Juanzo,Kyle

BSED ENGLISH 2-4B

EDUC213
Week 1

1. Explain in a sentence why each education philosopher was associated with these given
words: (10 points each)

A. John Locke – the empiricist

- Because he believed that knowledge was founded in empirical observation and experience.
Men have in their minds several ideas, such as are those expressed by the words,
whiteness, hardness, sweetness, thinking, motion, man, elephant, army, drunkenness, and
others: it is in the first place then to be inquired.
B. Spencer – the utilitaria
- Spencer's indirect utilitarianism sought to promote the conditions upon which happiness is
founded through the principle of equal freedom. Moral rights were for him merely corollaries of
the principle that flesh out its empty formalism, providing the basis for deliberation.
C. John Dewey – experience
- Dewey believed in the continuity of experience, or the connection between a student's learning
experiences and that student's future decisions and behavior. He also believed that educational
experiences required interaction between the student and their environment in order to be
effective.
D. George Counts – Building a new social order
- He wanted teachers to go beyond abstract, philosophical conceptions of democracy and teach
explicitly about power and injustice. He wanted teachers and students to count among their
primary goals the building of a better social order.
E. Theodore Brameld – the Social Reconstructionist
- He believed that education had the responsibility to mold human beings into a cohesive and
compassionate society.
F. Paulo Freire – Critical pedagogy vs. Banking method
-Through his book “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”, Freire criticized education as a banking
system that stifles learners' creative potential. In this book, he made it clear how people have
never learned to think critically about their situation.
Juanzo,Kyle
BSED ENGLISH 2-4B
EDUC213
Week 2

1. Why was the focus of education different for different groups of people in different
places and at different periods in world history? What does this point to regarding
relationship of schools and society?

-The focus on education varies due to a diversity of factors and variables. Among them
social class, governance’s mores, resources allocated for education and many others. Above
all, the question is: what tested method would enables human persons to initiate processes
towards individualization to acquire the proto agonistic action, which culturally in context is
action devoid of antagonism. Therefore, what is the object of education if human kind continues
being antagonistic to its own kind.

Juanzo,Kyle
BSED ENGLISH 2-4B
EDUC213
Week 3