What is meant by the term assimilationist education? What impact did this have on American education in the late 1800s and the first half of the 1900s?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Assimilationist education is characterized in Chapter 5 as the attempts of the misguided reformers to "civilize" Native Americans (and other ethnic minority groups) and to assimilate them into white (Anglo-Saxon) society by instilling in them "white" values. Various examples of assimilationist efforts can be mentioned.
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Locate your state's children's choices book award and read some of the current nominees or recent winners of the award. Evaluate their student appeal, literary quality, complexity, curricular value, and illustration quality.
What will be an ideal response?
Bandura's social cognitive theory added a third learning principle to classical and operant conditioning, which was that
A. reinforcement is more powerful in shaping behavior than punishment. B. only involuntary responses can be classically conditioned. C. shaping is an effective way to learn a new behavior. D. people also can learn through imitation of behaviors they observe.
What award did Bailey receive in 1995?
Go to the Biography Resource Center database. Click Biographical Facts Search under Other Searches. When the search form page opens, click on View Occupation Terms, click on S, and choose Social services administrator which appears in the Occupation List. From the Nationality search box, choose American. From the Gender search box, choose Male. From the Birth Year search box, click is after and type in 1950. Click on SEARCH. Click on Gary Bailey. Read the article and then answer the questions. What will be an ideal response?