Name: JONALYN G.

CANDILAS Course: CPE

Instructor: JAY ANN P. CORONACION Subject: ED 108 – THE TEACHING PROFESSION

Deadline: August 21, 2022Self-Paced

LearningIMPORTANT NOTE: Please follow the
recommended time allowance for self-paced learning.

An Exercise to Determine Your Educational Philosophy

Bilbao, P., et.al. (2018)

Instruction: Find out to which philosophy you adhere. Use the information that you will get from this
activity in order to write your own Philosophy of Education.

To what extent does each statement apply to you? Rate yourself 4, if you agree with the statement
always, 3 if you agree but not always, 2 if you agree sometimes, and 1 if you don't agree at all.
STATEMENT 1 2 3 4
1 There is no substitute for concrete experience in learning. ⁄
2 The focus of education should be the ideas that are as ⁄
relevant todays as when they were first conceived.
3 Teachers must not force their students to learn the subject ⁄
matter if it does not interest them.
4 Schools must develop students’ capacity to reason by ⁄
stressing on the humanities.
5 In the classroom, students must be encouraged to interact with ⁄
one another to develop social virtues such as cooperation and
respect.
6 Students should read and analyze the Great Books, the ⁄
creative works of history’s finest thinkers and writers.
7 Teachers must help students expand their knowledge by ⁄
helping them apply their previous experiences in solving new
problems.
8 Our course of study should be general, not specialized; liberal, ⁄
not vocational; humanistic, not technical.
9 There is no universal, inborn human nature. We are born and ⁄
exist and then we ourselves freely determine our essence.
10 Human beings are shaped by their environment. ⁄
11 Schools should stress on the teaching of basic skills. ⁄
12 Change of environment can change a person. ⁄
13 Curriculum should emphasize on the traditional disciplines ⁄
such as math, natural science, history, grammar and literature.
14 Teacher cannot impose meaning; students make meaning of ⁄
what they are taught.
15 Schools should help individuals accept themselves as unique ⁄
individuals and accept responsibility for their thoughts,
feelings, and actions.
16 Learners produce knowledge based on their experiences. ⁄
17 For the learner to acquire the basic skills, he/she must go ⁄
 through the rigor and discipline of serious study.
18 The teacher and the school head must prescribe what is most ⁄
important for the students to learn.
19 The truth shines in an atmosphere of genuine dialogue. ⁄
20 A learner must be allowed to learn at his/her own pace. ⁄
21 The learner is not a blank slate but brings past experiences ⁄
and cultural factors to the learning situation.
22 The classroom is not a place where teachers pour knowledge ⁄
into empty minds of students.
23 The learner must be taught how to communicate his ideas and ⁄
feelings.
24 To understand the message from his/her students, the teacher ⁄
must listen not only to what his/her students are saying but
also to what they are not saying.
25 An individual is what he/she chooses to become not dictated ⁄
by his/her environment.

Interpreting your Scores: If you have 2 answers of 2/4 in numbers:

1,3,5,7_________________ you are more of progressivist

2,4,6,8_________________ you are more of a perennialist
9,15,20,25______________ you are more of an existentialist
10,12___________________ you are more of a behaviorist
11,13,17,18_____________ you are more of an essentialist
14,16,21,22_____________ you are more of a constructivist
19,23,24________________ you are more of a linguistic philosopher

If you have 2 scores of 4 in several of the 7 clusters, you have an eclectic philosophy which means you
put the philosophies together. If your scores are less than 4, this means that you are not very definite in
your philosophy. Or if your scores are less than 3 in most of the items, this means your philosophy is
quite vague.

Briefly describe below the results based on your scores.

Based on my scores, it shows that my philosophy of education is eclectic, which

combines all good ideas and principles from various philosophies. Eclecticism is a conceptual
approach that does not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws
upon multiple theories, styles, or ideas to gain complementary insights into a subject, or applies
different theories in particular cases.