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7 Philosophies of Education
7 Philosophies of Education
Existentialism Jean Paul Sartre This school of philosophy deals Humanities The teaching-learning process
with the development of the Vocational Education in an existentialist classroom is
learner as a whole person and History self-paced and self-directed. It
not just the development of the Fine Arts encourages an open and honest
mind. They do this by helping Drama individual relationship between
the students understand and Creative Expression the learner and the teacher. The
appreciate themselves as unique Literature teachers use the values
Philosophy
individuals who accept clarification strategy.
complete responsibility for their
thoughts, feelings and actions
Behaviourism Ivan Pavlov, Edward The main purpose of the Psychology of Human Teachers under this school of
Thorndike, John Watson and behaviourist curriculum is to Behaviour philosophy use behaviourist
Burrhus Frederic Skinner develop a favourable learning Stimuli-Response method of teaching in which the
environment for the learners to Relationship teacher control physical
develop desirable behaviour in variables to get the desired
the society. responses from the learners.
Linguistic Philosophy Jurgen Habermas and Hans Linguistic educational Verbal Communication The experimental method is the
Georg Gadamer philosophy works toward the Nonverbal most popular teaching strategy
development of the learners’ Communication used by the teachers under this
communication skills from Paraverbal philosophy since it is the most
them to be able to express Communication effective way of teaching
themselves and their ideas. Foreign Language language and communication.
Constructivism Jean Piaget and Lev This philosophy of education Knowledge Evaluation A constructivist teacher
Vygotsky aims to develop learners to and Synthesis provides the learners adequate
become independent and Learning Process and data and information and
inherently motivated so that Skills encourage them to interact with
they can construct new ideas Research and this data to form their own
with the help of proper learning Experimentation hypothesis, predict the
skills. outcome, investigate, and
invent new ideas and to
research for further information.