Friday, June 26, 2020

PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION

PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION

● IDEALISM 👉 Plato (own ideas) nothing exist except in the mind of a man/ what we want the world to be

● REALISM 👉 Aristotle;Herbart; Comenius; Pestalozzi; Montessori; Hobbes; Bacon; Locke
▶ (experience) fully mastery of knowledge

● BEHAVIORISM 👉 always guided by standards/by procedure; purpose is to modify the behavior

● EXISTENTIALISM 👉 Kierkegaard; Sartre; "Man shapes his being as he lives"
▶Focuses on self/individual

● PRAGMATISM/EXPERIMENTALISM 👉William James; John Dewey - learn from experiences through interaction to the environment
▶Emphasizes the needs and interests of the children

● PERENNIALISM 👉 Robert Hutchins 
▶focuses on unchanging/universal truths

● ESSENTIALISM 👉 William Bagley - teaching the basic/essential knowledge
▶ Focuses on basic skills and knowledge

● PROGRESSIVISM 👉 Dewey/Pestalozzi (process of development)
▶focuses on the whole child and the cultivation of individuality

● CONSTRUCTIVISM👉Jean Piaget 
▶Focused on how humans make meaning in relation to the interaction b/w their experiences and their ideas. Nature of knowledge w/c represents an epistemological stance.

● SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTIONISM 👉 George Counts - recognized that education was the means of preparing people for creating his new social order
▶highlights social reform as the aim of education

➡ ACCULTURATION - learning other culture; the passing of customs, beliefs and tradition through interaction and reading.

➡ ENCULTURATION - the passing of group's custom, beliefs and traditions from one generation to the next generation

➡ Convergent questions - are those that typically have one correct answer.

➡ Divergent questions - also called open-ended questions are used to encourage many answers and generate greater participation of students. Higher order thinking skills; to think more creatively.

➡ 90 days - enrolled bills becomes a law
➡ 30 days - "lapse"

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