...Shawn Ray EDU-210 October 3rd, 2015 Tara Armstead Movers and Shakers in Education From 470 to 399 B.C. Socrates lived a life of questions. Every day he questioned people and engaged them in philosophical conversation. This earned him both many student followers and many enemies who eventually had him condemned to death. "To all the philosophers that came after him, Socrates not only left the example of his life but also a new sort of inquiry (that is, social inquiry) and a new way of pursuing that inquiry, namely through the use of the Socratic method of question and answer." (Satris, 2015). Many different schools arose after Socrates death and claimed that they followed his examples, which is one reason why Socrates remains a giant in philosophy today. The Socratic Method can be used by those who are less wise than Socrates ever was himself, thus it could be said that Socrates had a mission that proved successful on the direction of philosophy which has had an effect that can never be undone. This ultimately has an effect on how philosophy is taught and how philosophers think in our present day lives and educational careers. The common school movement began to take place in the 1830's where a more state sponsored compulsory education for the masses set the foundation for what eventually becomes the educational system we have now in our everyday lives. There were schools for the poor, pauper...
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...Movers and Shakers in Education In today’s education system there have been many individuals and acts that have helped develop, advance, and reform the education system to what it is today. The American education system has come a long way from the one room school house to parents having a choice to whom or where they send their child to school. A few of the influential people or acts are Horace Mann, John Dewey, Maria Montessori, and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. [pic] Horace Mann was an education reformist. He was a politician from Massachusetts that served in the state House of Representatives and Senate. In 1937, he served as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education. Mann is credited with being the “Father of the Common School Movement” (Good, 2008). Most states have adopted the version of the school system that Massachusetts had especially for the normal school to train educators. Horace Mann while he was Secretary of the Board of Education in Massachusetts he traveled to every school in the state. In 1838, Mann created the Common School Journal and it targeted public schools and its problems. He had “six main principles (a) the public schools and its problems, (b) education should be paid for, controlled, and sustained by the public, (c) education will be best provided in schools that embrace a variety of backgrounds, (d) education is non-sectarian, (e) education must be taught by the spirit, methods, and discipline...
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...Movers and Shakers in Education Julia Ann Bonner Grand Canyon University Philosophical and Social Issues in Education EDU-576 Professor George McGee August 08, 2012 Movers and Shakers in Education The purpose of this paper is to review and acknowledge the efforts and contributions of four significant people in history who helped to shape the American educational system. Though the four people discussed in this paper are certainly not the only ones who left a permanent mark upon the history of our American educational system we have today, their efforts and philosophies laid the foundation upon which our educational system today was built. Horace Mann Horace Mann is credited with creating the first state board of education in 1837, whereby schools were managed by a state system. He was a leader in the Common School Movement and believed that teaching standards were in great need of improvement and that teachers should be paid better. He brought a great deal of focus onto current school conditions and prompted discussions on ways to improve them. Because of him, school conditions were improved and better equipped. Mr. Mann was fundamental in helping to instigate teacher training institutions (known as normal schools) and considerably successful in raising the standards of not just schools, but colleges as well. He has been referred to as “The Father of American Education”, (gcumedia.com, 2012). His philosophy was that...
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...Movers And Shakers In Education There are individuals and happenings both in the near and far past that have molded the current tutoring system. The arrangement has had conversions in an endeavor towards the finest condition. The individuals made imperative steps in this effort. The events had both unwanted and desirable consequences on education. To have an enhanced perspective on the arrangement, one has to assess the milestones that have in wholesome totaled up to the current outlook of the education scheme. This essay will describe some of the undertakings and individuals who instigated the milestones that have had a noteworthy bearing on US education system. The Meriam Report The report was emanated in 1928, and it gave insight into the devastating existence circumstances of Natives during that period. Most importantly the educational challenges facing the group were addressed, and it was starting point for the matters related to learning for the community to be prioritized (Webb et al., 2010). Besides schooling, the said report also gathered information on other aspects of the health of the Indians, family and community life, legal issues, missionary activities among Indians and the economic facet. It gave insight into all aspects of their life, and it’s the reports’ recommendations that instigated educational transformations for them as well as other beneficial policies for the community. The effect therefore of the report was the furtherance of educational contexts...
