Showing posts with label Educational Philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Educational Philosophy. Show all posts

Tuesday, 16 December 2014

EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHIES

Within the epistemological frame that focuses on the nature of knowledge and how we come to know, there are four major educational philosophies, each related to one or more of the general or world philosophies just discussed. These educational philosophical approaches are currently used in classrooms the world over. They are Perennialism, Essentialism, Progressivism, and Reconstructionism. These educational philosophies focus heavily on WHAT we should teach aspect of the curriculum.

AREAS IN PHILOSOPHY

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems such as those concerned with knowledge, values, reason and mind. Literally the word philosophy means the love of wisdom and so it is the in-depth scientific study of facts of the universe and it has three basic areas such as:
·         Epistemology
·         Ontology
·         Axiology