Philosophies Flashcards
Social development theory
Social interaction for cognitive development
Robert Havighurst
Developmental tasks
Jean Piaget
Theory of cognitive development and the four stages
Four major stages
Sensorimotor
Pre operational
Concrete operations
Formal operations
Jerome Bruner
Series of developmental stages
Benjamin bloom
Wrote Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Predicting learning outcomes by assessing 3 factors
BF skinner
Behavioral theory
Frederick Douglas
Improved vocational schools to help plight of blacks
Booker T Washington
Early black educators.
Development of education in US
Maria Montessori
Child sized furniture
Independent work by kids under guidance of teacher
Ella Flagg Young
Superintendent of Chicago public school in 1909
First female president of National Education Association
Teacher-centered philosophies
Essentialism
Behaviorism
Positivism
Essentialism
Based on assumption that students should learn basic facts regarding social and physical world
Behaviorism
BF Skinner
Behavior determined by environment, response to external stimuli, related to realism.
Teacher controls stimuli of kids
Positivism
Focus on observable, measurable info, rejects believes about mind spirit and consciousness, reality explained by laws of matter and motion, knowledge based on sense perceptions, objective reality
Student-centered philosophies
Progressivism
Humanism
Constructivism
Progressivism
Dewey
All learning is active, intellectual, social, and emotional
Curriculum begins with child’s interests and experiences
Humanism
Education should enhance goodness
Should develop free, self-actualizing person
Constructivism
Developing personal meaning through hands-on activities
Students construct meaning through critical thinking and big ideas
Erasmus
Dutch Renn humanist
Wrote in Latin style
Humanistic theory of education
Frederich Frobel
Laid foundation for modern education based on recognition that children have different needs and skills
First kindergarten
Women best teachers for young kids
John Locke
Blank slate
Teachers need to create a nonthreatening learning environment
Socrates
Knowledge is virtue
Socratic method-centers on use of guiding question
Lev Vygotsky
Social development theory
Dame schools
Precursor to primary school
Teach the 3 R’s and sewing or homemaking
Horace Mann
Father of American Ed
Educate pro educators
Prepping kids for democratic future
Department of Education
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helps est effective school systems
Department of Defense (DOD)
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Military, Naval, Coast Guard and Air Force Academies
school system for children of military staff wherever they’re stationed.