Agricultural Education 280

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Agricultural Education 280

• Session 5
• Events and Leaders in Education

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WebCT

• Review

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7. How is the history of education relevant to
extension educators, agricultural educators, and
agribusiness trainers?
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Learner Objectives

• Identify the historical roots of Western
  education.
• Discuss what education was like in Colonial
  America.
• Explain how American education changed after
  nationhood.
• Explain how American education changed after the
  Civil War.

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• 5. Explain how American education changed after
  World War II
• 6. Discuss the major contributions of leaders in
  American education
• 7. Discuss how is the history of education
  relevant to extension educators, agricultural
  educators, and agribusiness trainers.

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Jigsaw ACT

• ATI Events
• 1. Work in pairs on questions 1 to 5
• 2. Work together as a group
• 3. Present to the class
• 4. Instructor will assist if clarity is needed

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1. What events and people influenced the
development of Western education prior to 1700?

• Greece educators and philosophers
• Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
• Marcus Fabius Quintilian
• Jesus Christ Church Leaders
• Renaissance Reformation
• Johann Amos Comenius (senses)

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2. What was education like in colonial America ?

• Practical
• Home schools
• Dame schools
• Apprenticeships
• Hornbook NE Primer
• Religious
• Mass. School Law Old Deluder Satan Law

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3. What events and people influenced education in
America from 1700 to 1860?

• The Enlightenment
• Scientific Discovery
• Locke, Rosseau, Pestalozzi
• Pestalozzi
• Herbart
• Jefferson
• Froebel

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• Websters Spelling Book
• Settlement of Land policies
• U.S. Constitution
• 1st High School
• McGuffeys Reader
• Horace Mann Common School
• National Education Association

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4. What events and people influenced education in
America from 1860 to 1940?

• Montessori
• Progressivism
• Col. Parker John Dewey
• Williams James
• Committee of Ten
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Thorndike

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• Judd
• 1st Junior High School
• WWI scientific movement
• Kilpatrick
• Friction between scientific progressive

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5. What events and people influenced education in
America from 1940 to 2001?

• More electives, vocational ed expanded
• GI Bill of Rights
• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
• Sputnik
• National Defense Act
• Civil Rights Act
• Elementary Secondary Ed Act
• Title IX

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• PL 94-142 Ed for the Handicapped Act
• USDE gains cabinet status
• A Nation at Risk
• School reform
• SCANS report
• Educate America Act standards movement

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Jigsaw ACT

• COL - Leaders
• 1. Each group gets an article
• 2. Group reads and discusses
• 3. Group meets with another group with same
  article
• 4. One person from each group presents

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6. What contributions did the following leaders
make to American education ?

• Jesus Christ
• Plato
• Socrates
• Aristotle
• Johann Comenius
• Jean Rosseau

• Ben Franklin
• Johann Herbart
• Thomas Jefferson
• Friedrich Froebel
• Horace Mann
• Maria Montessori

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John Dewey

• Groups 1 7
• Contributions
• Nature and needs of learner
• Active experiencing
• Principle of experience
• Interest Effort
• Principle of scientific thought
• Developing good judgment

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Williams James

• Group 3 14
• Contributions
• Educational psychology
• Practical education
• Guiding discussions
• Learners right to choose
• Lively learner participation
• Stream of Consciousness
• Habit Formation

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W. W. Charters

• Group 4 11
• Contributions
• Applying the functional point of instruction
• Form follows function function structure
• Subject matter is to solve problems
• Curriculum construction
• Developing personality

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Edward Thorndike

• Group 8
• Contributions
• Scientific study of educational problems
• Simple and significant results of complex
  observations
• Stimulus-Response psychology
• Laws of Learning
• Exercise
• Effect
• Readiness
• Systematic approach of learning

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W. H. Kilpatrick

• Groups 6 12
• Contributions
• School of life, actual experiences
• Learners must be active
• Teachers who know child development
• Project Method
• Use of textbooks is limited
• Learning is never single

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Charles Judd

• Groups 9 13
• Contributions
• Enriched and diversified curriculum
• Undivided educational system
• Science of education
• Generalization
• Electives (e.g., agriculture classes)

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7. How is the history of education relevant to
extension educators, agricultural educators, and
agribusiness trainers?
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Events Leaders in Extension Education

• Session 6
• October 9, 2001
• Groups 3 10