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...Samantha Browning EDU-210 Instr. Gammill 10 January 2013 Movers and Shakers in Education There have been many people and events that have shaped our education system in America. Some have had more impact than others. John Dewey, A Nation at Risk, No Child Left Behind and The Common Core State Standard Initiative. These people and events have had a significant impact on the evolution of American Education. John Dewey helped to form that classroom and its settings. He taught that education is a social and interactive process. He also said that social reform should take place in a social institution, which a school is considered a social institution, therefore a school is not only a place to gain knowledge but to also gain life skills. Dewey also made a point to explain that the knowledge a student will gain depends upon that student as well as the teacher. The teacher should be able to relay information to a student in a way that will help them realize the connection between the information and their experiences that will allow the student to retain the information. Teachers should be a guide for the student. The most famous line of the widely publicized report declared that "the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people" (U.S. Department of Education, 1983). A Nation at Risk is a report that was released by Terrel H. Bell. This report showed that the majority...
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...Ebony Williams EDU-210 January 18, 2015 Thomas Christner Movers and Shakers in Education What is Education? Why is it so important to our world? When thinking about how far we have come in education reform, it is also important to reflect on how it all started. Education is a form of learning that usually takes place in a school institution where one who is experienced and has obtained a degree in Education teaches to his/ her students. Education develops one’s intellect, knowledge, and beliefs in which prepares us for the real world upon our completion of high school. Under any circumstance where one’s thoughts and feelings are consumed, that could be considered an educational and learning experience as well. Education has evolved so much over time, and is providing our kids with the tools to help them to be successful individuals. The concept of Education goes back farther than most of us could ever imagine. School has been formatted into four stages which is Elementary, Middle School, High School, and College. In this paper, I will discuss the four people and events that had a great affect on the evolution of American education. Born in 470 BC in Athens, Greece, Socrates was a Greek philosopher who had a great influence on ancient and modern philosophy. Socrates believed that philosophy should achieve practical results for the greater well being of society. Little was known about his life in which what was, was told through the dialogue between his students...
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...Movers and Shakers in Education Anna Santana GCU: EDU 576 April 7, 2014 Education has been a concept of the most rudimentary from far back to times we cannot even comprehend to our more modern idea of education. Every aspect of American education was founded or molded by another country’s education system or some influential person’s philosophy. Along those paths, people, ideas, concepts, etc. have been more influential than most. Many United States citizens do not know the impact of the Kalamazoo case. United States citizens know some of the taxes they pay to the various entities (local, city, district, state, etc.) help to fund their local schools, from elementary schools to public universities. What they do not know is this case not only allowed for taxes to fund public schooling, it started a whole revolution of change in young children’s education. (Webb, 2013) Not only did the Kalamazoo case allow for more public funding, the case set the precedent for mandatory attendance for school aged children. This allowed the precedence for child labor laws. Because of this increase in students attending school, the literacy rate increased, but still varied by region, especially amongst those students who were non-white. As “[b]lacks had the highest illiteracy rate: 30.4% in 1910.” (Webb, 2013) In 1954, the U.S. Supreme court heard one of the most influential cases. This case would impact the future of not only the civil right movement, but also, the equal...
