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1. Do you agree or disagree with critics who contend that
Freire has contributed to class conflict in schools by pitting the poor against
the rich? Defend your answer.
2. Do you support Spencer’s argument that education should
stimulate competition or Dewey’s view that it should encourage cooperation?
Defend your answer.

Explore Jane Addams’s Hull-House by visiting the Web site of
the Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois at
Chicago:www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/hull_ house.html. List the pros and cons of
establishing close links between schools and social agencies.

Visit a Montessori school and note the main features of the
educational environment. Do you find an emphasis on play, developmental
activities, individualized learning, socialization, the use of didactic
learning materials, the introduction to academic skills, and the use of
technology? How might Montessori react to your findings?

1. To explore connections between Piaget’s developmental
theory and constructivism, consult the following Web
site:http://www.piaget.org.
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Research Freire.You can begin by consulting
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htm. Conduct a critical dialogue, based
on Freire’s model, that examines the social, political, and economic conditions
of your current educational situation. How do these conditions influence
education?

What would you need to know about the history of American
education, especially Americanization, to better evaluate the viewpoints
expressed by Maria and Nichole? Note the difference in attitude and historical
perceptions of Maria Manuel and Nicole Knesek in the dialogue.

1. How is bilingual education a reaction against the
assimilationist policy of the past and linked to the contemporary issues of a
common culture versus multiculturalism?
2. What is your position on bilingual education? What facts
support your stance?

The European colonists in North America re-created
conventional European educational institutions based on social-class patterns.
Primary or vernacular schools for the lower socioeconomic strata of society
provided a basic curriculum of reading, writing, arithmetic, and religion.
Preparatory schools, such as the Latin grammar school and the colonial college,
reserved for upper-class boys and men, provided a classical curriculum to
prepare them for leadership roles in church, state, and society.

1. After the United States won its independence, the common
school movement led to the establishment of public elementary schools
throughout the country.
2. The emergence of the public high school in the nineteenth
century completed the American educational ladder that connected public
elementary schools to state colleges and universities.