EDU 120 Midterm Lecture question/answer
graded A+ 2024/2025
Industrial models of schools - ✔️✔️- schools reflect assembly lines of the Industrial
Revolution
- Senge
Industrial age assumptions of learning - ✔️✔️- 5 ways which learning occurs
- emerged from schools with beliefs following that of the industrial assembly line
1. children are deficient and schools should fix them (deficit perspective --> school can
make up for the innate)
2. Learning takes place in the head, not the body
3. Everyone learns, or should learn, in the same way
4. Learning takes place in the classroom, not in the world
5. There are smart kids and there are dumb kids
- Senge
Industrial age assumptions of schooling - ✔️✔️- 4 ways to manage and function
1. school is run by specialist who maintain control
2. knowledge is inherently fragmented
3. Schools communicate "the truth" (naive realism)
4. learning is primarily individualistic, & competition accelerates learning
- Senge
deficit perspective - ✔️✔️- with senge in industrial age assumptions of learning
- with post-secondary education readiness
Education equality - ✔️✔️- good sense, everyone should have an equally good education
- Brighouse
Labree's 3 goals of education - ✔️✔️1. Democratic equality (school prepares students to
be good citizens in democratic society)
2. Social Efficiency (school prepares individuals to contribute to societal economic
growth and well-being)
3. Social Mobility (school is a commodity in order to compete for and obtain higher-
socioeconomic status (ie higher income)
- Labree
Public good - ✔️✔️- service that everyone benefits from
- ie snuggie example, if you have it everyones warm
- ie public schools (everyone benefits; societal benefits by reduce in crime, however not
everyone supports public schools)
- Labree
graded A+ 2024/2025
Industrial models of schools - ✔️✔️- schools reflect assembly lines of the Industrial
Revolution
- Senge
Industrial age assumptions of learning - ✔️✔️- 5 ways which learning occurs
- emerged from schools with beliefs following that of the industrial assembly line
1. children are deficient and schools should fix them (deficit perspective --> school can
make up for the innate)
2. Learning takes place in the head, not the body
3. Everyone learns, or should learn, in the same way
4. Learning takes place in the classroom, not in the world
5. There are smart kids and there are dumb kids
- Senge
Industrial age assumptions of schooling - ✔️✔️- 4 ways to manage and function
1. school is run by specialist who maintain control
2. knowledge is inherently fragmented
3. Schools communicate "the truth" (naive realism)
4. learning is primarily individualistic, & competition accelerates learning
- Senge
deficit perspective - ✔️✔️- with senge in industrial age assumptions of learning
- with post-secondary education readiness
Education equality - ✔️✔️- good sense, everyone should have an equally good education
- Brighouse
Labree's 3 goals of education - ✔️✔️1. Democratic equality (school prepares students to
be good citizens in democratic society)
2. Social Efficiency (school prepares individuals to contribute to societal economic
growth and well-being)
3. Social Mobility (school is a commodity in order to compete for and obtain higher-
socioeconomic status (ie higher income)
- Labree
Public good - ✔️✔️- service that everyone benefits from
- ie snuggie example, if you have it everyones warm
- ie public schools (everyone benefits; societal benefits by reduce in crime, however not
everyone supports public schools)
- Labree
