Philosophers Flashcards
Educate the rational person
Perennialism
cultivate intellect
Perennialism
teachers assist students to think with reason (critical thinking)
perennialism
focus: classical subjects, literary analysis, curriculum is enduring
perennialism
use of great books (Bible, Koran, Classics) and liberal arts
perennialism
Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas
perennialism
to promote intellectual growth of learners to become competent
essentialism
teachers are sole authoritiees in the subject area
essentialism
essential skills or 3R, essential subjects
essentialism
back to basics, excellence in education, cultural literacy
essentialism
promote democratic social living
progressivism
William Bagloy
Essentialism
John Dewey
Progressivism
teacher leads for growth and development of lifelong learners
progressivism
education for change
Reconstructionism
interdisciplinary subjects, learner-centered, outcomes-based
progressivism
equal opportunities for all, contextualized curriculum, humanistic education
progressivism
teachers acts as agent of change and reforms
Reconstructionism
school and curricular reform, global education, collaboration and convergence, standards and competencies
Reconstructionism
to improve and reconstruct society
Reconstructionism
Theodore Brameld
Reconstructionism
He stated the curriculum development
Franklin Bobbit
present and future educational landscape
Reconstructionism
The Curriculum
Franklin Bobbit
Curriculum is a science that emphasizes students need
Frank Bobbit
Werret Charters
Curriculum prepares learners for adult life
Frank Bobbit
Objectives and activities should group together when tasks are clarified
Frank Bobbit
Objectives and activities should match
Werret Charters
Subject matter or content relates to objectives
Werret Charters
Curricula are purposeful activities which are child-centered
William Kilpartick
Curriculum is child development and growth
William Kilpartick
Teacher and student plan the activities
Willian Kilpartick
Curriculum develops social relationships and small group instructions
William Kilpartick
Curriculum should develop the whole child
Harold Rugg
Curriculum is child-centered
Harold Rugg
Curriculum should produce outcomes with the statement of objectives and related learning activities
Harold Rugg
He emphasized social studies and suggested that the teacher plans curriculum in advance
Harold Rugg
Curriculum is organized around social functions of themes. organized knowledge and learner’s interest
Hollis Caswell
Curriculum, instruction and learning are interrelated
Hollis Caswell
Curriculum is a set of experiences,
Hollis Caswell
Subject matter is developed around social functions and learners’ interests
Hollis Caswell
Curriculum is a science and extension of school’s philosophy
Ralph Tyler
Curriculum is always related to instruction
Ralph Tyler
It is based on students’ needs and interest
Ralph Tyler
Subject matter is organized in terms of knowledge, skills, and values
Ralph Tyler
The process emphasizes problem solving
Ralph Tyler
Curriculum aims to educate generalists and not specialists
Ralph Tyler
She contributed to the theoretical and pedagogical foundations of concepts development and critical thinking in social studies curriculum
Hilda Taba
She helped lay foundation for diverse student population
Hilda Taba
He described change as a cooperative endeavor
Peter Oliva
Teachers and curriculum specialist constitute the professional core of planners
Peter Oliva
Significant improvement is achieved through group activity
Peter Oliva
Father of the classical conditioning theory, S-R theory
Ivan Pavlov
The key to learning is early years of life is to train them what you want them to become.
Ivan Pavlov
S-R Theory is a foundation of learning practice called indoctrination.
Ivan Pavlov
He championed the connectionism theory.
Edward Thorndike
He proposed the three laws of learning
Edward Thorndike
three laws of learning
Law of readiness
Law of exercise
Law of effect
Specific stimulus has specific response.
Edward Thorndike
He proposed the hierarchical learning theory
Robert Gagne
Learning follows a hierarchy.
Robert Gagne
Behavior is based on prerequisite conditions.
Robert Gagne
He introduced tasking in the formulation of objectives.
Robert Gagne
Cognitive development has stages from birth to maturity.
Jean Piaget
Keys to Learning
Assimilation
Accommodation
Equilibration
stages from birth to maturity
Sensorimotor stage (0-2), preoperational stage
(2-7), concrete operations stage (7-11) and formal operations (11 - onwards).
incorporation of new experience
Assimilation
learning modification and adaptation
Accomodation
balance between previous and later learning
Equilibration
Cultural transmission and development stage.
