Compare and contrast the ideas of Froebel, Montessori, and Piaget on early childhood education.

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minimum 2 1/2 pages

*APA style required

Instructions: Choose two of the following questions to respond to. Submit your exam in the appropriate category in Blackboard. Avoid 1st person writing. Responses should demonstrate support from class content (notes, discussion, readings).

Readings:

  • File Teaching_Craft_orProfession_1956.pdf (11.58 MB)
  • File DeweyMyPedagogicCreed1897.pdf (169.87 KB)
  • File But_that’s_just_good_teaching_The_case_for_culturally_relevant_Pedagogy.pdf (556.412 KB)
  • File EnablingorDisabling_Kauffman_etal.pdf (4.117 MB)
  • File Hardy_TheNewDiversity.pdf (4.186 MB)
  • File Ravitch_Diversity_Tradgedy_Schools.pdf (1.598 MB)
  • File Curriculum HistConnectionsto Present.pdf (353.869 KB)
  • File Eisner_EducationalObjectives_HelporHinderance.pdf (2.648 MB)
  • File Foshay_You_and_me_andIandThou.pdf (2.299 MB)
  • File KingCanute_Davis_2004.pdf (1.321 MB)
  • File Kudzu, Rabbits, and School Reform.pdf (130.249 KB)
  • File Peddiwell_SaberToothCurriculum.pdf (4.404 MB)
  • Ornstein, A. C., Levine, D. U., Gutek, G. L., Vocke, D. E. (2017). Foundations of Education(13th ed). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

Questions:

  1. Disagreement over the status of teaching as a profession or semi-profession has ensued for decades.  Choose a position and argue for it.
  2. Horace Mann and other common-school leaders believed that public education should construct a commonly shared general culture. Address the relevancy of such a policy for contemporary education?
  3. Compare and contrast the ideas of Froebel, Montessori, and Piaget on early childhood education. Would it be possible to integrate educational practices from all three educational pioneers in a contemporary elementary school?
  4. Proponents of Jane Addams’ philosophy of socialized education argue that it relates schools to social and technological change while critics contend it diverts schools from teaching academic skills and subjects. Address this disagreement.
  5. Do you agree with the realists’ argument that conceptual knowledge of subjects such as language, history, mathematics, science, literature, and art is needed to make rational choices or with the pragmatist contention that the most important decisions are made by solving problems? Explain your answer.
  6. Have American schools been influenced more by essentialism or by progressivism? Support your answer with examples and evidence.

Student Contributed Resource – Due In 7 Hours

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Assignment: Application: Student Contributed Resource

In this course, you explore and contribute readings to the dialogue about sustaining quality of life in the city. Each week, you read the assigned articles that provide a foundation for the learning on the topic. During the weeks with Discussions, you will also find articles on topics related to each Discussion.In the Discussions, you are required to use the article you find as a source for your response. As the course progresses, you and your colleagues build a bibliography. You may also draw upon the list of student contributed resources for the Final Project.This week, you complete the “Student Contributed Resource Worksheet” document, found in this week’s Resources area. This Assignment is designed to help you find articles or resources that both meet academic requirements and enrich the course dialogue.

By Day 7

Complete your “Student Contributed Resource Worksheet” document.

Student Contributed Resource Worksheet

Directions: Please type your answers in the boxes provided. If you need more space, the box will expand as you write—so, there is no need to worry about space. Do not write your answers in a separate document because your Instructor uses the Rubric after each question to grade that section. You may also use the Rubric as a guide to make sure you completed the question correctly.

Quality of Life in Cities: Perspectives

1. Find one article from the library or credible Internet site that focuses on quality of life in a specific city or in cities generally.

Note: You may use articles by the authors listed in the Learning Resources section but you may also include other authors.

Insert the requested information in the box below.
Author name:

Year and date of publication:

Name of the article (or web article or website):

Name of the publication (or website):

Volume and issue number (for magazine or journal articles):

URL (that is, the web address) of the website (if applicable):

 

Next, attempt to organize the information above into an APA-style reference. There are two examples in the following box, one for an article published in a magazine or journal and one for an article published on a website.

Insert APA reference below.
Example of an article published in a magazine or journal:

Kotkin, J. (2005). Cities: Places sacred, safe, and busy. The Next American City, (8), 19–22.

Example of an article published on a website:

Montgomery, C. (2013, November 1). The secrets of the world’s happiest cities. The Guardian. Retrieved from http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/01/secrets-worlds-happiest-cities-commute-property-prices

Enter your attempt at an APA style reference:

 

Finally, post this reference to the course blog.

Question #1 Rubric (for Instructor use only) Points
Did the student find one academically appropriate source? _____ / 17.5 points

Did the student provide all the requested details about the source? _____/ 17.5 points

Did the student attempt to put the reference to the source in APA format? _____/ 17.5 points

Did the student post the reference to the course blog? _____ / 17.5 points

Instructor Comments:

 

 70 Points

_____/70

2. Write an annotation in the box below. An annotation summarizes the article and its point of view. It can be thought of as the explanation for why the article relates to the topic or an Assignment. Your annotation for this article should be 3–4 sentences.

Insert your answer below.
 
Question #2 Rubric (for Instructor use only) Points
Did the student provide an explanation for why the article relates to the topic? _____/30 points

Instructor Comments:

 

 30 Points

_____/30
Worksheet Total Points 100 points
  _____/100

 

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What Is The Functional Role Of The ICT?

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The digital divide remains formidable in scaling information and communication technology (ICT)-enabled opportunities for effective leadership and development in countries lagging behind, (Ahmed, 2015).  Based on the case study, the authors reminded us that, the practice of e-Participation provides an avenue for adaptation, application, and utilization of ICT as a subset of e-Commerce, in the realm of e-Democracy and, it is a concept needed to bridge the existing digital gap within and across countries in a global context.

Q2: From the chapter, we learned that as the world moves at a faster and voluminous pace, there is need to acquire technology and the skill to use it, as is increasing at the rate beyond those societies that are unable to remedy their inadequacies.  However, the challenges to meet this pressure could be enormous, but not insurmountable, and the means to address such challenges are abundantly available in ICT-supported processes like e-Participation.  From this context, what is the functional role of the ICT?

Church Disunity And Schein

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Briefly investigate the stages associated with the theoretical models of organizational culture change (Ex. Lewin’s (1951) Force-Field Model, Schein’s Change Model (1992), etc.).

  • When considering the issues of disunity/unity within the church (Cleveland, 2013), based on the chosen theoretical model, where is American churches’ culture in the process of change?
  • What are the observed, researched factors pointing to the certain phase/stage of the theoretical model?

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