My Foundations of Education

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My Foundations of Education by Mind Map: My Foundations of Education

1. Politics of Education

1.1. Liberal Perspective

1.1.1. Quality with equality

1.1.2. Improve failing schools

1.1.3. Emphasis on urban schools

1.1.4. Standards that all students can meet

1.1.5. Rarely support privatization, vouchers, tax credits

1.1.6. Equality for disadvantaged groups

1.2. Traditional Perspective

1.2.1. Support traditional values

1.2.2. Pass on best of what was & what is

1.2.3. Hard work

1.2.4. Family

1.2.5. Individual Initiative

1.2.6. View is supported by the Right Wing

2. History of U.S. Education

2.1. The Emergence of Public High School

2.1.1. Cardinal Principals of Public Education

2.1.1.1. Health

2.1.1.2. Command of fundamental process

2.1.1.3. Worthy home membership

2.1.1.4. Vocation

2.1.1.5. Citizenship

2.1.1.6. Worthy Use of leisure

2.1.1.7. Ethicial character

2.2. Democratic-Liberal School

2.2.1. Equality for all

2.2.2. Expand to larger segments of population

2.2.3. more diversity

2.2.4. Make the world more educated

2.2.5. Excellence

2.2.6. Increase opportunities

3. Sociological Perspectives

3.1. Relationship between school and society

3.1.1. Schools shape childern

3.1.2. Socialization process can shape childern's consciousness

3.1.3. Functional Theories

3.1.4. Conflict Theories

3.1.5. Interactional Theories

3.1.6. Culture differences

4. Philosophy of Education

4.1. Pragmatism

4.1.1. Childern learn when best when they are interested in what they are learning.

4.1.2. Children should learn how to operate in a democracy.

4.1.3. Gorge Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewy where key researchers.

4.1.4. Teacher is the facilitator.

4.1.5. Goal of education is to help improve not only the lives of the students but also the communities from which the students live in.

4.1.6. Students will be in groups sometimes, they will go on field trips, lot of out of the box styles of instruction.

5. Schools as Organizations

5.1. Major Stakeholders in Colbert County Schools

5.1.1. State Sen. Larry Stutts

5.1.2. State Rep. Johnny Mack Morrow

5.1.3. State Rep. Marcel Black

5.1.4. Superintendent Anthony Olvis

5.1.5. US. Rep. Robert Aderholt

5.1.6. School Board District 6. Nancy Parker

5.2. French Educational System

5.2.1. French Government controls the educational system down to the classroom level.

5.2.2. Two Educational systems, one of the ordinary student and one for the elite.

5.2.3. There have been attempts to join the two systems.

5.2.4. Has been described as "excessively verbal"

5.2.5. Efforts to democratize the system have failed.

5.2.6. Very few reforms have been made esp. on the structural level.

6. Curriculum and Pedagogy

6.1. Historical Curriculum Theory

6.1.1. Social Efficiency Curriculum

6.1.1.1. Pragmatist approach

6.1.1.2. Developed in the early twentieth century

6.1.1.3. Different needs of students require different types of schooling

6.1.1.4. Relationship between schooling and the activities of adults within society.

6.1.1.5. Development is related to the scientific management of the schools.

6.1.1.6. Led to the development of standardized testing.

6.2. Sociological Curriculum Theory

6.2.1. Modern Functionalist Theory

6.2.1.1. Developed in the United States

6.2.1.2. Talcott Parsons & Robert Dreeben

6.2.1.3. Stressed the role that schools play in preparing students for the increasingly complex roles required in modern society.

6.2.1.4. Society described is a democratic, meritocratic, expert society.

6.2.1.5. Teach the general values and norms essential to modern society.

6.2.1.6. Respect others, respect differences, base opinions on knowledge rather than tradition.

7. Equality of Opportunity

7.1. African American Oppurtunity

7.1.1. 9.3 % Are likely to drop out.

7.1.2. 66 % at age 17 are at a proficient reading level

7.1.3. 34% in kindergarten are proficient readers

7.1.4. 27% Have good mathematics skills in kindergarten

7.2. Coleman Study 3

7.2.1. Where a student attends school is often related to race and socioeconomic background.

7.2.2. Composition of the school has greater impact on student achievement.

7.2.3. Race is a predictor of academic success

7.2.4. Class is a predictor of academic success

7.2.5. Argue that segregation is part of the issue of education gap.

7.2.6. Must eliminate high levels of segregation

8. Educational Inequality

8.1. Genetic Differences

8.1.1. Most controversial explanation

8.1.2. Environmental factors are responsible for human behavior.

8.1.3. Social factors are responsible

8.1.4. Biological factors cannot be ruled out

8.1.5. Genetic differences are responsible for school performance

8.1.6. Arthur Jenson is one of the minds behind this theory

8.1.7. Not a strong argument for this

8.2. School Financing

8.2.1. Jonathan Kozol & Savage Inequalities book

8.2.2. Comparisons made between poor inner city schools and suburb schools

8.2.3. Research on differences in funding

8.2.4. Public schools funded through revenues from local, state, and federal sources

8.2.5. Majority of funds come from local taxes & local property taxes

8.2.6. More affluent communities can provide more per-pupil spending

9. School Reform

9.1. No Child Left Behind

9.1.1. Landmark & Controversial legislations

9.1.2. Centerpiece of President G.W. Bush's educational policy

9.1.3. Annual testing required

9.1.4. State and districts are required to report school testing data

9.1.5. States must set yearly progress goals fro each school

9.1.6. Schools must have highly qualified teachers for core subjects.

9.2. Charter Schools

9.2.1. First passed in Minnesota in 1991

9.2.2. Charter laws have been passed in 41 states

9.2.3. States are authorizing more charters to respond to growth

9.2.4. Public schools that are free from many of the regulations applied to public schools

9.2.5. Arguments for are based on they provide more effective alternative for low income childern

9.2.6. Argument made that Charter schools accept more questionable kids from public schools