MAPEH 1: Foundation of Music, Arts, Physical Education and Health

Introduction

What makes a teacher? Teaching is like a salad. Think about it. If you were to attend a party for any given holiday, the number of and
variations to each salad recipe that might be present for consumption could outnumber those present at the party. There are so many different ways to
teach, varying circumstances to take into account, and philosophies to apply to each classroom. And what better way to have a positive impact on the
world than to offer knowledge for consumption? The term teacher can be applied to anyone who imparts knowledge of any topic, but it is generally
more focused on those who are hired to do so (teach, n.d., n.p.). In imparting knowledge to our students, it is inevitable that we must take into
account our own personal philosophies, or pedagogies, and determine not only how we decide what our philosophies are, but also how those impact
our consumers.

Philosophy
Perennialism

General Education
Perennialists are instructors

Perennialists believ

who feel that the knowledge

e that one should

that has been passed through

teach the things that

the ages should be continued

one deems to be of

as the basis of the

everlasting

curriculum, like the classic

pertinence to all
people everywhere.

Music

Arts

Physical Education

Health

In teaching music a

The teacher as a perrenialist

The P.E teacher will not

The teacher may

works of Plato and Einstein.

perennialist teacher uses

teaches the widely used

recognize the new kinds

textbooks in healt

Perennialists base their

traditional techniques,

techniques in artworks that

of exercises instead they

education compar

They believe that

teachings on reason, logic,

old book references and

has been used years ago by

make use of old ways to

the new informati

the most important

and analytical thought. Only

classical music genre in

artist. They will not let the

do a warm-up exercise.

the internet.

topics develop a

information that stood the

the classroom and they

students do use

person.

test of time is relevant. They

will not let the choice of

contemporary artwork

do not illicit student input.

music by the students be

techniques.

The classes most likely to be

presented in the

considered under this

classroom.

approach would be history,

Instruction is organized

Pragmatism is a

around problem-solving

rejection of the idea

following the steps of the

that the function of

scientific method -

The teacher is focus on

The teacher uses the method

The P.E. teacher will be

The teacher will l

thought is to

emphasizes the need to act

the step by step process

of doing a project example a

first discuss the

student do a resea

describe, represent,

on concepts by testing them

in learning certain music

sketch project after learning

important concept of

activity about a sc

or mirror reality.

(Ornstein, 2003, p.104).

from a single beat to a

from a lecture about

doing warming up and

experiment and w

Instead, pragmatists

complicated song by

sketching techniques.

cooling down before and

them know the co

develop their

doing a practicum.

after a extreme exercise

of scientific steps

philosophy around

and after that act on the

solving a problem

the idea that the

concept learned

do an own researc

function of thought
is as an instrument

experiment.

or tool for
prediction, action,
and problem
solving.
Idealism

Focuses on a subject-matter

Idealism is a

curriculum emphasizing the

philosophical

great ideas of the culture.

An idealist teacher will

An idealist teacher will most An idealist teacher in

The Body System

approach that has as

Teaching methods focus on

make the topic be more

likely do a lecture before an

P.E. classes will most

first be lectured in

its central tenet that

handling ideas through

focused like in Music

assessment of how well the

likely do a lecture on the

classroom and a

ideas are the only

lecture, discussion, and

the teacher will give a

student learn the topic like

topics than let the

dialogue or a

true reality, the only

Socratic dialogue (a method

lecture and will let the

when the topic is about

students do a practical

brainstorming of

thing worth

of teaching that uses

student do a

basic form of art. An idealist

activity. Like a warm up

the class as an

knowing. In a

questioning to help students

collaborative work on

teacher will first hold a

exercise the teacher will

assessment in how

search for truth,

discover and clarify

discussion about a topic

lecture o the topic and

first do lecture then let

they learn the top

beauty, and justice

knowledge). (Ornstein,

example a topic about

afterwards do an assessment

the students perform

be the strategy of

that is enduring and

2003, p.99).

melodies.

like a pen and paper test, not their own exercise.

everlasting, the

necessarily the practical

focus is on

assessment.

conscious reasoning
in the mind. Plato,
father of Idealism,
espoused this view
about 400 years BC

teacher.

Realism

A subject-matter curriculum

Realists believe that

stressing objective

A realist teacher often

A realist teaches arts to

A realist P.E. teacher

A realist Health te

reality exists

knowledge and values.

gives lectures about

students by giving emphasis

introduces unified warm

students by discu

independent of the

Reality is objective,

music from books with

on the knowledge about the

up exercises and

its topic and asses

human mind. The

meaning everyone should

unified handouts in

topic and integrate it in the

explains its importance

student earning af

ultimate reality is

obtain the same results

order to attain the same

values formation of

in doing a work out.

demonstration.

the world of

regardless of what he does

outcomes.

students.

physical objects.

or how he consider concepts

The focus is on the

(Ornstein, 2003, p.101)

body/objects. Truth
is objective-what
can be observed.
Aristotle, a student
of Plato who broke
with his mentor's
idealist philosophy,
is called the father
of both Realism and
the scientific
method.
Constructivism

Active participation is the

Constructivism, a

key to this teaching style.

As an activity before a

The teacher will make group The teacher will let the

The teacher will l

perspective in

Students are free to explore

lecture the teacher will

the students and will let

students decide on what

students videotap

education, is based

their own ideas and share

let the student make

them explore the history of

kind of dance steps in

record on the imp

on experimental

concepts with one another in

their own music by

arts throughout the world by

the contemporary dance

body systems and

learning through

nontraditional ways. Hands

inspired by past events

doing research before a

craze activity which will

of the malfunctio

real life experience

on activity [] is the most

to construct and

be performed in

on the human bod

effective way of learning

culmination of their

system through a

conditionalize

and is considered true

Mapeh class for the

film.

knowledge.

learning (Educational

school year.

Philosophies in the
Classroom, pg.1).

of their lives.

discussion in the classroom.