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 .
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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