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Movement and Change in School and Society

Movement and Change in School and Society. Chapter 8. My schools were…. At the heart of my community Places to which I commuted Never a part of my neighborhood I was home-schooled. The School at the Heart of the Community.

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Movement and Change in School and Society

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  1. Movement and Change in School and Society Chapter 8

  2. My schools were… At the heart of my community Places to which I commuted Never a part of my neighborhood I was home-schooled

  3. The School at the Heart of the Community • District schools…revenues set aside from the sale of the 16th section of each township…the goal was to have no child walk more than two miles to school • Significant local control • Yearly calendar revolved around farminghttp://www.agclassroom.org/gan/timeline/images/pictures/1980_life_farm.jpg

  4. Preparing Teachers • Normal Schoolshttp://reflections.mndigital.org/cgi-bin/thumbnail.exe?CISOROOT=/umd&CISOPTR=78

  5. Preparing Teachers • Most students had not completed high school • Reading, penmanship, spelling, grammar, geography, arithmetic…16 years old and good health http://reflections.mndigital.org/cgi-bin/thumbnail.exe?CISOROOT=/umd&CISOPTR=78

  6. Preparing Teachers • By the 1920s-30s most Normal Schools upgraded to colleges and four year degrees http://www.americanartarchives.com/stahr_college.jpg

  7. Morrill Act • Donating public land to provide colleges for the benefit of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (30 thousand acres of public land) http://www.usnews.com/usnews/documents/docimages/pdf/doc_33.pdf

  8. Morrill Act • Military training (ROTC)http://www.virginia.edu/insideuva/2001/31/images/ROTC-d-092001-FS.jpg

  9. Morrill Act • Hatch Act (1887)…experimental farms • Higher education to working people of the Midwest and West…focus on practical educationhttp://www.ag.iastate.edu/coa150/images/dairyingclass.jpg

  10. Becoming Americans: The Immigrants • Industrial Revolution and steamships, between 1880-1920, millions of immigrants http://www.esseximages.com/Images/h-steamships.jpg

  11. My ancestors were immigrants • This generation • Last generation (grandparents) • 3 generations ago • 4 or more generations ago

  12. Becoming Americans: The Immigrants • Asians not as accepted as Europeans, removed in 1965 by President Johnson • Second great wave in 1980s-90shttp://www.cis.umassd.edu/~gleung/nacaf/Timeline11s.jpg

  13. Schooling for Immigrants • Assimilation and Acculturationmuseum.msu.edu

  14. True or False: American schools must educate the children of illegal immigrants? • True • False

  15. Schooling for Immigrants • Expanding social roles of schoolshttp://www.education.tas.gov.au/school/educators/health/movewelleatwell/physical_activity_initiatives/walkingbus/contents/program_overview/walking_bus_overview.jpg

  16. Schooling for Immigrants • The testing and efficiency movementbp0.blogger.com/.../s320/Fox-Testing-Test.jpg

  17. Schooling for Immigrants • Intelligence testshttp://www.gettingpersonal.co.uk/images/iq_bot.jpg • http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2356247595745580015

  18. Progressive Education • John Dewey…every working man a scholar, and every scholar a working man http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=john+dewey&btnG=Search+Images • http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8009791051515751015&q=john+dewey&total=561&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1&hl=en

  19. Progressive Education • George Counts: Dare the School Build a New Social Order?http://img.textbookx.com/images/large/89/0809308789.jpg

  20. What do you think the responsibility of schools is to change society for the better? • Not at all…schools should be neutral • Some, mostly for busines • Some, mostly for national security • Some, mostly for eradicating social ills • A lot…schools can improve society

  21. Progressive Education • America First: Post War Educationhttp://www.eagleton.rutgers.edu/e-gov/archive/amfirst.jpg

  22. Progressive Education • Educational Wastelands (Arthur Bestor) • Back to Basicshttp://www.edu-toonsbook.com/ArthurBestorBooksTN.jpg

  23. The Pursuit of Equality and Justice • Compensatory Educationhttp://www.nisd.net/compensatory/images/title_smaller.jpg

  24. The Pursuit of Equality and Justice • ESEA (1965) • Cultural Deprivation, culture of poverty • Blaming the Victim http://www.k12.wa.us/esea/images/ESEAheader.gif

  25. The Pursuit of Equality and Justice • Cultural Aphasia…WASP culture as the idealhttp://pdhomes.net/collections/notlad/ArtStuff/wasp.jpg

  26. The Pursuit of Equality and Justice • Civil Rights movement comes to schoolhttp://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/wp-content/uploads/school%20segregation.jpg

  27. Radical Education • For social justice • For self actualization • Humanistic education: Free, open, deschooled • Backlash…A Nation at Risk • Back to Basics part two: Standards Movementhttp://imglib.lbl.gov/ImgLib/COLLECTIONS/BERKELEY-LAB/images/96B05647.lowres.jpeg

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