FINAL: Ch. 12 Education Flashcards
Means for promoting conformity to norms
Social control
An approach to education based on student-teacher collaboration
Integrative curriculum
A non bureaucratic approach to education based on democracy, flexibility, and noncompetitiveness
Open classroom
A non bureaucratic classroom structure in which students study in groups, with teachers acting as guides rather than as the controlling agents determining all their activities
Cooperative learning
Publicly funded schools that are operated like private schools by public school teachers and administrators
Charter schools
Public schools that attempt to achieve excellence by specializing in a certain area
Magnet schools
The capacity for thinking abstractly
Cognitive ability
An approach to education based on the work of humanistic psychologists
Humanistic education