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Exploring Philosophy and Aims of Education

Discover the core philosophies - Reconstructionism, Progressivism, Essentialism, Perennialism - and how they shape educational aims. Learn about global goals set by UNESCO and educators' statements on developing students. Gain insights into theories of education and the emphasis on human personality, moral responsibility, and spiritual enrichment.

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Exploring Philosophy and Aims of Education

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  1. Chapter 6 Philosophy and Aims of Education

  2. Four Philosophies • Reconstructionism • Progressivism • Essentialism • Perennialism

  3. Aims • Derived from examining the needs of children and youth in American society • From analyzing our culture • From studying various needs in our society

  4. Global Aims • The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) seek to promote: • Foster international understanding among all people of the world • Improve the standards of living of people in various countries • Solve continuing problems that plague humanity, such as war, disease, hunger, and unemployment

  5. Derivation of Aims • Human personality • Moral responsibility • Institutions as the servants of men • Common consent • Devotion to truth • Respect for excellence • Moral equality

  6. Brotherhood • The pursuit of happiness • Spiritual enrichment

  7. Statements by Educators • Dewey • Socializing young • Develop individual physically, mentally, morally and emotionally • National Education Association Association • Develop knowledge • Adler • Goodlad

  8. Adler • Help human beings become educated persons • Schooling is the preparatory stage • It forms the habit of learning • Goodlad (goals in 4 categories) • Academic Vocational • Social and Civic Personal

  9. Goals 2000 • All start school ready to learn • High school graduation rate increase to 90% • Students leave grades 4,8, and 12 demonstrating competency in Eng., math, science, foreign lang., civics & gov’t., economics, arts, history and geography • Will be first in world in math & science

  10. All Americans literate and possess knowledge and skills in a global eco./exercise rights and responsibilities of citizenship • Every school free of drugs, violence, firearms, and alcohol/school conducive to learning environment

  11. Teachers have access to programs to improve knowledge and skills/to help students • Every school promotes partnerships that will increase parental involvement

  12. Philosophies • Reconstructionism: transmit cultural heritage and solve political/social problems • Perennialism: truth eternal, everlasting and unchanging • Essentialism: goals primarily cognitive and intellectually organized; courses transmit culture; emphasis placed on mental principle: 3 “R’s”

  13. Progressivism: process that continues as long as one lives • Two pervasive philosophies: Essentialism and Progressivism

  14. Theories of Education • Reconstructionism • Concerned with life’s problems and solutions (social, eco., political) • Perennialism (Private school) • Truth, eternal, everlasting, and unchanging (private school concept) • High verbal and academic aptitude (testing) • Emphasis on grammar, rhetoric, logic, classical and modern languages; the Bible

  15. Essentialism (Public school) -Seeks to preserve society and adjust people to it -What has worked…stick to it -Cognitive/intellectual -neutral discipline (3 R’s, screen youth -Classroom drill, standardized testing (TAAS), behavioral objectives

  16. Progressivism (Public school) • Child centered (beginning, middle, end) • Holistic grading-integrated curriculum-inquiry-experimentalization • Learning active/learn by doing • Cooperative, completion, reflective thinking • Scientific method • Gestalt-whole picture-unit planning-perceptual-self-actualization

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