CHILD-CENTERED EDUCATION

Child-Centered Education

DPS; dissertation Problem Statement on standardized testing

Problem Statement

The main purpose of this research is to find out the impact on minority students, children from low income families, second language learners and children whose parents are not educated. It is important to identify main factors behind these developments. Due to all these issues, graduation rates have decreased. The dropout rate of the school students have even increased. So, it is quite clear that there is a need to investigate these problems in accordance to Massachusetts framework and the need for child-centered education also needs to be addressed in a proper manner. (Bloch, 1987)

Significance of the Problem Statement

Progressive education in this sense is the educational phase of American progressivism that carries a lot of value. Not all progressive educational thoughts and action were associated with schooling, and much of the impetus for efforts at educational change came from concerns that were political, social, cultural, and communal—not strictly speaking pedagogical— in character. Liberal progressive Jane Addams's Hull House is probably the best example of an institution for adults and children created to improve social and economic conditions through the creation of the educational community. Not all educational reformers of the era shared Addams's liberalism. Conservative progressives sought not social justice (through equality and economic opportunity), but social order, an order that would ensure a worthy American community without altering the dominance of the economic status quo. Still, the quality of an American community was a common focus. In a time when laissez-faire individualism dominated the economic scene and when the fact of cultural diversity required acknowledgment of actual and potential conflict, schooling presented itself as a powerful tool to combat social decay. So, all these facts demand a solution for the problem that has been presented. (Cannella, 1997)

Research Questions

Q1- What are going to be the solutions to solve the problems associated with Child-centered education?

Q2- What strategies will be adopted by the educational institutes in meeting the need of children?

Q3- What will be the role of parents to assist their children in meeting the educational needs?

Q4- How much efforts will be required by various institutes and authors in satisfying the educational needs of children?

Literature Review

Both strains of the progressive temper spread to the newly developed and rapidly expanding system of public schools throughout the United States. Educators were responding to schools whose enrolments were growing exponentially, to educational institutions that seemed modeled after dehumanizing factories, to obvious conditions of educational inequity, and to a school curriculum that was perceived as academically exclusive. If individual students had diverse talents, testing could identify aptitudes and then differentiated curricula, enacted by child-centered teachers, would develop them. All of this would occur in scientifically managed schools whose graduates could, as some desire, “build a new social order.” Clearly, this educational worldview was not without its tensions. The first and best-known strain is the understanding that means and ends of education must derive from the child's needs. This was a reaction to what was perceived ...