This document discusses the philosophical perspectives of education. It begins by defining philosophy as the study of fundamental truths about knowledge, reality, and existence. It then explains that educational philosophy involves applying formal philosophy to the field of education. Educational philosophy seeks to build theories about human nature, society, and the world. It also determines educational goals and the correct ways to achieve those goals. The document also discusses how metaphysics and epistemology influence methods of teaching and learning by considering questions about the nature of reality and what can be known.
This document discusses the philosophical perspectives of education. It begins by defining philosophy as the study of fundamental truths about knowledge, reality, and existence. It then explains that educational philosophy involves applying formal philosophy to the field of education. Educational philosophy seeks to build theories about human nature, society, and the world. It also determines educational goals and the correct ways to achieve those goals. The document also discusses how metaphysics and epistemology influence methods of teaching and learning by considering questions about the nature of reality and what can be known.
This document discusses the philosophical perspectives of education. It begins by defining philosophy as the study of fundamental truths about knowledge, reality, and existence. It then explains that educational philosophy involves applying formal philosophy to the field of education. Educational philosophy seeks to build theories about human nature, society, and the world. It also determines educational goals and the correct ways to achieve those goals. The document also discusses how metaphysics and epistemology influence methods of teaching and learning by considering questions about the nature of reality and what can be known.
This document discusses the philosophical perspectives of education. It begins by defining philosophy as the study of fundamental truths about knowledge, reality, and existence. It then explains that educational philosophy involves applying formal philosophy to the field of education. Educational philosophy seeks to build theories about human nature, society, and the world. It also determines educational goals and the correct ways to achieve those goals. The document also discusses how metaphysics and epistemology influence methods of teaching and learning by considering questions about the nature of reality and what can be known.
Philosophy is the study of fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline. the term "philosophy" means, "love of wisdom." In a broad sense, philosophy is an activity people undertake when they seek to understand fundamental truths about themselves, the world in which they live, and their relationships to the world and to each other. Every person has a philosophy even though he does not realize this. This is more so when we conceive philosophy in a general sense as a person's sum of his/her fundamental beliefs and convictions." Moreover, teachers and students implicitly ask philosophical questions such as, "Why am teaching? What is teaching at its best? And student asks, "Why am I studying this subject? Why am I going to school for anyway?" On the other side of the coin, people have some ideas concerning physical objects, man, the meaning of life, nature, death, God, right and wrong. Of course, these ideas are acquired in varied ways -through family friends, individuals and groups or they might be as a result of some thinking, conventions or emotional bias. Philosophical Foundations: Education is the result of civilization , it is continuously developing based on the ideas and goals of philosophy and outlook In life so it becomes institutionalized idea of society. The role of educational philosophy according to experts Brauner and Burn argue that education and philosophy cannot be separated, because the goals of education are the same as the goals of philosophy. Wisdom and the path taken by philosophy are the same as those taken by education. Kupatrick argues that philosophizing and educating is thinking and considering values and ideals that are better, while educating is an effort to realize these values and ideals in human life and personality. Educational Philosophy is the branch of applied or practical philosophy concerned with the nature and aims of education and the philosophical problems arising from educational theory and practice. Educational Philosophy, then involves among other things the application of formal philosophy, to the field of education. Like general philosophy, educational philosophy is speculative, prescriptive and analytic. Educational philosophy is said to be speculative because it seeks to build theories of human nature, the nature of society, the nature of the world, which is very useful in interpreting data as a result of different scientific research. Educational philosophy is said to be prescriptive if the philosophy of education determines the goals that must be followed and achieved, and determines the right and correct ways to be used in achieving these goals. Because it explicitly determines the educational goals to be achieved. It is analytic, if the philosophy of education explains speculative and prescriptive statements and their consistency with other ideas. The analysts test the logic of our concepts and their inadequacy of the fact they seek to explain. Those who study philosophy are perpetually engaged in asking, answering, and arguing for their answers to life’s most basic questions. To make such a pursuit more systematic academic philosophy is traditionally divided into major areas of study. Metaphysics (Ontology) Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that considers the physical universe and the nature of ultimate reality. It asks questions like, What is real? What is the origin of the world? What is beyond the stars? Metaphysics asks, what is reality and how it differ from mere appearance ? What is reality and what are the standards or criteria for what count as REAL? The term “epistemology” comes from the Greek words “episteme” and “logos”. “Episteme” can be translated as “knowledge” or “understanding” while “logos” means argument” or “reason”. How we learn and what we can know? Epistemology which deals with knowledge and knowing, influences methods of teaching and learning. It raises such questions as on what do we base our knowledge of the world and our understanding of the truth?