In today’s world educators worry about lacking basic skills in Reading and Mathematics that our students are having and focus more on modern technology and having our students think out of the box. This discussion will include my personal education philosophy, types of philosophies, my personal results of the Philosophy Preference Assessment and how my personal philosophy will influence my instructional practices and my choice of classroom curriculum. There are five educational philosophies. They are perennialism, idealism, realism, experimentalism, and existentialism. Wiles stated, "Perennialists believe education is a constant due to a human’s ability to reason, therefore education needs to focus on developing rationality.
What strategies can you use to help communicate with individuals who do not speak English? Illustrate your response with examples and supporting evidence from your textbook. (SLOs 4, 8) Answer: Culture and language can have a huge impact on the development of one’s speech. This is all a part of understanding the audience that is going to be listening to your presentation. I know from experience that jargon can sometimes be very hard to understand if one is not accustomed to it.
Assignment #1: Analyzing Critiques of Education The following essay will analyze the critiques of education found in Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”, Mark Bauerlein’s “The New Bibliophobes” and William Golding’s “Thinking as a Hobby”. The reader is able to see in both Paulo Freire’s and in William Golding’s writings, how the education system is critiqued from opposing angles. The critique in Bauerlein’s will be more focused on reading and how the author is opposed to the constant use of technology by today’s youth. All three reading have something in common; which is how they criticize the young adult population. When comparing and contrasting all three essays, Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” is more persuasive since it analyzes the crisis in education and provides an immediate and possible solution.
Also, how it should be banned, there are, believe it or not, some positives to all of the negatives. One, it is good for kids who are behind or need extra help. For example, a student does not understand the material and is academically struggling. This student should be given homework to help the material to gradually become easier and raise the students grades. Greg Toppo agrees with these statements on the positivity of homework for struggling students.
Explain what is meant by the term compensatory education Compensatory education are government educational policies such as operation head start in the USA that seek to tackle the problem of under achievement by providing extra support and funding to schools and families in deprived areas. Suggest three material factors that might cause working class educational under achievement. Poor housing can affect pupils underachievement for example overcrowding can have a direct effect making it hard for them to study as there is nowhere to do the homework or disturbed sleep from sharing bedrooms. Diet and health can affect pupils under achievement as Marilyn Howard 2001 notes that young people from poorer homes have lower intakes of energy, vitamins and minerals. Poor nutrition affects health which will lower children’s energy levels.
Evaluate the claim that the main reason why working-class children underachieve in education is their poverty. (20 Marks) It can be strongly argued that the claim for working-class children underachieving is due to their poverty, some reason for and against this are written below. One of the reasons for which enforces the statement above is the internal part, for example an internal factor of working-class (W.C) underachieving in school is the theory of labelling. The labelling theory is a theory that suggests teachers, mostly middle-class, are generally known for labelling their students. If a W.C student is labelled by a middle-class (M.C) teacher the student often believe that the teacher is right therefore they take that label they have been given and they become a self-fulfilling prophecy which means they accept the label they have been given and stay that standard, this is basically saying if a student is labelled negatively they stay negative because they are ‘fulfilling their own prophecy’ so they are now going to underachieve in education.
Equal Funding, Too Much to Ask For A problem in American society today is the disparity in the quality of education between the social classes of this country. This problem occurs especially in areas of hardship. These poorer neighborhoods suffer from much lower standards in schools than richer areas of the country. Without quality education, many students will feel too much pressure and drop out of school or if they do graduate, will lack the basic skills necessary to exceed in higher education. Public schools in poverty stricken neighborhoods should receive the same funding as public schools in rich neighborhoods because the quality of the neighborhood should not affect whether a school receives better or worse funding.
Children with a lack of cultural capital are more likely to use the restricted code (limited vocabulary) which disadvantages them at school as they feel excluded and are therefore less successful. Working-class children typically use the restricted code. Bourdieu argues that cultural capital affects academic achievement as it ties in with educational capital. Middle-class children with cultural capital are better equipped to meet the demands of the school curriculum.
Causes of Failing in the educational system It is unfortunate that now in such an advance era, the educational system is not a strong point in society and continues to fail. Education is one of the most important steps in creating a life in this social age. There are several reasons the educational system could be failing in showing importance in a student’s life. Some of the main reasons believed to be for a failing educational system are: funding, accountability, and “one size fits all” curriculum teaching. To begin with, Funding for the educational system is greatly based on the local property taxes in the area of a public school, and is one major cause of failing public schools, due to unequal funding and lack in necessary instructive and learning tools.
However, in the essay, he nearly proposes that the concept of "problem-posing" is the solution to satisfy both teacher and student. Freire states: "Whereas banking education anesthetizes and inhibits creative power, problem-posing education involves a constant unveiling or reality. The former attempts to maintain the submersion of consciousness; the latter strives for the emergence of consciousness and critical intervention in reality." I believe that the overall purpose of the text persuades people to understand that the current concept of teaching hinders students' ability to rely on themselves to come up with the answer. I believe that Freire achieved his goal of explaining both concepts, you can clearly understand that he is against the idea of the banking concept and wishes to replace it with the