| A | B |
|---|
| progressivism | emphasizes democracy, experience, and relevance |
| epistemology | study of how knowledge is gained |
| core curriculum | Key element in the "back to basics" approach |
| social reconstructionism | integrates academics with efforts to improve society |
| ethics | study of right and wrong |
| Great Books | curriculum at perennialist school |
| existentialism | stresses free individual development |
| empiricism | claims sensory experience is the basis of all knowledge |
| ethnocentrism | viewing one's own culture as superior |
| A teacher-centered philosophy | essentialism & perennialism |
| Essentialists would put emphasis on | math and science |
| The idea that classic ideas should be the focus of contemporary education reflects? | perennialism |
| Progressivism's educational advocate was | John Dewey |
| Many progressivists believe | people learn better by experiencing & doing things |
| John Dewey founded what school? | The Laboratory School |
| One who believes existentialist believes schools should | help students accept themselves as unique, responsible individuals |
| Before beginning a new unit on the water cycle, the teacher refers to water in nature. She is using what? | scaffolding |
| The use of positive reinforcement is based on | behaviorism |
| _____ believe that free will is an illusion | behaviorists |
| Today's focus on stronger standards and more testing reflects? | essentialism |
| The Socratic method involves | questioning the student to draw out answers |
| The founder of the Academy in Athens | Plato |
| Which statement would an advocate of a teacher-centered philosophy make? | Education should transmit the values and knowledge that have survived through time |
| One teacher believes children should be made to reason deductively; another favors lots of hands-on learning. These teachers have different views of | epistemology |
| The branch of philosophy most concerned with schools cover in a class on values | ethics |
| The idea of eternal forms (human appetites) are underlying all existence | Plato |
| Plato | disciple of Socrates; founded the Academy |
| Socrates | challenged students primarily through questions |
| Adler | Advocate of Perennialism |
| Bagley | popularized term essentialism in 1930 |
