Understanding Essentialism in Education
An overview of essentialism in education, focusing on teaching basic skills, progressing sequentially, and emphasizing core knowledge.
00:00:02 An overview of essentialism in education, focusing on teaching basic skills, progressing sequentially, and emphasizing core knowledge.
📚 Essentialism in education emphasizes teaching basic skills and core knowledge in subjects like reading, writing, math, science, history, foreign language, and technology.
🎓 Essentialist educators focus on transmitting progressively difficult topics and promoting students to the next level or grade.
🧠 The philosophy of essentialism stresses the importance of training the mind, focusing on the historical context of the material world and culture to provide a solid understanding of the present day.
00:01:04 The video discusses the history and impact of essentialism in education, highlighting key moments such as the launching of Sputnik and the release of the report 'A Nation at Risk'.
💡 Essentialism in education emphasizes sticking to a core curriculum.
🌍 The essentialism movement was revived by global competition mandates.
📄 The 'A Nation at Risk' report highlighted the lack of basic essentials in education.
00:02:08 This video discusses the concept of essentialism in education, exploring its history and impact on public schools in the United States.
📚 Gene Allen's book 'Change and a Nation Still at Risk' and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2005 promoted essentialism in education.
🏫 Essentialism is a common model in U.S public schools today, where students attend different classes in seven periods and teachers primarily deliver knowledge through lectures.
📝 In essentialist schools, students are expected to take notes during lectures and are provided with practice for further learning.
00:03:13 This video explains the essentialist philosophy of education, where students follow a set schedule and curriculum and are promoted based on assessments.
📚 Students engage in hands-on projects and assessments to demonstrate their learning.
🏫 School board approves a specific curriculum for each class, allowing teachers to decide how to teach it.
📈 Students are promoted to the next grade when they show sufficient competence.
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