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This 5 page paper discusses educational models that have cropped up during the twentieth century and how they changed education. Constructivism, Progressivism, and the Inquiry method are each discussed. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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or lasting change, has emanated from the 1960s on, and these have been in the models of Constructivism, Progressivism, and the Inquiry method. Constructivists would prefer things or information over
social leaning. Progressivism on the other hand is a model that is viewed as a reaction to authoritarianism (Gutek, 1997). It held that "peaceful social innovation" would be a result
of education (Gutek, 1997, p. 294). Progressives focus on the individual child as the learner as opposed to putting an emphasis on the subject matter taught (Gutek, 1997). It both
encourages social reform and democracy (Gutek, 1997). The inquiry method, most closely associated with Neil Postman, focuses on the English language and became popular during the 1960s. First, in
focusing on constructivism, it should be said that scientists like Piaget suggest that people have to construct their understanding of things as they do not simply record or absorb information
given to them (Resnick & Hall, 1998). In other words, people do not absorb material like a sponge and store information. They are not computers. They take the information and
then construct a reality around it. In other words, they think. For many that is the purpose of education. Yet, under this model, there is the idea that knowledge underlies
the thinking. Rsenick & Hall (1998) explain: "In every field of thought, cognitive scientists found that knowledge is essential to thinking and to acquiring new knowledge-in other words, to learning.
So, for example, people who knew something about baseball learned much more new information by reading a story about baseball than did people who knew nothing at all about the
game. Fourth graders could not make sense of or remember a textbook chapter about the Boston tea party if they did not already know something about the colonists desire to
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