Question.528 - Discussion--Week 4: Philosophies of Education Survey 1010 unread replies.3030 replies. Inventory of Your Philosophies of Education Instructions: Complete the survey and answer questions on your own. For discussion, report your findings, noting surprises, disagreements, or agreements with your philosophy education. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [from Sadker's text, Chapter 6] As you read through the following statements about schools and teaching, decide how strongly you agree or disagree. We will help you interpret your results. Write your response to the left of each statement, using the following scale: 5 = AGREE STRONGLY 4 = AGREE 3 =NEITHER AGREE NOR DISAGREE 2=DISAGREE 1=DISAGREE STRONGLY ____ 1. A school curriculum should include a common body of information that all students should know. ____ 2. The school curriculum should focus on the great ideas that have survived through time. ____ 3. The gap between the real world and schools should be bridged through field trips, internships, and adult mentors. ____ 4. Schools should prepare students for analyzing and solving the social problems they will face beyond the classroom. ____ 5. Each student should determine their individual curriculum, and teachers should guide and help them. ____ 6. Students should not be promoted from one grade to the next until they have read and mastered certain key material. ____ 7. Schools, above all, should develop students’ abilities to think deeply, analytically, and creatively rather than focus on transient concerns like social skills and current trends. ____ 8. Whether inside or outside the classroom, teachers must stress the relevance of what students are learning to real and current events. ____ 9. Education should enable students to recognize injustices in society, and schools should promote projects to redress social inequities. ____ 10. Students who do not want to study much should not be required to do so. ____ 11. Teachers and schools should emphasize academic rigor, discipline, hard work, and respect for authority. ____ 12. Education is not primarily about workers and the world economic competition; learning should be appreciated for its own sake, and students should enjoy reading, learning, and discussing intriguing ideas. ____ 13. Teachers should design the school curriculum to respond to the experiences and needs of the students. ____ 14.Schools should promote positive group relationships by teaching about different ethnic and racial groups. ____ 15.The purpose of school is to help students understand themselves, appreciate their distinctive talents and insights, and find their own unique place in the world. ____ 16. For the United States to be competitive economically in the world marketplace, schools must bolster their academic requirements to train more competent workers. ____ 17. Page 154Teachers ought to teach from the classics because important insights related to many of today’s challenges and concerns are found in these Great Books. ____ 18. Students learn effectively through social interaction, so schools should plan for substantial social interaction in their curricula. ____ 19. Students should be taught how to be politically literate and learn how to improve the quality of life for all people. ____ 20. The central role of the school is to provide students with options and choices. The student must decide what and how to learn. ____ 21. Schools must provide students with a firm grasp of the books, people, and events that have shaped the nation’s heritage. ____ 22. The teacher’s main goal is to help students unlock the insights learned overtime to gain wisdom from the great thinkers of the past. ____ 23. Students should be active participants in the learning process, involved in democratic class decision-making and reflective thinking. ___ 24. Teaching should mean more than simply transmitting the Great Books, which are replete with biases and prejudices. Rather, schools need to identify a new list of Great Books more appropriate for today’s world and prepare students to create a better society than their ancestors did. ____ 25. Effective teachers help students discover and develop their personal values, even when those values conflict with traditional ones. ____ 26. Teachers should help students constantly reexamine their beliefs. In history, for example, students should learn about those who have been historically omitted: the poor, the non-European, women, and people of color. ____ 27.Frequent objective testing is the best way to determine what students know. Rewarding students when they learn, even when they learn small things, is the key to successful teaching. ____ 28. Education should be a responsibility of the family and the community, rather than delegated to formal and impersonal institutions, such as schools. Interpreting Your Responses Write your responses to statements 1 through 25 in the columns provided on p. 155, then tally up your score in each column. (We will return to items 26 to 28 in a bit.) Each column is labeled with philosophy and the name of the teacher who represented that view in this chapter’s opening scenario (the charter school discussion). The highest possible score in any one column is 25, and the lowest possible score is 5. Scores in the 20s indicate strong agreement, and scores below 10 indicate disagreement with the tenets of a particular philosophy. Putting Your Philosophy into the Classroom Student Interactive Activity Where Do You Stand on the Philosophy Spectrum? Note where you think your philosophy of education falls, and compare with your colleagues. Your scores in columns A through E, respectively, represent how much you agree or disagree with the beliefs of five major educational philosophies: essentialism, perennialism, progressivism, social reconstructionism, and existentialism. Check back to see if your scores reflect your initial reactions to these teachers’ points of view. For example, if you agreed with Jacob’s proposal to create an “Academy,” then you probably agreed with a number of the statements associated with essentialist education, and your score in this column may be fairly high.
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A. 20 B. 23 C. 24 D. 22 E. 19 What is your highest Score: 24 What is your lowest score: 19 I scored high on Progressivism., and low on Existentialism. I agree with the philosophy of Marcus. It is important to have an engaging classroom set up where teachers and students are equally engaged with the practical applications of the knowledge. It is imperative to understand the meaning of what we read in the real spectrum of the world we live.More Articles From Education_Teaching
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