Topics for Midterm Flashcards
List the 10 characteristics of a profession
* Institutional monopoly of services
* Autonomy
* Education and training requirements
* Provision of essential service
* Self governance
* Professional association
* Public trust
* Prestige, benefits and pay
* Professional behavior (Professional code of conduct)
* Lifelong learning
What is the ATA professional code of conduct?
* Minimum standards of professional conduct
* Anyone can file a complaint of unprofessional conduct against a member
* ATA investigates each complaint
* Teachers found guilty of unprofessional conduct face penalties such as reprimand, a fine, expulsion from the association, suspension or cancellation of certification
What is the role of the ATA?
Protects the profession and support teachers
Describe how the ATA got it’s legal basis
The Alberta Teaching Act of 1935 gave the ATA it’s legal basis
Describe the Constitution Act
* Established Canada as a nation
* section 93 granted authority for education to the provinces
* Guarantees Roman Catholics and Protestants minority rights to a separate education system
what is the Canadian Teachers Federation (Alberta Teachers)?
* Intervenes whenever the interests of teachers and students are at stake
* Continues to assist all teacher organizations across Canada in difficult times
What is the Alberta Teachers Association?
The Alberta Teachers Association:
* is a professional organization of teachers
* promotes and advances public education
* safeguards standards of professional practice
* serves as an advocate for its members.
What is the Alberta Teacher’s Alliance (1918)?
* The Alberta Teachers Alliance was established during World War I.
* Teaching was not really viewed as a “profession”.
* United teachers but had limited power
What is the Teaching Profession Act (1935), Educational?
* Gave the Alberta Teachers Association it’s legal foundation
Describe the Alberta Act from 1905
The minority rights are written into the Constitution Act enacted in the Alberta Act (1905), and encapsulated in the School Act.
Describe section 93 of the BNA act
section 93 granted authority for education to the provinces
What does the School Act describe?
- The relationship of the minister to students, parents and school jurisdictions
- Provides for the system of administration and financing of education in Alberta
- Defines the roles and responsibilities of school authorities, superintendents, principals and teachers, as well as a code of conduct for student
Who is Paulo Freire?
Paulo Freire, writer of the Pedagogy of the Oppressed
* He was a Brazilian educator
* He expanded on the progressivist approach to include social activism in change
* He was against the banking model, whereby teacher deposits information into students
* Helped the poor overcome their sense of powerlessness and worked on empowering them
* He was exiled in 1964 but returned to Brazil
* He became the Minister of Education and is responsible for two 2/3 of Brazil schools
* Believe students must be in charge of their own education and destiny
Who opposed the banking model? Explain the banking model…
It was Paulo Freire who oppossed the “banking model” of education. The “banking model”:
* Where a student is viewed as an empty bank account to be filled by the teacher
* Student is passive, teacher is source of knowledge
* The basic critique was not new– Rousseau’s conception of the child as an active learner was already a step away from John Locke’s notion of “tabula rasa”
What is critical pedagogy?
Critical pedagogy is a teaching method that aims to help in challenging and actively struggling against any form of social oppression
What is social reproduction?
Social reproduction is the emphasis on the structures and activities that transmit social inequality from one generation to the next
What is cultural transmission?
A way a group of people in a society pass on information
What is socialization in regards to education?
The process through which:
* Individuals develop a sense of self
* Acquired knowledge
* Skills
* Values
* Norms all in an effort to fill social roles
What is the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)?
The Educational Resources Information Center otherwise known as ERIC is an educational database