Title: School and Society Mid-Term Flashcards | Quizlet
Headings: School and Society Mid-Term
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Educational Psychology

Content: The postmodernist educator focuses on raising consciousness about social inequalities. True
Existentialism represents a break with idealism and realism, as well as with practices based on them, in its suggestion that definitions of concepts such as truth and value are ultimately personal and subjective. True
A pragmatist approach to education would embody which of the following sets of concepts? experience, experiment, environment
For the existentialist educator, values are
freely chosen. Progressive educators focus their attention primarily on the
learner. The philosophy that would support a subject-matter curriculum emphasizing the great and enduring ideas is
idealism. Thomas Jefferson's Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge is an important benchmark in the history of public education because it
marked a transition in the broad purpose of schooling from religious intruction, as had existed in the colonial period, to public schools based on the needs of a democratic society. New York's educational system found it's roots in the Reformed Church of the _______ colonists. Dutch
Normal schools were important for women because they provided opportunities for higher education. True
Certifying teachers to teach in one-room schools in the 1800s was the responsibility of the local school board.