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EDTHP 115 3/17/03 Reminders:. Exam #2 moved earlier -- from April 7 to April 4 Exam #3 moved later-- from April 30 to May 2 Mindy Kornhaber will come in on April 7 Eyes on the Prize will be shown Monday, April 21 (not Monday, March 24)
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EDTHP 1153/17/03Reminders: • Exam #2 moved earlier -- from April 7 to April 4 • Exam #3 moved later-- from April 30 to May 2 • Mindy Kornhaber will come in on April 7 • Eyes on the Prize will be shown Monday, April 21 (not Monday, March 24) • Regina Deil-Amen will be here Wednesday—make sure to read her article, “The Unintended Consequences of Stigma-free Remediation”
Where we’ve been, where we are, where we’re heading • Educational Policy • Examined Reform strategies currently being employed throughout the country • School Effectiveness in the U.S. • International Issues in Education • History of Education: • Puritans • Education in the New Republic and early plans for systems of education • Common Schools, Part I • Other “educational” forces--role of Disney, Media, etc. • How to get a teaching job
Where we are, where we’re heading (con’t.) • Financing Public Education • Philosophy of Education • History of Education: • The Progressive Era, 1890s-1940s • Sociology of Education • Chap. 10: • Agents of Socialization: Family, Peers, and School, TV and Media • Gender Roles, Adolescents and Adolescence
Where we are heading (con’t.) • Chap. 11: • Race • Class • School Achievement • Different Interpretations of the above Big Question: Do schools alleviate or reinforce social inequalities?
Philosophies • Idealism • Realism • Pragmatism • Existentialism
Theories of Education • Progressivism • Scientific Management • Social Reconstructionism • Existentialism • Perennialism • Essentialism
Common School Reforms Revisited • We talked about schools and conditions in early 1800s • Talked about common school reform movement … reformers did see it as a movement … had a clear agenda, found ways to enact it through legislation and other means—and were rather successful • Often one period’s successes lead to problems for the next generation to solve. Remember: education is always changing; we are always attempting to address new challenges, needs, circumstances • And so it was with the common school reforms. Led perhaps to too much standardization and uniformity
New Challenges/Problems of the 1890s and early 1900s • Immigration • Industrialization • Urbanization
Importance of Education in the Progressive Era • New Views of Children and Schooling • New Curricula • New Ways of Classifying Children • New Philosophies and Theories • New Structures: Kindergarten; Junior High; High School; Junior College • New Practices • Overall—The Establishment of Many Ideas, Structures, and Practices That Remain Today
General Goals of Progressive Educators • Schools should be adapted to the child, instead of adapting children to schools • The curriculum and instructional practices should be “modernized” • Away from the overly rigid, mechanized, “lock-step” instruction of the 1800s • Schools should meet the needs of the whole child—intellectual, physical, emotional • Schools should meet new needs of society
General Educational Goals 1. Schools should be adapted to the child, instead of adapting children to schools • Helen Todd, “Why Children Work,” 1913
General Educational Goals (con’t.) 2. The curriculum and instructional practices needed to be modernized • Joseph M. Rice, Education in the United States, 1893 • John Dewey, The School and Society 1899
General Educational Goals (con’t.) • Schools should meet the needs of the whole child—intellectual, physical, emotional
General Educational Goals (con’t.) • Schools should meet new needs of society • Transformation of education • Dewey [perhaps also from school and society
John Dewey 1890s 1930
Dewey’s Main Ideas • A commitment to democratic education • Authoritarian schools a disservice to society • Students should be free to test all ideas and values • Classrooms should be places where students learn to experience, engage directly in life activities, and learn to work together • Child-centeredness balanced with Subject-centeredness • Importance of scientific method
Pedagogical Progressives • John Dewey (1859-1952) • School and Society, 1899 • Education and Democracy, 1916 • Experience and Education, 1938 • William H. Kilpatrick • The Project Method • Progressive Education Association
Administrative Progressives Ellwood P. Cubberley, Stanford Professor and Reformer (Scientific Management) • Take schools out of politics • Base education on science not tradition • Efficient management of schools • Differentiate structure • Classify and differentiate students • Assimilate immigrants • Education is part of the battle in international competition