1. Politics Of Education ( WATCH ME)
1.1. Education - The deliberate, systematic,and sustained effort to transmit, evoke, or acquire knowledge, attitudes, skills, or sensibilities, as well as any outcome of that effort.
1.1.1. 4 Purposes of education
1.1.1.1. Intellectual -Teach basic cognitive skills such as reading, writing, and mathematics: to transmit specific knowledge: HELP!! Students acquire higher-order thinking skills such as Investigation, Evaluation, and Combination.
1.1.1.1.1. Political - Instill an attitude by persistent instruction of allegiance to the existing political order (Patriotism) Prepare citizens who will participate in this political order: To absorb into the cultural tradition of a population or group. TEACH BASIC LAWS OF SOCIETY
2. History of U.S. Education
2.1. President Obama's RACE TO THE TOP (RTT) has the most visibility. Race to the top promises to help states and districts close achievement gaps and get more students into college by supporting key reform strategies including:
2.1.1. Adopting more rigorous standards and assessements
2.1.1.1. Recruiting, evaluating, and retaining highly effective teachers and principles
2.1.1.1.1. Turn around low-performing schools
3. Sociological Perspectives
3.1. The relationship between school and society school; as well as parents, churches, and synagogues, and other groups, shape children's perceptions of the world by process of SOCIALIZATION.
3.1.1. Pledge of Allegiance - children learn something about Citizenship and Patriotism.
3.1.1.1. DID YOU NOTICE WHAT PORKY PIG LEFT OUT OF THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE?
3.1.1.1.1. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
4. Philosophy Of Education
4.1. PRAGMATISM
4.1.1. George Sanders Pierce and William James are credited with having described pragmatism in part through the biblical phrase," By their fruits ye shall know them."
4.1.1.1. Pragma means "work" and it study past
4.1.1.2. Bacon sought a way of thinking in which people might be persuaded to abandon the traditions or "idols" of the past for a more experimental approach to the world of daily existence.
4.1.1.2.1. Locke believed mind was tabula rasa, a blank tablet, and that one requires knowledge through one's senses.
5. Schools as Organization
5.1. State Senator: Dr. Larry Stutts
5.1.1. House of Representatives: Robert B. Aderholt
5.1.1.1. State Superintendent: Michael Sentance
5.1.1.1.1. Representative on State School Board: Jeffrey Newman
6. Curriculum & Pedagogy
6.1. Developmentalist Curriculum
6.2. related to the needs and interests of the student rather than the needs of society.
6.2.1. Dewey related Developmentalist curriculum to the needs and interests of each child at particular developmental stages.
6.2.1.1. It Stressed flexibility in both what was taught and how it was taught with the emphasis on the development of each student's individual capacities.
6.2.1.1.1. It stressed the importance of relating schooling to the life experience of each child in a way that would make education come alive in a meaningful manner.
6.2.1.1.2. The teacher is facilitator of student growth.
6.2.1.1.3. Identify and describe the two dominant traditions of teaching:
7. Equality of Opportunity
7.1. Teachers have been found to think more highly of middle class and upper middle class children than they do of working class and underclass children because working class and underclass children do not speak middle class do not speak middle class English. CLASS
7.1.1. This phenomenon leads to labeling children, ostensibly according to their abilities, but covertly according to their social class backgrounds.
7.1.1.1. Race - Minorities do not receive the same educational opportunities as whites, and their rewards for attainment are significantly less.
7.1.1.1.1. Gender -Females are less likely to drop out of school than males, and more likely to have a higher level of reading proficiency than males.
8. Educational Inequality
8.1. Two types of cultural deprivation:
8.2. 1. Cultural Deprivation
8.2.1. Cultural deprivation theory suggest working class and nonwhite families often lack the cultural resources, such as books and other educational stimuli, and thus arrive at school at a significant disadvantage.
8.2.1.1. Deutsch - This deprivation results in educationally disadvantaged students who achieve poorly because they have not been raised to acquire the skills and dispositions required for satisfactory academic achievement.
8.2.1.1.1. Project Head Start
9. Educational Reform
9.1. Educational Reform: To what extent do teachers and schools make a difference?
9.1.1. To what degree can they make a difference?
9.1.1.1. Most importantly, to what extent are teachers and schools limited in their ability to solve educational and social problems without significant changes outside the schools?
9.1.1.1.1. Educational reforms of 1980