Philosophical Foundation In Education Flashcards
• Learning by doing and by interacting with the environment
JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704): THE EMPIRICIST EDUCATION
• The inductive method
JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704): THE EMPIRICIST EDUCATION
• Questioned the long traditional view that knowledge came exclusively from literary sources
John Locke
• Opposed the “divine rights of kings” theory
JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704): THE EMPIRICIST EDUCATION
John Dewey opposed the?
• Opposed the “divine rights of kings” theory
• Political order should be based upon a contract between the people and the government.
JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704): THE EMPIRICIST EDUCATION
• Civic education is necessary
JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704): THE EMPIRICIST EDUCATION
• People should be educated to govern themselves intelligently and responsibly
JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704): THE EMPIRICIST EDUCATION
“LIKE PEOPLE, LIKE GOVERNMENT.”
JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704): THE EMPIRICIST EDUCATION
NOT ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE FROM THE GREAT BOOKS.
JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704): THE EMPIRICIST EDUCATION
PARTICIPATING ACTIVELY AND INTELLIGENTLY IN ESTABLISHING GOVERNMENT
JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704): THE EMPIRICIST EDUCATION
• Survival of the fittest
HERBERT SPENCER (1820 -1903): UTILITARIAN EDUCATION (X WHOLE-CHILD APPROACH)
• Social development is an evolutionary process
HERBERT SPENCER (1820 -1903): UTILITARIAN EDUCATION (X WHOLE-CHILD APPROACH)
• Industrialized society require vocational and professional education
HERBERT SPENCER (1820 -1903): UTILITARIAN EDUCATION (X WHOLE-CHILD APPROACH)
• Curriculum should emphasize the practical, utilitarian, and scientific subjects
HERBERT SPENCER (1820 -1903): UTILITARIAN EDUCATION (X WHOLE-CHILD APPROACH)
• Was not inclined to rote learning
HERBERT SPENCER (1820 -1903): UTILITARIAN EDUCATION (X WHOLE-CHILD APPROACH)
• Curriculum must be arranged according to their contribution to human survival and progress
HERBERT SPENCER (1820 -1903): UTILITARIAN EDUCATION (X WHOLE-CHILD APPROACH)
• Curricular priority for science and subjects that sustained human life and prosperity
HERBERT SPENCER (1820 -1903): UTILITARIAN EDUCATION (X WHOLE-CHILD APPROACH)
• Individual competition leads to social progress
HERBERT SPENCER (1820 -1903): UTILITARIAN EDUCATION (X WHOLE-CHILD APPROACH)
Social Darwinism
HERBERT SPENCER (1820 -1903): UTILITARIAN EDUCATION (X WHOLE-CHILD APPROACH)
• Education is a social process vis-à-vis school; vis-à-vis immature members of the group.
JOHN DEWEY (1859-1952): LEARNING THROUGH ΕΧΡΕRIENCE FUND OF KNOWLEDGE
• Children are socially active human beings
The school is a special environment established by members of society
JOHN DEWEY (1859-1952): LEARNING THROUGH ΕΧΡΕRIENCE FUND OF KNOWLEDGE
• Accumulated wisdom of cultural heritage has to be tested. If it served human purposes, it becomes part of a reconstructed experience.
JOHN DEWEY (1859-1952): LEARNING THROUGH ΕΧΡΕRIENCE FUND OF KNOWLEDGE
• The school is social, scientific, and democratic.
JOHN DEWEY (1859-1952): LEARNING THROUGH ΕΧΡΕRIENCE FUND OF KNOWLEDGE