Hostel Welfare Officer Paper II · 1 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers · APPSC Paper I
1.1 Philosophical foundations of education notes
3 notes, in reading order.
- 1.1.1Education: meaning, aims, types and agencies; philosophy and education
Education is the lifelong process of drawing out and developing what is best in a person; it has individual and social aims, comes in formal, non-formal and informal forms through active and passive agencies, and its aims, curriculum and methods are set by philosophy, its "contemplative side" (Ross).
Standard · 22 min · Read here - 1.1.2Idealism and naturalism in education
Idealism holds that mind and spirit are the real things and makes self-realisation through eternal values the aim, with the teacher at the centre; naturalism holds that nature is the only reality and lets the child develop freely by self-expression, with the teacher as an observer (Rousseau's "back to nature").
Standard · 18 min · Read here - 1.1.3Pragmatism, realism, existentialism and Marxism in education
Pragmatism judges ideas by whether they work and teaches by doing (Dewey, Kilpatrick's project method); realism holds that the world of things is real and is known through the senses; existentialism puts the unique, free individual first (Kierkegaard); Marxism aims at a classless society through education joined to productive labour.
Standard · 19 min · Read here
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