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...Movers and Shakers in Education Lee R. Whittlesey Grand Canyon University Movers and Shakers in Education Educating our children has been around for many years. In the middle of the seventeenth century, after the pilgrims arrived in the New Country, the first school where established. Since that time there have been many people and movements that have helped improve or made great contributions to the way education is today. Some of the great leaders and movements that have given growth in education have been Horace Mann, John Dewey, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and the Nation at Risk Report. Horace Mann Often called the “Father of the Common School”, Horace Mann (1796-1859) began as a lawyer and legislator. In 1837 Mann was elected as the Secretary to the newly-created Massachusetts Board of Education. While in the position “He spearheaded the Common School Movement, ensuring that every child could receive a basic education funded by local taxes” (Horace Mann, n.d.). He insured that schools could provide all white children, no matter their social class, a free education. With his reform, each school would be systematized by grade levels and have standardized curriculum (Horace Mann Biography, n.d.). Within the next few years’ other states took his lead and implemented universal schooling. Mann was a significant part in developing teacher training in schools and one of the earliest efforts to professionalize teachers in our schools. Even though...
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...Movers and Shakers in America Priscilla Sanchez Grand Canyon University: EDU-576 3/26/14 Movers and Shakers in America From the virtual timeline I chose the following four people or events that have molded our educational system in America. The first individual I will describe is John Dewey: John Dewey had the most impactful influence to the growth of enlightening discerning in the twentieth century. Dewey's theoretical practicality, concern with collaboration, experience, reflection as well as interest in the community and democracy, were conveyed mutually to form an exceedingly evocative educational system. He believed that education should engross with and enlarge experience with informal education practice. He also believed in authentic education and stated that there was but one way that a child can become mindful of his social custom by empowering him to perform those essential kinds of activities which make civilization what it is. To add, he believed that schools should offer children with that base so as a result they would make significant influences to the society. Subsequently, they will have the capacity to use their mind as a prevailing instrument to help themselves and the civilization in which they reside in. Dewey’s perspective was that an old-fashioned education is to guide the youngster to play a submissive, approachable part in the instructive development. In fact all students are distinctive, full of impulsiveness and ideas. Their thoughts...
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...Browning EDU 210 November 25, 2012 Heather Tetmyer Movers and Shakers in Education In the next few paragraphs I will discuss the Common School Movement, Brown v. Board of Education, No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), and Common Core State Standards Initiative. I will give a brief summary of each event and how they each impacted the history of education. [pic] The Reformers of the Common School Movement vision was that of schools being the cornerstones of the community. The schools were to be free and opened to everyone. They were to be the place where every student could come together on equal terms, where the high achiever and the low achiever could learn in the same class, use the same text books, and be taught by the same teachers. The common school would have a relationship with the community and its surroundings. They would be controlled, funded, and maintained by the people of the community who took interest and pride in their progress and accomplishments. Public schools today are controlled by the local government and the Federal government and not by the communities in which they are located. Standardized testing and the curriculum in public schools today are controlled by the state and how well a school performs in those areas are determined by the federal government. Local control is a thing of the pass and so is the Common School Movement (Baines & Foster, 2006). [pic] Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was one of the main events at the beginning...
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...Mandi Leon Edu 210 July 15, 2013 Kimberly Werking Movers and Shakers in Education There comes a time in a teachers’ life where we always ask why. Why do we teach, why do we have to go through all of this training? Through all the years from the beginning of Plato to the current year, there have been many events that in combination define who we are and why we do what we do. In the beginning when we are kids we sit in a room looking at a person we get to know as teacher. Running through most teachers’ minds is that “students learn from each other as well as from their instructors (Childs, Broad, Gallagher-Mackey, Sher, Escayg, Mcgrath 2011).” As young people we do not realize how much education and time they must go through just to be at the front of that room. We do not realize that every single teacher must have not one but two degrees and on top of that they must have “at least forty days of supervised practice teaching (Childs, Broad, Gallagher-Mackay, Sher, Escayg, McGrath, 2011).” Teachers have a goal to work with a very diverse melting pot of students. In the late 1800’s it was acknowledged that getting the degree at the secondary school was getting expensive. It was brought to the attention of the Supreme Court to tax the supporting funds for the secondary education because of Kalamazoo College. This college was making claims that a very large percentage of the graduated student body studied out if the country. During this time Kalamazoo College would get...
