PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION

UTILITARIANISM
 Moral action is one that helps the greatest number of peole.
HEDONISM
 Pursuit of pleasure
 Sensual self indulgence
 Pleasure is the highest good
PROGRESSIVISM
 Student’s needs and interests
 Change and growth
 Learning by doing
PRAGMATISM
 Practical
 Practice and drill
 Concerned with result rather than principles
RATIONALISM
 Knowledge is based on reason or logic
 Math is the paradigm of knowledge
PERENNIALISM
 Perennial
 Unchanging truth
 Ageless
 Eternal
 Universal truths
 Classic, profound thoughts, works
CONSTRUCTIVISM
 Construct reality based on own experience
 Prior knowledge and experience
 Constructs own meaning
EXISTENTIALISM
 One’s own essence
 Unique individuals
 Complete responsibility of own thought, feelings and actions
 Freedom
 Choices
 Man’s free will and autonomy
REALISM
 Real, reality
 Brings students’ ideas into reality
 Tangible
EMPIRICISM
 Individuals have no innate knowledge
 Experience is the source of knowledge
EPICUREANISM
 Mental pleasure more than physical
 Freedom from anxiety and mental pain
BEHAVIORISM
 Human being is entirely shaped by the environment
ESSENTIALISM
 Back to basic
 3 R’s (reading, writing, rithmetic)
 Core, fundamental
 Essential
NATURALISM
 Ultimate reality is material world
 Scientific point of view
 Man as a social animal
IDEALISM
 Ideas
 Ideals
 Values
 Religion
 Spirituality