Ch 1 Family Life Education Flashcards
What is family life education? (global perspective)
The educational effort to strengthen individual and family life through a family perspective
What is family life education? (outreach perspective)
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
FLE operational principles
- 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
FLE is one of the true multi-disciplinary fields with contributions from ….
- home economics
- family sociology
- social work
- marriage and family therapy
- social psychology
- education
- parenting education
- child development
Most common types of FLE are…
- premarital/marriage education
- parenting skills
- stress management
- anger management
- adaptation following divorce
- stepfamily education
Earliest FLE efforts in US can be traced to collaborations between what two things?
- church and state
- to ensure that children were raised in non abusvie, more healthy environments
When did self help books and how to books emerge?
early 1800’s
Around 1850 what group developed as a precursor to the PTA?
Child and mother study groups
What was the first form of FLE?
informal support groups sharing info
- ex maternal associations were formed to discuss best child rearing practices
What was the Morrill Act?
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
Land grant Institutions were …
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
Cooperative extension system
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.
Service learning is also known as what?
FLE is also delivered through service learning and/or internship opportunities, that while helping the student, richly benefit communities that receive the Services
NCFR stands for …
National council on family relations
NCFR administers what credential?
the certified family life educator (CFLA) credential
Traditional trickle down approach
researchers –> practitioners (FLE’s) —> families
community collaborative approach
researchers, practitioners (FLEs) and families work together
Expert approach
subject matter authorities whose function it is to transmit a fixed body of knowledge to the learners
facilitator approach
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
critical inquirer approach
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
collaborator approach
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
interventions approach
change agents; seek a specific cognitvive, attitudinal and behavior change
eclectic approach
use elements from all approaches depending situation
Questions to develop philosophy are …
- what are your beliefs about family and the nature and quality of family life?
- what are your beliefs about the purpose of family life education? -ex goals and objectives
- what are your beliefs about the content of family life education? ex- what should be taught?
- what are your beliefs about the learning process for FLE? ex- media, small or large groups
