Name: Baluro, Neri Q.

Your Understanding of Philosophies I. Answer each with a Yes or No. If your answer is NO, explain
youranswer in a sentence.

ESSENTIALISM
1. Do essentialists aim to teach students to reconstruct society?
No. They aim to transmit the traditional moral values and intellectual knowledge that students need to
become model citizens
. 2. Is the model citizen of the essentialist the citizen who contributes to the re-building of society?
No. The model student is the one who shows mastery of the basic skills and that one who lives by
traditional moral values.
3. Do the essentialist teachers give up teaching the basics if the students are not interested?
No. They teach subject matter even if the students are not interested. They are more subject matter-
oriented than student-centered.
4.Do the essentialist teachers frown on long academic calendar and core requirements?
No. They need long academic calendar and core requirements for mastery of basic skills.

PROGRESSIVISM
1. Do the progressivist teachers look at education as a preparation for adult life?
No. They look at education as life.
2.Are the student’s interests and need considered in a progressivist curriculum?
Yes
3.Does the progressivist curriculum focus mainly on facts and concepts?
No. They focus more on problem-solving skills.
4. Do the progressivist teachers strive to simulate in the classroom life in the outside world?
Yes.

PERENNIALISM
1. Are the perennialist teachers concerned with the student’s mastery of the

fundamental skills?

No. They are more concerned with the study of the Great Books. If ever, they are interested in the

fundamental skills; it is because these skills are needed to study the Great Books. 2. Do the
perennialist teachers see the wisdom of ancient, medieval and modern times?

Yes

3. Is the perennialist curriculum geared towards specialization?

No. It is geared towards general or liberal education.
4. Do the perennialist teachers sacrifice subject matter for the sake of the
student’s interest?

No. Like the essentialist, subject matter is foremost to the perennialist.

EXISTENTIALISM
1. Is the existentialist teacher after student becoming specialist in order to contribute to the society?
No. They are more concerned in helping students appreciate themselves as unique individuals who
accept responsibility over their thoughts, actions and life.
2.Is the existentialist concerned with the education of the whole person?
Yes
3. Is the course of study imposed on the students in the existentialist classroom?
No. Students are given a choice.
4.Does the existentialist teacher make heavy use of the individual approach?
Yes, To allow each student to learn at his own pace.

BEHAVIORISM
1.Are behaviorists concerned with the modification of student’s behavior?
Yes
2. Do behaviorist teachers spend their time teaching their students on how to respond favorably to
various environmental stimuli?
Yes
3.Do behaviorist teachers believe they have control over some variables that affect learning?
Yes.
4. Do behaviorist teachers believe that students are the product of their environment?
Yes

LINGUISTIC PHILOSOPHY
1. Do linguistic philosophers promote the study of language?
Yes
. 2. Is the communication that linguistic philosophers encourage limited verbal language only?
No. Linguistic communication takes place in three (3) ways verbal, nonverbal, and Para-verbal.
3. Do linguistic philosophers prefer the teacher who dominates discussion to save time to the
teacherwho encourages dialogue?
No. Teachers are the one who facilitates dialogue among learners and between him/her and
his/herstudents.
4. Is the curriculum of the linguistic philosopher open to the learning of as my languages, like Mother
Tongue, as possible?
Yes

CONSTRUCTIVISM
1.Does the constructivist agree to the teaching methodology of “telling”?
No. Constructivist applies the method of constructing.
2. Do constructivists believe that students construct knowledge?
Yes
3. Do constructivists approve of teaching learners the skill to learn?
Yes
4.Do constructive believe that meaning can be imposed?
No. knowledge isn’t a thing that can be simply deposited into empty minds but rather constructed by
learners through active, mental process of development.

II. Test Your Mastery.

To which philosophy does each theory of man belong? A person:
Behaviorism 1. is a product of his environment.
Existentialism 2. has no universal nature.
Essentialism 3. has rational and moral powers.
Essentialism 4. has no choice; he is determined by his environment.
Existentialism 5. can choose what he can become.
Behaviorism 6. is a complex combination of matter that responds to physical stimuli
Behaviorism 7. has no free will.
Perennialism 8. has the sam essential nature with others.
Perennialism 9.is a rational animal.
Existentialism 10. first exists then defines him/herself.
Essentialism 11. Is a social animal who learns well.