According to George Kneller, what is education?
Education refers to any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual.
It is what a learner gets in school
Input
An input should be SMART. What does the mnemonic SMART means?
S- pecific
M - easurable
A - ttainable
R - elevant
T - ime-bound
What are the four objectives of an input?
A - udience
B - ehavior
C - ondition
D - egree
It is the teaching methods/process of delivery inputs
Process
It is the product of education input and process.
Output
What are the 4 philosophical foundations of education?
M - etaphysics
E - pistemology
A - xiology
L - ogic
What are the three components of the heart of the curriculum?
T- hinking
F - eeling
D - oing
It focuses on the nature of reality.
Metaphysics
It is the metaphysical view that associates reality to ideas in the mind rather than to material objects.
Ideas are the only reality
Idealism
Who is the father of Idealism? What is his book that tackled this?
Plato
The Republic
Believes that reality exists in physical matter and independent of the human mid.
Realism
Who is the founder of realism?
Aristotle
Only things that are observed or experienced is the only reality.
Pragmatism
Who applied Pragmatism?
John Dewey
A pragmatic teacher asks to students to work _____________.
By group
Reality is subjective. It is the philosophical belief we are each responsible for creating purpose or meaning in our own lives.
Existentialism
Who is the founder of existentialism?
Soren Kierkegaard
It is also known as the “theory of knowledge”
It also focuses on the nature and scope of knowledge
Epistemology
Whos is the founder of pragmatism?
Charles Sanders Pierce
What sees knowledge as a sensory perception?
It is the theory that human knowledge comes predominantly from experiences gathered through the five senses. (touch, hearing. sight, smell and taste)
Empiricism
It is a belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response.
Knowledge as a product of rational expression
Rationalism
It is the study of quality or value.
Related to ethics(study of rightness or wrongness of human action.
Axiology
Who coined the term axiology?
Paul Lapie and E. Von Hartmann
