowledge to the new information.
What is scaffolding?
200
Two of the teacher-centered philosophies that tolerate flexibility in the curriculum.
What is Essentialism and Perennialism?
200
Student-centered philosophy in which teachers facilitate learning by helping students form meaningful questions and strategies to answer them.
What is Progressivism?
200
The educational application of pragmatism.
What is Progressivism?
300
Teaches "essentials" of academic knowledge, patriotism, and character development. Consists of core courses like math, science, history, foreign language, and literature.
What is Essentialism?
300
A psychological theory that interprets human behavior in terms of stimuli-response.
What is behaviorism?
300
The teacher-centered philosophy that organizes learning around books, ideas, and concepts.
What is Perennialism?
300
The teacher's role is to explore social problems, suggest other perspectives, and to help students analyze problems.
What is the teacher's role in Social Reconstructionism.
300
Student-centered philosophy that split from progressivism in the 1920's.
What is Social Reconstructionism?
400
Student-centered philosophy in which studies are focused on alleviating social inequalities. Believes that school is the ideal place to correct social wrongs.
What is Social Reconstructionism?
400
Became the leading advocate of behaviorism and he did much to popularize the use of positive reinforcement to promote desired learning.
What was B.F. Skinner famous for?
400
Idealism influencing Perrenialism Philosopher
Who is Plato?
400
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
What is existentialism?
400
Teacher-centered philosophy that learns from the "Great Books."
What is Perennialism?
500
A student-centered philosophy that rejects the idea that adults are the only ones to direct meaningful learning for children.
What is Existentialism?
500
A strategy to alter behavior in a desired direction through the use of rewards.
What is behavior modification?
500
Best-known example of perennialist education today takes place at a private institution unaffiliated with any religion
What is St. John's College?
500
The idea that society is an ingenious "sorting" system, one in which the most talented rise to the top, while those less deserving find themselves at the bottom of the social and economic pecking order
What is social Darwinism?
500
Student-centered philosophy in which each student decides what he/she should learn and when they should learn it.