Ch 1 Family Life Education

Question 1

What is family life education? (global perspective)

Answer 1

The educational effort to strengthen individual and family life through a family perspective

Question 2

What is family life education? (outreach perspective)

Answer 2

Any educational activity occurring outside a traditional school classroom, usually involving adults, that is designed to strengthen relationships in the home and foster positive individual, couple, and family development

Question 3

FLE operational principles

Answer 3

• Is to be relevant to individuals, couples, and families across the lifespan
• is based on the felt needs of individuals, couples and families, and communities
• draws on material from many fields and is multi professional in its practice
• is offered in many venues, including community workshops, video and print media, publications, the internet and many other settings
• is educational rather than therapeutic
• is respectful of diverse values
• requires qualified FLEs to realize its goals

Question 4

FLE is one of the true multi-disciplinary fields with contributions from ….

Answer 4

• home economics
• family sociology
• social work
• marriage and family therapy
• social psychology
• education
• parenting education
• child development

Question 5

Most common types of FLE are…

Answer 5

• premarital/marriage education
• parenting skills
• stress management
• anger management
• adaptation following divorce
• stepfamily education

Question 6

Earliest FLE efforts in US can be traced to collaborations between what two things?

Answer 6

• church and state

- to ensure that children were raised in non abusvie, more healthy environments

Question 7

When did self help books and how to books emerge?

Answer 7

early 1800’s

Question 8

Around 1850 what group developed as a precursor to the PTA?

Answer 8

Child and mother study groups

Question 9

What was the first form of FLE?

Answer 9

informal support groups sharing info

- ex maternal associations were formed to discuss best child rearing practices

Question 10

What was the Morrill Act?

Answer 10

provided 1.7 million acres of land to the states so that each might have at least one college that promoted the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes

Question 11

Land grant Institutions were …

Answer 11

known as universities FOR the people of the state: the teaching, research, and outreach done there was to primarily benefit the masses in the state

Question 12

Cooperative extension system

Answer 12

land grand institutions were charged with the task of giving back to the community so each land grant developed a cooperative extension system to transmit knowledge about families to the masses
- goal was to help people help themselves by taking the university to the people.

Question 13

Service learning is also known as what?

Answer 13

FLE is also delivered through service learning and/or internship opportunities, that while helping the student, richly benefit communities that receive the Services

Question 14

NCFR stands for …

Answer 14

National council on family relations

Question 15

NCFR administers what credential?

Answer 15

the certified family life educator (CFLA) credential

Question 16

Traditional trickle down approach

Answer 16

researchers –> practitioners (FLE’s) —> families

Question 17

community collaborative approach

Answer 17

researchers, practitioners (FLEs) and families work together

Question 18

Expert approach

Answer 18

subject matter authorities whose function it is to transmit a fixed body of knowledge to the learners

Question 19

facilitator approach

Answer 19

seeks to help participants gain access to knowledge they already have within them; follows audiences lead in choices about what topics to discuss; assumes audience already has a great deal of knowledge
-no specific agenda

Question 20

critical inquirer approach

Answer 20

use questions to help participants think critically about the issues that are presented; audience has the responsibility to assess themselves and understand their own behavior

Question 21

collaborator approach

Answer 21

recognizes that both FLE and audience has something to contribute; educator brings research based info and participant brings life experience; there is an agenda but FLE is flexible based on audience; falls between expert and facilitator approach

Question 22

interventions approach

Answer 22

change agents; seek a specific cognitvive, attitudinal and behavior change

Question 23

eclectic approach

Answer 23

use elements from all approaches depending situation

Question 24

Questions to develop philosophy are …

Answer 24

1. what are your beliefs about family and the nature and quality of family life?
2. what are your beliefs about the purpose of family life education? -ex goals and objectives
3. what are your beliefs about the content of family life education? ex- what should be taught?
4. what are your beliefs about the learning process for FLE? ex- media, small or large groups