Lev Vygotsky
Children could, as a result of their interaction with society, actually perform certain cognitive actions prior to arriving at developmental stage.
Lev Vygotsky
Learning precedes development.
Lev Vygotsky
Sociocultural development theory
Lev Vygotsky
Pedagogy creates learning processes that lead. to development.
Lev Vygotsky
The child is an active agent in his of her educational process.
Lev Vygotsky
multiple intelligences
Howard Gardner
Humans have several different ways of processing information and these ways are relatively independent of one another.
Howard Gardner
There are eight intelligences
linguistic, logico-mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily/kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic
8 intelligences
Howard Gardner
Emotion contains the power to affect action.
Emotional Quotient
Emotional Quotient
Daniel Goleman
Learning is explained in terms of “wholeness” of the problem.
Gestalt
Human beings do not respond to isolated stimuli but to an organization or pattern of stimuli.
Gestalt
Learning is complex and abstract.
Gestalt
Learners analyze the problem, discriminate between essential and nonessential data, and perceive relationships.
Gestalt
Learners will perceive something in relation to the whole. What/how they perceive is related to their previous experiences.
Gestalt
He advanced the Self-Actualization Theory.
Abraham Maslow
Classic theory of human needs
Abraham Maslow
A child whose basic needs are not met will not be interested in acquiring knowledge of the world.
Abraham Maslow
He put importance to human emotions, based on love and trust.
Abraham Maslow
Produce a healthy and happy learner who can accomplish, grow and actualize his or her human self.
Abraham Maslow
Nondirective and therapeutic learning
Carl Rogers
He established counselling procedures and methods for facilitating learning.
Carl Rogers
Children’s perceptions, which are highly individualistic, influence their learning and behaviour in class.
Carl Rogers
Curriculum is concerned with process, not product; personal needs, not subject matter, psychological meaning, not cognitive scores.
Carl Rogers
Schools and Society
Schools, Society, Knowledge
source of change
society
agents of change
schools
an agent of change
knowledge
Influence of society and social context in education
Emile Durkheim
Things that surround individuals can change, develop their behavior.
Emile Durkheim
Considered two fundamental elements which are schools and civil society
Emile Durkheim
Wrote the book Future Shock
Alvin Toffler
Believed that knowledge should prepare students for the future
Alvin Toffler
Suggested that in the future, parents might have the resources to teach prescribed curriculum from home as a result of technology, not in spite of it. (Home Schooling)
Alvin Toffler
Foresaw schools and students worked creatively, collaboratively, and independent of their age
Alvin Toffler
Education as a means of shaping the person and society through critical reflections and
“conscientization”
Paolo Freire
Emphasis on questioning problem posing and critical thinking
Paolo Freire
Teachers use questioning and problem posing approach to raise students’ consciousness
Paolo Freire
Major book: Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1968
Paolo Freire
Curriculum organized around needs of society and the students
John Goodlad
Reduce student conformity in classroom Constant need for school improvement
John Goodlad
Emphasis on active learning and critical thinking Involvement of students in planning curriculum content and instructional activities
John Goodlad
Need to align content with standards
John Goodlad
Major book: A Place Called Schools, 1984; What Are Schools For? 1989
John Goodlad
Broaden the conception of curriculum to enrich the practice
William Pinar
Understand the nature of the educational experience
William Pinar
Curriculum involves multiple discipline
William Pinar
Curriculum should be studied from a historical, racial, gendered, phenomenological, postmodern, theological and international perspectives.
William Pinar
Social Foundations
Alvin Toffler
Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)
Schools and Society
Humanistic Psychology
Gestalt
Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)
Carl Rogers (1902-1987)
Cognitive Information Processing Theory
Jean Piaget (1896-1980)
Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934)
Howard Gardner
Daniel Goleman
Association and Behaviorism
Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936)
Edward Thorndike (1874-1949)
Robert Gagne (1916-2002)
Curriculum Theories and Principles
Franklin Bobbit (1876-1956)
Werret Charter (1875-1952)
William Kilpartick (1875-1952)
Harold Rugg (1886-1960)
Peter Oliva (1992-2012)
Hilda Taba (1902-1967)
Ralph Tyler (1902-1994)
Hollis Caswell (1901-1989)