My Foundations of Education

My Foundations of Education by Alexis Evans

1. Ch 2: Politics of Edu

2. Ch. 4: Sociological Perspectives

3. Ch. 6 Schools as Organizations

4. Ch. 8: Equality of Opportunity

5. Ch. 9: Educational Inequality

6. Four Purposes of Education: Conservative, Liberal, Radical, Neo-liberal

7. Conservative- Survival of the fitest

8. Liberal- Gov't involvement is best

9. Radical- Socialists

10. Neo-Liberal- failing schools due to

11. Role of School: Conservative perspective- Education is needed to reach full potential

12. Explanations of Unequal Performance: Liberal Perspective- Some people have more advantages

13. Educational Problems: Liberal- education has failed minorities

14. Functionalism: Schools socialize students into the appropriate values for society.

15. Conflict Theory: Students struggle with everyone into adulthood.

16. Internationalism: Analyzes everyday behavior.

17. Effects of Schooling:

17.1. Gender: Strengthening Gender Norms

17.2. Inadequate Schools- Dont receive same education everywhere

17.3. Peer Groups- Setting societal roles

17.4. Teachers- Lead to role strain

17.5. Employment- Serve technical and professional jobs

18. Alabama Reps

18.1. Senator: Doug Jones & Richard Shelby

18.2. House of Reps: Bryne, Roby, Rogers, Aderholt, Brooks, Palmer and Sewell.

18.3. Superintendent: Michael Sentance

18.4. State Board: Ivey, Bell, McCarty, Zeigler, Peters, Richardson, Bell, Newman, Hunter, Richardson

18.5. Local Superintendent: Matt Massey

19. Elements of Change;

19.1. Conflict: allows issues to surface

19.2. New Behaviors: Allows trust

19.3. Team-building: allow staff to communicate

19.4. Process and Content: How the plan will turn out

20. Educational outcomes

20.1. Class: Only the wealthy can continue.

20.2. Race: Minorities won't succeed as much as Majorities.

20.3. Gender: Men are more likely to succeed

21. Responses to the Coleman Study (1982)

22. 1. In public vs private, privates do better.

23. 2. Race and socioeconomic of a school helps determine a students achievement.

24. Ch. 5 Philosophy of Edu

25. Ch. 7: Curriculum and Pedagogy

26. Ch. 10: Educational Reform

27. Ch. 3: The History of Education

28. Important Reforms: Education for Women & Blacks

29. Helped add diversity and knowledge to ALL Americans

30. One Historical Interpretation of Edu:

30.1. The Democratic- Liberal: involves of progressive evolution of equality for all

31. Existentialism

31.1. Generic Notions: People need to make their own choices.

31.1.1. Key Researchers: Soren Kierkergaard.

31.1.1.1. Goal of Education: Education liberates the world.

31.1.1.1.1. Role of the Teacher: Teachers need to understand their own world in order to teach others.

32. The Social meliorist curriculum

32.1. Helps fulfill the need of society which makes life easier.

33. Teaching Traditions:

34. Mimetic Tradition: Children mimic what the teachers say

35. Transformative: Children grow from what the teacher teaches

36. Cultural Differences:

36.1. Africn-American children do less well in school because they adapt to their oppressed position.

36.2. Working class and nonwhite students are resisting the dominant culture of the schools.

37. School-Centered Explanation

37.1. School Financing: low-income schools get less financing and per-pupil spending then wealthy communities.

37.2. Effective School Research: Performance of nonwhite and working-class students shows the socioeconmic backgrounds do poorly simply because of inferiority.

37.3. Curriculum and Pedagogic Practices: School does affect educational outcomes.

37.4. Curriculum and Ability Grouping: Test scores help learning best ways to teach.

38. Types of reform

39. School based: Public schools should learn as much as private, magnet schools. Deveoped pograms to help this difference.

40. School to work programs: Incorporated to help students who were not going to college.

41. Societal, Community, Economic, and Political Reforms

41.1. State Intervention: District take overs for severe sanctions.

41.2. School Finance: Giving supplemental programs in low-income schools.