My Foundation of Education

1. Philosophy of Education

1.1. Schooling and education should be used to help prepare students for the real world when they are done with school.

1.2. The philosophy that best provides clarification and justification for what I intend to do in the classroom is John Dewey's pragmatism.

1.3. Education and schooling should help students be able to live in this democratic society as implied by Dewey (Sadovnik, Cookson, and Semel, 2013).

1.4. This philosophy which is progressivism affects practice in the school and classroom because it make the teacher think about the student and their ideas instead of the teachers own ideas.

1.5. Dewey's philosophy of education related to teaching practice, professional learning, choices, and commitments. His teaching practice included the teacher as a facilitator, group and individual learning, and child centered instruction. The teachers should help guide the students in their learning.

1.6. Progressivism uses e

2. Schools as Organizations

3. Curriculum and Pedagogy

4. Equality of Opportunity

5. Educational Inequality

6. Educational Reform

7. Politics of Education

7.1. Conservative Perspective

7.2. Charles Darwin- "human progress is dependent on individual initiative and drive" (pg. 23).

7.3. "individuals or groups of students rise and fall on their own intelligence, hard work, and initiative, and that achievement is based on hard work and sacrifice" (pg. 28)

7.4. "individuals have the capacity to earn or not earn their place within a market economy and that solutions to problems should also be addressed at the individual level" (pg. 24).

7.5. traditional vision of education

7.6. school is important " to both economic productivity and social stability" (pg. 27).

8. History of U.S. Education

8.1. A reform movement that I think has the most influence is the standards era because the schools wanted to improve the curriculum, standards, and implement academic goals and assessments (Sadovnik, Cookson, and Semel, 2013). This has been around since about the 1980's to now.

8.2. One historical interpretation of U.S. education is between equity and excellence.

8.3. A second historical interpretation of U.S. education is between social and intellectual functions of schooling.

8.4. Reform movements in past U.S. history have influenced the present-day school by

8.5. Child-centered reform includes

8.6. Another reform movement is the emergence of public high schools.

9. Sociological Perspectives