Philosophy and Philosophical Orientations of Education

This is an area of philosophy which asks about the nature of reality

• Axiology

• Ontology

• Metaphysics

• Cosmology

It is sometimes called ethics, but broader than ethics alone

• Epistemology

• Ontology

• Metaphysics

• Axiology

How we know, think, and learn or change.

• Cosmology

• Ontology

• Epistemology

• Phenomenology

A discipline of philosophy that looks at how individuals understand their own experiences.

• Phenomenology

• Metaphysics

• Ontology

• Axiology

Metaphysics focuses on questions of being and cosmology examines _____ ______

This philosophical orientation questions the possibility of a singular, unified entity called adult education. In this sense, it both embodies critical approaches to education and also negates them.

• Realism

• Postmodernism

• Existentialism

• Pragmatism

Contrary to common understanding, this philosophical orientation's approach to knowledge is based in the rational, in argument, and in discourse.

Hint: Socrates and Plato! :)

• Idealism

• Realism

• Existentialism

• Postmodernism

Progressivism and Social Reconstructionism are sometimes tied to this philosophical orientation.

• Postmodernism

• Idealism

• Realism

• Pragmatism

"If it can be observed, then it is part of an observable truth"

Which philosophical orientation is most clearly reflected in this statement?

• Idealism

• Pragmatism

• Realism

• Postmodernism

"Knowing and truth are contingent; that is, there is no one truth, but rather many"

Which philosophical orientation is most clearly reflected in this statement?

• Idealism

• Existentialism

• Realism

• Postmoderninsm