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...Victor Bello 6/26/12 Psychology Dr. Kinslow MUSIC PRODUCTION AND CREATIVE THINKING “Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.” These words of wisdom come from the great philosopher Plato and I have taken them to heart along my musical journey. I’ve known for a long time that I would find my calling in a career in the music industry. It was around the age of 12 that I really how much I really loved music and wanted to do this for the rest of my life. My journey into music began with me teaching myself to play the drums, even though I had taken guitar and violin lessons in the past this was the first instrument I learned on my own and the beginning of my journey to become a music producer. I have realized that many of the concepts in psychology can be applied successfully to the music industry and ultimately further me in my career as a music producer. As I have been studying psychology, there are four major concepts that have stuck out to me as the most crucial things I needed to survive in the music industry. The first was emotional intelligence, also known as EQ, this is a crucial factor to me because I believe that to be a very good music producer you need to understand how other people’s emotions work. This is really important because music is all about emotion and expression, such things as a change in tempo and scale can make a happy song sound more depressing and slow. For one to produce music...
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...Kevin Penn American Intercontinental University Unit 2 Individual Project 2 HUMA215-1302B-18 Topics in Cultural Studies Kelly Dormady June 29, 2013 Abstract This paper will explore the decentering of non-western culture by the Europeans as well as within the African nations. It well look at the conditions in the African nation were in before the decentering of these nations i.e. religion, traditions, and overall culture. Also, this paper will give examples of what the impact of decentering of the African culture by Europeans has had on the continent up to and including present day. In the late 19th and early 20th century the military, communication, naval might and technology began strengthening in the western world. None of the non-Western cultures wanted to assimilate to these Western cultures because of their own values and own way of thinking. The western cultures main focus was not so much the re-centering of a civilization; but by placing many fundamental challenges to their cultural identities it decentered their culture. (Sayre, 2013,) The Europeans were determined to impose their will on these smaller and weaker nations claim them and incorporate them as a part of their own new territories. These non-Western cultures were not ready for a decentering of their own culture which ultimately would have these cultures losing their identities. Yet we see where the western cultures were continually gaining strength over other cultures and they began...
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...As women we are continually being encouraged to pursue positions of power, to work jobs that require long hours, and to have unwavering commitment and dedication. Yet, at the same time, like stated in the quote above, we are told to find jobs that will allow for flexible schedules because they are more practical and the only way we will be able to maintain a work-family balance. Positions of power, like the aforementioned presidency, do not have the option of a flexible schedule, so should we still pursue them or should we continue to let the men of the world continue to dominate the corporate and political worlds? We need to recognize what we, the up and coming movers and shakers of the world, are capable of and stop listening to people who put stipulations on our future...
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...Early in the book, Jim Barton gets a valuable piece of advice: "You've got to know what you don't know." Why is it so important for CIOs to recognize their own shortcomings? Nolan: Good general managers know what they don't know. They build skills to create an environment around them--including people they trust, outside sources, self-education--to ensure they don't make huge mistakes by not appreciating aspects of other functional areas. This is truly a unique management capability. Just as a CEO can come from a number of functional backgrounds, in IT, the general management skills are critically important, but so is the ability to understand what's unique to IT. Whoever is in that position needs to do [his or her] homework, and Jim Barton is exemplary in accomplishing that requirement. Austin: At one point in the book, Barton's predecessor, Bill Davies, lectures him on knowing everything before he goes to see the CEO. Davies has a different set of inclinations. He's not particularly interested in having a conversation with the CEO. There's that notion out there about what it takes to be a manager--that you're somebody who brings solutions, not questions. That's outmoded. It's part of knowing what you don't know. If you're a leader and you don't want others to know what you don't know, you're going to dig yourself a hole. Nolan: When I was running a consulting firm [Nolan Norton & Co.], we would provide the IT background and training for really smart MBAs and others...
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