PhiloEd Flashcards
Week 2
Involves the study of patterns and methodologies of rules of inference
Logic
Asks questions about the nature of being
Metaphysics
Asks questions about how we know things
Epistemology
Involves reflections on the nature of beauty
Aesthetics
When something is valued because of what you can do with it
Instrumental
Love of wisdom
Philosophy
When something is valued for its own sake
Intrinsic
Asks questions about what is right or wrong or good or bad
Ethics
The basing of knowledge on experience and evidence
Empiricism
Comes from the Greek work schole, which means leisure
School
Comes from the Latin word educere, which means bringing out
Education
Stress the child’s development from within
Progressivists
Teacher-centred approaches
Essentialism and Perennialism
Student-centred approaches
Progressivism, Social Reconstructionism, and Existentialism
Students don’t just receive knowledge passively; they actively work to integrate new information into their current understandings.
Constructivism
The students have choices concerning what to learn and the instructional strategies actively involve students in their own learning
Student-centred
The teacher is prominent in the classroom, determining, and being the center of curricula and instructional strategies.
Teacher-centred
The teacher draws students’ inner reasoning out using probing questions
Socratic discussions
Rules, concepts, and theories are taught first, often explicitly, followed by examples and activities to support learning.
Deductive teaching:
A philosophy of education based on the belief that there is a changeless core curriculum that everyone should know.
Perennialism
A philosophy of education that focuses on the individual’s search for meaning.
Existentialism
A philosophy of education based on the belief that there is a core curriculum that is responsive the times and that everyone should know.
Essentialism
A philosophy of education that focuses on a curriculum of interest to students and experiential learning.
Progressivism
A philosophy of education that endorses a curriculum that benefits society by promoting equity.
Social reconstructionism
The only time my education was interrupted was while I was in school
Winston Churchill
Never interrupt a concentrating child
Maria Montessori
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education
Mark Twain
My pupil will hurt himself oftener than yours, but he will always be merry; your pupils may receive fewer injuries, but they are always thwarted, constrained, and sad.”
JJ Rousseau
Bring not up your children in learning by compulsion and fear but by playing and pleasure.
Roger Ascham
Trivium
Rhetoric, logic, grammar
Quadrivium
Music, geometry, arithmetic, astronomy
