Philosophers and Education

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You recently accepted a job offer to teach at an inner-city school. The demographics of the school population represents students traditionally classified as ethnic and cultural minorities and the majority of the students live in households that reflect a lower SES income status. In preparing for the beginning of the school and subsequent year, your search for effective teaching strategies and knowledge of social and cultural implications of teaching in an inner-city school includes and multiple peer-reviewed sites on the Internet

A.) Provide a description of the local public school and community context, student demographics, and teaching job of your inner-city assignment. What connections can you make between the historical setting of three philosophical approaches and your current educational experience (both as a teacher and as a student)? (2 pages)

B.) Critically analyze how the context and structure of public education in the inner city may influence your goal of maximizing your first-year teaching success. Examine your own values related to teaching, as well as implicit and explicit biases, and discuss their potential effect on student learning. (2 pages)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rousseau/

John Calvin- https://www.britannica.com/topic/education/The-new-scientism-and-rationalism

Horance Mann-https://www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/horace.html


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