CHOOSE THE BEST RESPONSE:

 

The purpose of education should be:

 

  1. to develop the ability to think clearly, use intellectual reasoning, solve problems, and make rational decisions.

 

  1. to nurture unique potentials, develop creativity and sensitivity, and encourage integrity, love of learning, and self-fulfillment.

 

  1. to diagnose needs and abilities, and design instructional strategies which develop functional skills and competencies.

 

  1. to transmit basic knowledge, skills, traditions, academics, and values, to further the heritage and traditions of our country.

 

  1. to create a future world condition of peace, harmony, equality, love, and balance with our environment and each other.

 

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Associated Belief Systems:

 

Response #1 = Cognitive processor.  Schools develop rational thought processes, problem solving, and decision making.  How to learn is more important than what to teach.  Students are meaning-makers, and teachers mediate capacities.  Inquiry method, cognitive taxonomy, metacognition, Socratic method.  Piaget, Vygotski, Montessori.

 

Response #2 = Self-actualizer.  Schools are child-centered.  The teacher facilitates learning by bringing out potentials and capacities.  Multi-sensory instruction, student choice, self-direction, affective domain focus, creativity, Gestalt psychology.  Perls, Maslow, Rogers.

 

Response #3 = Technologist.  Schools are input/throughput/output systems in which data and opportunities to learn skills are provided.  Task analysis, field independence, diagnosis, analysis, planning, accountability, measurable learning.  Skinner, Pavlov, Watson.

 

Response #4 = Academic rationalist.  Schools have the wisdom and experience to know what is best for students, who are vessels to be filled.  Teacher-centered instruction, rigor, essential truths, classics, traditional values.  Lecture, memorization, drill, discipline, standardized tests, mastery.  Ravitch, Bennett, Finn.

 

Response #5 = Social reconstructionist.  School is an instrument of social change, and students are social beings inherently responsible for society.  Grass-roots, cooperative learning, simulations, role play, global education, belief systems, pluralism, ecology, love.  Ferguson, Toffler, Lerner.