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Philosophy
Nature of learner Role of teacher Curriculum what is real, true, of value Purpose of schooling
Educational Philosophy
Concerns mainly the branch of Metaphysics, which seeks to determine the nature of ultimate reality
Metaphysical Philosophy
Attempts to establish coherence throughout the whole domain of experience
Pragmatism/Progressivism
In Educational Philosophy
Pragmatism
The only philosophy developed in America Emphasized testing ideas by acting on them Rejected universal and eternal truths Argued that philosophy should deal with real human problems rather than metaphysical speculation
Pragmatism in education
Progressivism Experimentalism Liberal Progressivism
Pragmatism
Taught that theory and practice, and thus, thinking and doing, should be united Proposed that the scientific method should be used to solve human problems Believed in a democratic society Believed that change is the essence of reality
Progressivism
6 Major Assertions:
Perennialism
Classical Realism in Educational Philosophy
Perennialism
Allegiance to absolute principles Permanence is more real than change and more desirable as an ideal Stability is the most important educational value.
Perennialism
Six basic principles
6. Curriculum should be the great works of literature, philosophy, history & science
The message of the past is never dated
Essentialism
An early 20th century educational reform movement
Essentialism
Four basic principles
1. Learning, of its very nature, involves hard work and often unwilling application
Discipline is essential to learning
Existentialism
Lived reality informed by passion
Existentialist Beliefs
In itself freedom is neither goal nor an ideal. It is the potential for action
People can change (learn) because they can always act differently