Shared Flashcard Set

Details

EDFON 420 EXAM 1
BALL STATE
40
Education
Undergraduate 4
02/01/2012

Additional Education Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
The Noble Lie
Definition
All citizens are brothers and sisters from the earth though they are not completely equal
- Justification: because it's need to help the guardians "care" even more
- "the happiness of the whole is more important than that of any of its parts"

Those picked to be the leaders have a different makeup then the others
Term
Selection of Leaders
Definition
Guardians must be educated, obedient, self-discipline
- watched from childhood
- believe that they must always work for the advantage of the community
Term
Guardians, Auxiliaries, & workers
Definition
Guardians:Wisdom
Auxiliaries: Courage
Workers: self-discipline
Term
The "Myth of the Metals"
Definition
-Guardians - gold:
-Auxiliaries (military)- silver
-Workers – iron/copper
Term
The Shepherding Analogy
Definition
Guardians are the shepherds, Auxiliaries are the dogs, and Workers are the sheep.
Term
Sources of Enlightenment thought
Definition
- Enlightenment thinkers --> Locke & Rousseau
- Revolution
- Progress
- Faith
- Morality
Term
3-Main Aspects of the Ideology of the Enlightenment
Definition
- the primacy of reason
- the idea of progress
- a new view of Human Nature
Term
Bill for the more general Diffusion of Knowledge
Definition
- purpose = block the rise of tyranny > defeated because of taxpayer support for education
Term
Argument for women's education
Definition
- rush believed women and children needed education so that they could be controlled
Term
John Locke
Definition
-Tabula Rasa
-Changes in human nature
-the need to educate people in the proper way so that they would grow up and be virtues and moral people
Term
Tabula Rasa
Definition
Blank Slate
Term
What purpose did education serve for the founders
Definition
Term
The natural Aristocracy
Definition
- Meritocratic principles
- in opposition to the natural aristocracy
- education was the identification and cultivation of talent
Term
Jefferson's view of the press
Definition
- need press everyone should receive them and be capable of reading them
Term
Crusade against ignorance
Definition
Term
Benjamin Rush
Definition
Arguments for education
-the institution would lessen our taxes
- increase our understanding of finance
-promote more profitable agriculture
- lead to improved transportation
- prisoners cost society more
Term
Rush position on religion and education
Definition
- yous religious doctrines in schools
Term
Jefferson's position on religion and education
Definition
secularism = shouldn't mix education and region
Term
The Primacy of Reason
Definition
a better guide than tradition, custom, and dogmatic faith
- universe a machine
- humankind capable of great feats
- Galileo, Copernicus, Newton
Term
The Idea of Progress
Definition
- Continual individual and societal progress toward perfection
- changing the world to what out to be
- revolution as an option
- Education as the vehicle
Term
A New view of Human Nature
Definition
- Perfectibility of the individual
- Duties to God and to nature
- Work ethic
- Male and Female virtue
Term
The key tenets Jefferson's "Virgina Plan"
Definition
schools of the hundreds
- each county is divided into districts
Grammar Schools
William and Mary College
Term
Who should be educated
Definition
all white boys and girls
Term
What knowledge should be taught
Definition
reading, writing and arithmetic -- Elementary

Greek, Latin, geography, and higher branches of numerical arithmetic -- Grammar

specialization in science -- University
Term
What values should be taught
Definition
self-education, nationalism
Term
Kid catching process
Definition
the white men would come snatch the kids away tieing them with a rope and send them off to boarding schools
-Assimilation process
name change, language forbidden, given clothes, hair cut
Term
The impact of the boarding schools on individuals and families
Definition
-Jodie --> 8 of ten children died and he couldn't find the daughter due to name change
- girl locked in college for speaking language
Term
the human cost on children, families, and communities,
Definition
language lost, customs lost, numbers shrunk
Term
examples of kid catchings
Definition
Navajo girl ran away and ran all the way home
the man who lost all his kids but one
Term
The process of assimilation
Definition
- appearance
- name
- language
Term
Richard Henry Pratt
Definition
- founder of Carlisle institute
Term
The significance of the naming process
Definition
- self improvement
- Receive name over time
- reward for achievement
- trace for relatives or tribal figures
- cultural significance
- in order to transfer property
Term
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Definition
- guaranteed the civil and property rights, American rights, legally allowed to preserve their culture and language
Term
Subtractive schooling
Definition
- take away Mexican language and culture
Term
Americanization
Definition
organized national political movement that compelled immigrants to adopt certain "Anglo- American" ways while reaming at the bottom of the socioeconomic strata.
Term
School access
Definition
- more equitable and positive
- as enrollment and availability increased so did access
Term
quality of education
Definition
- inferior education
- segregated
- administrative mal treatment
-walk-outs and rallies
- diagnosed as intellectually inferior
Term
curricular policies
Definition
- switched to subtractive
- switched from the 3 R's to the 3 C's = Civics instruction, culture norms, command to the English language
Term
patterns of school performance
Definition
- high high school withdraw rates increased
- # of years completed
- there were some exceptions of kids who succeeded
Term
language
Definition
- not allowed to speak Spanish
Supporting users have an ad free experience!