What is your Philosophy Why is Philosophy Important
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What is your Philosophy?
Why is Philosophy Important • How we deliver curriculum is developed around our prevailing thoughts and beliefs • Important to recognize the role our philosophy plays in determining our views
Prevailing Schools of Thought • • • Perennialism Essentialism Progressivism Reconstructionism Existentialism
Perennialism • Believes one should teach things that one deems to be of everlasting importance to all people everywhere • Believes that the most important topics develop a person. • Since details of fact change constantly, these cannot be the most important. Therefore, one should teach principles, not facts. • Since people are human, one should teach first about humans, not machines or techniques. • Since people are people first, and workers second if at all, one should teach liberal topics first, not vocational topics. • A particular strategy with modern perennialists is to teach scientific reasoning, not facts.
Essentialism • Believe there is a critical core of information and skills that an educated person must have • William Bagley, 1930 s in response to student centered education • Teacher is the expert in the essentialist classroom • Student role to listen and learn
Progressivism • Beliefs that education must be based on the principle that humans are social animals who learn best in real-life activities with other people • Claim to rely on the best available scientific theories of learning. • Most progressive educators believe that children learn as if they were scientists, following a process similar to John Dewey's model of learning: • Given this view of human nature, a progressivist teacher desires to provide not just reading and drill, but also real-world experiences and activities that center on the real life of the students. • A typical progressivist slogan is "Learn by Doing!"
Reconstructionism • Emphasizes social questions and a quest to create a better society and worldwide democracy. • Highlight social reform as the aim of education. • Theodore Brameld (1904 -1987) was the founder of social reconstructionism, in reaction against the realities of World War II. • See education as the means of preparing people for creating this new social order. • Curriculum focuses on student experience and taking social action on real problems, such as violence, hunger, international terrorism, inflation, and inequality.
Existentialism • Emphasizes the uniqueness and freedom of the individual person against the herd, the crowd, or the mass society. • Emphasizes individual responsibility, individual personality, individual existence, and individual freedom and choice. • Hold the belief that life’s most important questions are not accessible to reason or science. • The only certainty for existentialists is death. • In the existentialist world, each person is born, lives, chooses his or her course, and creates the meaning of his or her own existence.
To which do you Subscribe? • Which philosophy do you believe is the most beneficial for our society?
Quiz
Report Your Findings • What surprised you most? • Can teachers with competing philosophies work in the same grade/team/department? • What is the philosophy of NC? • What is the philosophy of your school?
Conclusion • Why is it important to clearly define our philosophy?
- Hey hey bye bye
- What is research philosophy and why is it important
- Why is philosophy important
- On guard defending your faith with reason and precision
- Why is it important to vary your sentences structures
- Why is it important to analyze your audience
- Importance of knowing your learning style
- Dont ask
- Newspaper article format
- Inverted pyramid in news writing
- Least important to most important
- Give us your hungry your tired your poor
- Why did aristocrats like the philosophy of legalism?