Postmodernism To Essentialism Flashcards
Existentialism in postmodernism
Knowledge
Pragmatism (postmodernism)
Knowledge is provisional
social problems.
What is the education “sin” of postmodernism
The passing on of stored knowledge.
What does the curriculum of postmodernism look like?
It turns away from hard and fast subject matter categories
Teachers in a post modernism school
They are thinkers not relying on curriculum
Progressivism
- A part of a larger social and political movement in America in the late 19th and early 20th century’s
- reaction to massive urbanization
According to Dr. night how is postmodernism helpful?
It helps make contributions in education
what kind of movement was progressivism?
It began as a social movement turned into a political movement
What is the main goal of progressivism?
Improve working and living conditions for everyone
What was the educational philosophy of progressivism?
Reaction against traditional education which was stressed and on formal methods of instruction mental learning and the classics
Who parentheses were the main proponents of progressivism?
John Dewey, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Sigmund Freud
What did Sigmund Freud do for progressive education?
He created a more open learning environment, more student self expression
How did the progressive educational reform lose its original bass in the 1950s?
Many schools did adapt some ideas, but it did not catch on nationally.
What was the main belief of progressivism education?
Focusing on the whole child pupils are active not passive, active learning experimentation
What is the school’s role in progressive education?
Schools should be a microorganism of society, school is a democracy. Schools should be tools, not the authority.
