Ahhh... the last blog of the semester. This is simply an opportunity for you to ask and answer each other's questions and discuss anything that you think will be helpful in preparation for the final. I would suggest looking at your class notes, handouts from class, your reading assignments, and the chapter reviews in the textbook along with your review sheet. This is primarily an open forum for you so check back often during the week and comment/question/ponder/review as much as you would like.
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Anybody care to give an explanation on who Horace Mann & Horace Kallen are?
ReplyDeleteHorace Mann was the father of common schools as he believed that free, public schools regardless of class would uplift and unify society.
DeleteHorace Kallen believed that educating those of different backgrounds together in a group setting would provide a varied perspective and allow students to learn from one another. Stronger education through diversity; learn from others and their various backgrounds.
What do we need to know about Noah Webster, John Dowey, and Jerol Manheim specifically? Thanks for your help.
ReplyDeleteNoah Webster- Father of American education, he said schools and textbooks are instruments to create a new american society.he also wrote a dictionary of english words we should know, to create a sense of nationalism.
DeleteJohn Dowey- He pointed out that any effort to train children for a specific occupation was bound to be self-defeating, because as new industries emerged and old ones disappeared, individuals who had been trained for a specific trade would be left behind with obsolete skills. so we should nurture their learning. (he was a social philosopher)
Jerol Manheim- Talks about how media is manipulated by groups.
Horace Mann was an American education reformist and Horace Kallen was an American philosopher. Can anyone explain to me what descriptive, substantive and symbolic representation is?
ReplyDeleteDescriptive is when a person looks physically like a group they are representing. Substantive is when a person has the same goals as a group they represent but does not necessarily look like them. Symbolic is when someone looks like the group they represent but does not share the same ideas.
ReplyDeleteWhat was the grandfather clause from the race and ethnicity unit?
Amanda, the grandfather clause refers to the post-civil war voting law that black americans could vote if their grandfather did.
ReplyDeleteCan anyone elaborate on what the arguments for descriptive representatives were that we went over in class?
ReplyDeleteWe talked a lot about Dovi's article. She prefers descriptive representation/ believes we should have a group of representatives that look like the people they are representing. She says that this is important and preferable to non-descriptive representation because 1) Role Model Argument- we benefit from seeing members of historically disadvantaged groups in a position of power
ReplyDelete2) Justice Argument- the descriptive reps. are needed to compensate for past and current injustices (shows that we are overcoming things)
3) Overlooked Interests argument- allows for perspectives, issues, interests of overlooked interest groups to rise on the political agenda
4) Revitalized Democracy Argument- (American political culture at its core he said) If you have a more diverse rep. body you are increasing participation, motivates people, and increases the legitimacy of democratic institutions (issues of trust/ believing in them, etc. => approval ratings go up, etc.)
Those are the ones I wrote down!
We basically summarized them in the last class as well, and I believe you can at least find the list of the arguments in the Prezis as well.
DeleteIs there anything in particular we needed to take note of with regards to white privilege? I have the general idea down, I just want to make sure that I'm not missing any specifics.
ReplyDeleteAll I have from lecture, besides like he said the readings, was:
Delete"white priv" = concrete benefits, access to resources and social rewards, power to shape society by virtue of their skin color. Whites are taught not to recognize this. (and then I wrote something about "to maintain the myth of mediocrity"?)
Ex. 1) Whites have the ability to be non-aware of race.
2) Whites do not feel like they speak for their "race".
*meritocracy. that makes more sense ha, sorry.
DeleteIn response to Dan, there is nothing more I can remember specifically that we needed to know. Everything should be in the reading from awhile back.
ReplyDeleteAlso I think a point of clarification for Matt/ Ali...for Noah Webster- I agree that you could say Noah Webster wrote the dictionary as part of his wishes to create unity in the schools (and hoped it would result in national unity) through a common language, via its use in textbooks, but I thought it was more the fact that it contained American pronunciations of English words, not things he thought we should know. The person who wrote a dictionary (/appendix) of things he thought Americans should know was E.D. Hirsch, in his books attempting to call attention to what he felt was a huge, and growing, problem of cultural illiteracy. I get what you were saying but I would just be worried about being a little confusing when writing them on the actual exam.
ReplyDeleteWhat do we need to know about Thomas Jefferson in relation to education?
ReplyDeleteThomas Jefferson wanted education to serve as self-protection of individuals' freedoms. He feared that the government would be corrupted by tyrannical authorities and the only way to ensure the public tranquility was through mass education.
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