Chapter 5 Educational Philosophy and Your Teaching

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Define Philosophy

• The set of beliefs and principles that guides professionals’ work in their chosen fields.

• “a field full of vague concepts” That cannot be useful to teaching.

• the desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed especially by the generous donation of money to good causes.

• The study of men named Phil

Define Educational Philosophy

• A systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language

• Buying pencils

• A set of beliefs and principles that guides our approach to teaching and our attempts to increase student learning

• provide instruction especially at a school

Which Major Educational Philosophy suggests that nature is constant and schools should teach content and topics that have withstood the test of time

Which Major Educational Philosophy emphasizes real-world problem solving and individual personal development

• Protractor

• Progressivism

• Real Life Education

• Montessori

A way to employ Progressivism in the classroom is ...

• to connect topics you teach to the real world

• to take your students to the library

• to play silent ball

• to become a gym teacher

The Educational Philosophy Essentialism suggests ...

• that we should only feed children bread

• that society and its institutions—particularly organized religion and political parties—corrupt the purity of the individual.

• that specific knowledge and skills exist that all people should possess

• that all students should have red pens

Educational regulations that align with Essentialism

• Free School Lunch

• Academic Standards

• PSATs

• Common Core State Standards Initiative

The Educational Philosophy Social Reconstructionism believes

• politics should be left outside the classroom

• schools, teachers, and students should take the lead in addressing social problems and improving society

• students should learn to reconstruct ancient Babylonian structures

• all students should have social media

Philosophers vital to Social Reconstructionism

• Socrates

  Plato

• Kierkegaard

  Kant

• Theodore Brameld

  Paulo Freire

• Fergie

  Beyonce