I have chosen to compare and contrast John Dewey and Nel Noddings views on their educational goals, a social justice curriculum, liberation education, issues of standardized testing and the effects on students and teachers. Dewey’s main educational goal is that education should have two sides: social and psychological. His evaluations are based on how the child interacts with society and how he/she contributes to the good of society. Dewey was the first one to say we need to look at the students to decide how to teach, a modern-day form of ‘differentiation’. He believed that all students should have the opportunity to take part in their own learning.
Conformity vs. Individuality State education and student individuality are what causes much tension in public schools. Schools want to achieve the same goal of producing a good student, but through what means? Are mandatory classes going to teach students to think for themselves of how to blend in with conformity and obey authority? It is in the schools best interest to balance these ideas and not lean towards only one, and not have a school only based on conformity or individuality, but should balance both. Mandatory classes are used to set a basic system and to set standard classes for everyone, since everyone must learn the same things such as math, reading, and science.
An obvious strength would be that education greatly helps society to come together and teaches the important life skills that are needed in order ro build up society. There were also a number of criticisms to Durkheim's theory. Hargreave's greatly criticised Durkheim by saying that there was too much stress on the developing individual rather than on the duties and responsibilities of the individual. The study also does not look at why individuals do not achieve within education A second functionalist perspective is Parson's, 1961. Parson's stated that education acts as a bridge between family and wider society.
As John Dewey once stated “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself”, his perspective of education also emphasizes on the collaboration among learners to an end of academic achievement, just like how importance for people to interact with others if they are to succeed. Reading the excerpt from Democracy and Education (Dewey, 1916), we can be certain that the idea of the group in learning is, to Dewey, of crucial significance. Every single person has a different original environment from which he was born, raised, grew up, and thus is so rooted to it that escaping from the limitations of this social group is not a simple task. Yet Dewey believes the group in learning could give a mean for people to conquer the challenge and “come into living contact with a broader environment” since they not only perform their own action but also have to perceive that of others as reference and react to it. This whole process offers opportunities to break down “those barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their activity”.
This task consumes half of junior year and most of senior year too. This assignment is supposed to represent what you have throughout your high school career. According to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Senior Exit Handbook, “The goal of the Senior Exit Project is to validate that CMS students have acquired the skills, knowledge, and concepts necessary to perform well when they leave high school.” This one project alone is not sufficient enough to determine whether or not students are competent enough to leave high school. All students that leave high school are not going to college; the skills displayed in a high scoring Senior Exit Project are those of a college bound
Teaching assistant level 3 Assignment 12 Question 1 Outline the daily /weekly routine for the pupil and or the class whose learning you support? Morning Reception children should arrive between 8:45 and 8:50am and proceed quietly to their classroom where the teacher will be waiting. Parents are welcome to accompany their children into school. School commences, for reception children, at 8:55am. Parents should deliver their children to the classroom via the reception class door and not be walking through the school as older children will have already begun their school day.
Kent J. Fetzer expressed, “Our biggest problem with a school uniform policy is the anti-individuality message it sends.” He feels students lose their freedom when forced to conform to only certain apparels. He believes in letting students experience freedom in order to learn how to act responsibly. I strongly believe teens need to learn how to act responsibly at a young age to develop skills for the future, but I refuse to believe that uniforms take away individuality. In contrast to Fetzer’s beliefs, Mike Kelly proclaimed, "Uniforms instill discipline, help students focus on their studies and eliminate pressure on parents to outfit their kids." He believes uniforms help parents as well as the students.
The stability in the classroom is necessary to meet basic needs of students. I believe firmly that if basic human needs are not met then there is no hope for curricular learning to take place. The student needs to be comfortable to learn. To correct a behavior that is already in progress prevention can also be a method of attack. The key is to discover the antecedent and change it, remove it, or take action to create a new one.
The responsibility to deliver the proper and unbiased learning curriculum lies in the hands of the educator. Although, generally the curriculum is approved and handed down by the state; the educator must possess the capacity to lecture the students in a proper manner. Students must not be treated or educated differently on the basis of religion, gender, or nationality. Every effort must be made by the educator in order to provide an environment which is conducive to the learning process. An educator should constantly be revising lesson plans and expanding their own knowledge in order to deliver an optimal learning experience for the students.
The reason that students should not have to take the exit exam to graduate from high school is because standardized tests only evaluate certain subjects, tests do not truly reflect what the person has learned, and tests do not do anything to prepare kids for the future. Is it important to require a minimum standard for all kids to achieve before graduating from high school? Proponents of the exam feel that it is. They feel that if students know they will be