Activity 1

Educ 3 – The Teacher and the Community, School Culture and

Organizational Leadership

Name:__Kyla R. Conda________ Course/Year:__BTLED 1B_____ Date

Submitted: _02/01/2021

I. Explain in a sentence why each education philosopher was

associated with these given words:

a.) John Locke – the empiricist - because he believed that knowledge

was founded in empirical observation and experience.

b.) Spencer – the utilitarianist - Spencer developed an

evolutionary utilitarian ethics in which the principles of ethical
living are based on the evolutionary changes of organic development.

c.) John Dewey – experience – he believes that learning is through

experience and he also believes that human beings learn through “hands
on approach”.

d.) George Counts – Building a new social order - In his

address Counts proposed that teachers "dare build a new social order"
through a complex, but definitely possible, process. He explained that
only through schooling could students be educated for a life in a
world transformed by massive changes in science, industry, and
technology.

e.) Theodore Brameld – the Social Reconstructionist -  Brameld founded

the educational philosophy of Social Reconstructionism which
emphasized the addressing of social questions and a quest to create a
better society and worldwide democracy (Philosophical Perspectives).
Reconstructionist educators focus on a curriculum that emphasizes
social reform as the aim of education.

f.) Paulo Freire – Critical pedagogy vs. Banking Method -

Freire chooses the process of critical pedagogy as
his pedagogical model than the banking method.

II. Make a table summary of the philosophies of education.

Philosophy on Aim/s
Classroom/School
Philosopher and Method/s of
Application
Education

John Locke Locke believed the Make them relevant to

 purpose of education
was to produce an
individual with a
sound mind in a sound
body so as to better
serve his country.
Locke thought that the their own innate
content of education interest.
ought to depend upon
one's station in life.
The common man only
required moral,
social, and vocational
knowledge.

Believed that the only

way to gain knowledge The school should be
was through a representative of a
scientific methods. To social environment and
survive in a complex that students learn
Herbert Spencer society, Spencer best when in natural
favors specialized social settings
education over general
education

According to John
Dewey, the development
of social efficiency
is one of the aims of
education. To him,
school is a social The teacher must know
institution. The the original nature of
school should be the child as well as
organised in such a the social demands.
John Dewey way that the The teacher has to
activities of the direct and guide the
outer world are child’s activities in
reflected. Education socially desirable
takes place with the channels.
participation of the
individual in social
activities and
relationships with his
fellow human beings.

George Counts Education is not based School should provide

 equal learning
opportunities to all
students. School
should cope-up with
on eternal truths but
social change that
is relative to a
arises from
particular society
technology. School is
living at a given time
an instrument for
and place.
social improvement
rather than an agency
for preserving the
“status quo”.

Reconstructionist
educators focus on a
curriculum that
emphasizes social
The teacher’s role was
reform as the aim of
to convince his or her
education. Brameld
students of the
believed the creation
validity and urgency
of a new social order
of the
through education
Reconstructionist
would full fill the
Theodore Brameld solution. In order to
basic values of
do this, education
society and harmonize
would have to be
with the underlying
completely re-
social and economic
fashioned to meet the
forces of the modern
demands of the present
world. The child, the
cultural crisis
school, and education
would be conditioned
by social and cultural
forces.

Prepared by:

CHRISTIAN R. TINO
Instructor