Sunday, April 29, 2012

“Be all that you can be



The philosophy of education seeks to study the process and discipline of education in order to understand how it works, improve its methods and perfect its applications in society. The philosophy of education ultimately seeks to improve education and its systems and methods for the betterment of humanity. Ideally, it informs and raises the quality of curriculum, teaching methods and the overall educational experience.
I believe that society would be holistic, if children at a tender age would be raised with a system of education that natures their intellectual capabilities with: facts, physical discipline, music, art and skills ,as what Plato argued in his educational philosophy .So the aim of teaching is to approach a goal that achieved by giving the students knowledge at a reasonable time. This goal is to improve and enhance social and communal life and that people should live according to their ideals.
The education can be achieved by merging all these thoughts by knowing when and how to use each method. These are some aspects:
The experimentalist educator: believes that learners need to identify and solve relevant problems in a changing society.
Realists: advocate using methods of science to obtain precise information involving the world as it truly is.
Existentialists: emphasize the importance of the individual making subjective moral commitments within an irrational world.
Idealists believe that universal standards and generalizations need discovering in moving from the finite to the Infinite Being.
Educators need to be students of philosophy. Diverse philosophical strands provide guidance in developing the curriculum. So the students need the knowledge and doing experiments to make sense for learning so they  need tangible material inorder to remembering the facts by applying them.So when the students are learned how to solve academic problems ,they can solve any social problems by thinking in a logical way and this enhance all the society problems. Teach the students by giving examples from their culture to know how, what they learn in books can be used in their real life.so teaching any subject in the curriculum can be taught through selecting the needed objects that assist the cognitive and the physical development  .

1 comment:

  1. Each philosophy has its advatages and disadvantages. We should, as teachers, pick the best of each and implement it in our daily instruction. This way we would get the best of both worlds...

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