Foundations of Education

1. Chapter 3 The History of Education

2. The reform movement that I think had the most influence of education would be the effort to make education available to more children.

3. Chapter 4 The sociology of education

4. Functional Theories view society as a kind of machine, where one part articulates with another to produce the dynamic energy required to make society work.

5. Conflict Theory sees the purpose of education as maintaining social inequality and preserving the power of those who dominate society.

6. Interactional is the relation of school and society are primarily critiques and extensions of the functional and conflict perspectives.

7. Chapter 5

8. Chapter 2: Politics of Education

8.1. Four purposes of education are social, intellectual, economic, and political. 1.intellectual- to teach basic skills and help children acquire skills for higher thinking.

9. 2.economic- prepare and train students for their role later in life.

10. 3. social- to help solve social problems and work together as one such as family and church.

11. 4. political-to teach children the basic laws of society

12. The role of the school is purposes and functions of education in society.

13. Explanations of unequal educational performance is the explanation of why certain groups, or backgrounds perform less well in school than others

14. Definitions of educational problems

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