BEP 362 Spring 2020 Exam 2 (UA)

Realism

-Aristotle -Reality is fixed and based on natural law -Values and ethics are eternal and absolute

Pragmatism

-Dewey -Reality is person's interaction with environment -Knowing is based on experience

Critical Theory

-Giroux -Reality is politically, socially and economically constructed -Knowing is based on critical analysis of problems in society -Values are constructed in terms of social power

Idealism

-Plato -Reality is spiritual // unchanging -What is right and valuable is absolute and eternal

Existentialism

-Sartre -Reality is subjective -Knowing consists of personal choices

___ founded the Summerhill school on the belief that the school should be made to fit the child.

A.S. Neill

Match the theory/belief with the positives: Social Melionist

Address social problems, hope for social change, empowerment.

Match the major philosophy with who it is associated with: Realism

Aristotle

Immigrants need the ___ approach to thrive and succeed in the educational system.

Biculturalism

Both Conservatives and Radicals are critical to the social efficiency curriculum approach to education, though for different reasons. ___ prefer common curriculum based on a common body of knowledge. ___ believe that the social efficiency approach reproduces the inequalities by giving different educational experiences to different students usually based on race, gender, and class.

Conservatives Radicals

___ is the process by which individuals think critically in order to examine their current situations and develop a deeper understanding of their concrete reality; and furthermore, to devise and implement solutions to their problems.

Critical consciousness

___ focus on the needs and interests of the student rather than the needs of society.

Developmentalists

Match the theory/belief with the positives: Humanist

Everyone is well-educated, Equal educational opportunity, understanding the world.

Match the theory/belief with the positives: Developmentalists

Flexible, promotes creativity, meeting the child where they are rather than should be, (cares most about what the child wants).

Summerhill's guiding principles were ___ and ___.

Happiness Freedom

Match the major philosophy with who it is associated with: Critical Pedagogy

Henry Giroux and Plato Freire

What is one of the main types of curriculum in American schools in the 20th century?

Humanist Social Efficiency Developmentalist Social Meliorist

___ associate with the Conservative party and it is defined as grade levels are irrelevant and that only self-evaluation is meaningful.

Humanists

Match the major philosophy with who it is associated with: Existentialism

Jean-Paul Satre and Maxine Greene

Match the major philosophy with who it is associated with: Pragmatism

John Dewey

___ is freedom from interference by other people.

Negative

___ liberty is the freedom from interference by other people, whereas ___ liberty is known as the possession of power and resources to fulfill one's own individual potential.

Negative Positive

How can Summerhill's approach be described?

Negative freedom

A major theme for Freire's epistemology is examining the relationship between the ___ and the ___.

Oppressed // Oppressor

___ can be described as a Brazilian educator, "father of critical pedagogy".

Paulo Friere

Match the major philosophy with who it is associated with: Idealism

Plato

___ freedom is the possession of the power and resources to fulfill ones own (full) potential.

Positive

What are the characteristics of the Banking style of education?

Problem-posing

Dewey wants to balance both the ___ goals of education with the ___ goals of education.

Psychological Sociological

John Dewey wants to balance the ___ goals of education with the ___ goals of education. The psychological serves as the ___ for the sociological.

Psychological Sociological Basis

The ___ goals of education serve as the basis for the ___ goals of education.

Psychological Sociological

Match the theory/belief with the positives: Social Efficiency

Takes into account needs of students, structured schools, vocations.

In a teacher-student relationship in the Banking style of education, ___ are the subject and ___ are the objects.

Teachers Students

"With the advent of democracy and modern industrial conditions, it is impossible to foretell definitely just what civilization will be twenty years from now. Hence it is impossible to prepare the child for any precise set of conditions. To prepare him for the future life means to give him command of himself; it means so to train him that he will have the full and ready use of all his capacities; that his eye and ear and hand may be tools ready to command, that his judgment may be capable of grasping the conditions under which it has to work, and the executive forces be trained to act economically and efficiently" (Dewey as quoted in Sadovnik et al, 2018, p. 216). *Based on this quote, how does Dewey suggest we prepare the child for the future?

That we give the child command of his own actions and that maybe they will trust their judgement to be capable of taking command.

Match the form of ethic to its meaning: Utilitarianism

The ethical stance that actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit (happiness) of the majority.

What is the definition of Pedagogy?

The method and practice of teaching and learning.

Match the form of ethic to its meaning: Teleology

The morality of an action derives duty or moral obligation from what is good or desirable as an end to be achieved, emphasis is based on the consequences of an action; also known as Consequentialism.

Match the form of ethic to its meaning: Deontology

The morality of an action is based on whether that action itself is right or wrong under a set of rules, rather than based on the consequences of the action; also known as Virtue Ethics.

Match the branch of philosophy to its meaning: Epistemology

The study of the nature of knowledge and knowing.

Match the branch of philosophy to its meaning: Metaphysics

The study of the nature of reality.

Match the branch of philosophy to its meaning: Axiology

The study of valuation, what is of value.

Students attending the same school that receive different curriculum is known as ___.

Tracking

Being impulsive, irresponsible, passive, and indifferent are all indicators that a person is lacking ___.

Wide-awakeness