He believed that all students should have the opportunity to take part in their own learning. Education was not only a place to gain content knowledge, but was a place to learn how to live. Schools shouldn’t just be a place to learn a pre-determined set of skills but rather to realize one’s full potential and their ability to use these skills. He said, “An ounce of experience is better than a ton of theory, simply because it is only in the experience that any theory has vital and verifiable significance.” In Dewey’s opinion the role of teachers are social servants. They are there to assist children on how to act appropriately on ideas they form themselves.
Aaron Cicourel and John Kitsuse’s study of educational counsellors in an American High school shows how labelling can disadvantage working-class students and it states in item A that ‘they were negatively labelled as non-academic and often as ‘difficult’’. This is because counsellors play an important role in deciding which students will get onto courses that prepare them for higher education. They found from their study that although they claimed to judge them on their ability, in practice they mainly judged them on the basis of their social class and/or race. Even where students had similar grades, counsellors were more likely to label middle-class
Solution focused counseling in middle and high schools. ACA. Berg, I. K., & Peter, D. J. (1996). Solutions-building conversation: Co-constructing a sense of competence with clients.
Running head: AVOCACY FOR INCLUSION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS Advocacy for Inclusion the Controversial Concept in Education Rochester College Abstract Any discussion about inclusion should address several important questions: Do we value all children equally? What do we mean by "inclusion"? Are there some children for whom "inclusion" is inappropriate? Inclusion is a term which expresses commitment to educate each child, to the maximum extent appropriate, in the school and classroom he or she would otherwise attend. It involves bringing the support services to the child (rather than moving the child to the services) and requires only that the child will benefit from being in the class (rather than having to keep up with the other students).
Democracy and social reform are a cornerstone of Dewey’s educational philosophies. Throughout his writings on education Dewey emphasizes that education and learning are both a social and interactive process. He makes a strong case for the importance of schools not only as a place to gain content knowledge, but also as a place to learn how to live. In his eyes, the purpose of the education system should not revolve around the acquisition of a set curriculum, but rather the development of the whole student and the ability to use those skills for the greater good. He notes that “to prepare him for the future life means to give him command of himself; it means so to train him that he will have the full and ready use of his capabilities” (Dewey, 1897, p6).
AERA: Washington, DC. Strike,K.A., & Soltis, J.F. (1992). The ethics of teaching (2nd ed). New York: Teachers College Press.
By studying multi-ethnic schools in low SES areas, they tested for perceptions of safety, peer victimization, social dissatisfaction, and self worth. The reason they tested for these factors was to see whether a feeling of safety in school results in any developmental speed bumps, or not. There were two sets of results - one based on classroom diversity, and the other on ethnic diversity at the school level. At the classroom level, ethnic diversity had a negative correlation with perceptions of peer victimization and feelings of loneliness, while having a positive correlation with feelings of safety. Perceptions of self worth also increased with greater ethnic diversity.
2. Identify the eight basic tenets of educational philosophy and discuss which philosophical questions, arguments, and positions have significantly shaped K-12 public education in the U.S.? Provide detailed examples of the educational phases of our current public educational system. 3. Describe an educational organization that reflects your beliefs in educational philosophy.
Therefore, it is completely up to the parents to make sure that their children are on the same level as the traditional school ones are. That can have a good and a bad impact on those kids. If they are doing everything, and studying their curriculum correctly, that means that this child is a self-starter and they will survive the job market later on. Now if the parents are not encouraging their kids to learn, and to study, that kid will have a difficult time when they have to survive on their own. Parents often question themselves about the credibility of the Home School education, and also about a system or a support group for them.
Public school is better than home schooling because public school mentally prepares students for the real world; giving students knowledge on how to deal with bullying and peer pressure, and also allowing them to interact with different students and teachers. "Yes, read that part again-- government schools were never about truly educating your child; they were and are about creating happy workers and taxpayers, people afraid to challenge the status quo and unable to read and think for themselves. " (Vaughan 647). Although some parents have jobs and are not able to home school their children, public school could be their option. Public school education prepares students for the real world by displaying to them how school is a job by giving them the imagery of having an 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. job that comes with hard work and dedication.