Myca Ramos
EDUC 60
BSE 1-SCI 1
September 17, 2020
Assignment
TASK 1 (60 points)
Direction: Make a table summary of the Philosophies of Education:
PHILOSOPHER AIMS AND METHODS OF
EDUCATION
1. ESSENTIALIST: AIMS: Training the mind of
William Bagley students with what are
(1874-1946) essential like basic skills such
as reading, writing, arithmetic
and right conduct.
METHODS: The classroom
is teacher-centered and most
likely to have lecture-based
type of class.
2. PERENNIALIST: AIMS: Teach ideas or
Robert Maynard concepts that have stayed true
Hutchins (1899- over time.
1977) METHOD: Teach everlasting
ideas and apply them in real
life.
3. PROGRESSIVIST: AIMS: To develop learners
John Dewey (1859- into becoming enlightened
1952) and intelligent citizens of a
democratic society.
METHOD: Progressivists
employ experiential methods.
They believe that one learns
by doing. They also heavily
rely on problem-solving
method that makes use of the
scientific method.
4. EXISTENTIALIST AIMS: To help students
CLASSROOM/SCHOOL
APPLICATION
Essentialist teaches students with
basic knowledges. In the classroom
Essentialists are teacher-centered
and the expected to the role model in
class. While the student’s role is to
listen and trust that teacher know
Perennialists focus on applying
classical ideas to modern world.
Example is reading, analyzing, and
discussing a historical text. NOT a
history book. Another is using
religious text in the classroom when
discussing time periods in history.
Progressivist are more concerned
with teaching the learners the skills
to cope with change. They rather
focus their teaching on the skills or
processes in gathering and
evaluating information and in
problem-solving. Students solve
problems in classroom similar to
those they will encounter outside of
the schoolhouse.
Existentialists focus on the
 Jean-Paul Sartre understand and appreciate individual. Learning is self-paced
(1905-1980) themselves as unique and self-directed. It includes a great
individuals who accept deal of individual contact with the
complete responsibility for teacher who relates to each student
their thoughts, feeling and openly and honestly. Teachers
actions. remain non-judgmental and take
METHODS: Students are care not to impose their values on
given a wide variety of their students since values are
options from which to choose. personal.
Existentialists encourage
individual creativity and
imagination more than
copying and imitating
established models.
5. BEHAVIORIST AIMS: To modify and shape Behaviorists teacher arrange
John Watson (1878- students’ behavior by environmental conditions so that
1958) providing for a favorable students can make the responses to
environment. stimuli. They ought to make the
METHODS: Behaviorist stimuli clear and interesting to
teachers teach students to capture and hold the learners’
respond favorably to various attention. They ought to provide
stimuli in the environment. appropriate incentives to reinforce
positive responses and weaken or
eliminate negative ones.
6. CONSTRUCTIVIST AIMS: To develop In the constructivist classroom, the
Jean Piaget (1996- intrinsically motivated and teacher provides students with data
1980) independent learners, or experiences that allow them to
adequately equipped with hypothesize, predict, manipulate
learning skills for the them to objects, pose questions, research,
be able to construct investigate, imagine and invent. The
knowledge make meaning of constructivist class is interactive. It
them. promotes dialogical exchange of
METHODS: The learners are ideas among learners between
taught how to learn. They are teacher and learners. The teachers
taught learning processes and are only facilitators.
skills.
TASK 2 (40 points)
Question: As a future teacher, what philosophy will you adapt? Explain your answer.

As a future teacher, I want to adapt few philosophies for my students in the future. First
philosophy that I want to adapt is Empiricist. I, myself is an Empiricist. I learn from experiences
through senses. I don’t just believe on what I’ve heard from other people. I have to see it myself
before believing it. That is also wise thinking about information that surround us. Because, not
all information is true or proven. That is why I want my students to learn from their experience
through their senses. It is also an efficient way to learn because not all students learn from what
just they heard or read in books. Also, it is a better way to remember the lesson because they’ve
seen or touched it their selves.
Next is Pragmatism. I want to adapt this philosophy because similar with Empiricism the
learners learn from experience. The only difference is in Empiricism is students learn from
experience through senses while in Pragmatism it’s experience from doing. Like what I already
stated, it’s easy to remember things when you do it yourself.
And the last philosophy that I want to adapt is Existentialism. I want my student to
remember me not as a terror or inconsiderate teacher. Rather, I want my students to remember
me as a teacher that they can depend on. In Existentialism, it gives importance of the
individuality of the students. That every student is different in different aspects. I want to be a
teacher that can relate to my student and will understand their needs as an individual in my
classroom.