Holy Name University

City of Tagbilaran
Graduate Studies

Subject: Educ 303, Advanced Philosophy of Education

Name: ALVIE ANN L. AYING Date: 11/12/2022

Course & Year: Ph.D. ELT I Score:

1. On a personal basis, what is the importance of theater?

Augusto Boal, a theater practitioner, reportedly remarked, "Theater is the

art of looking at ourselves." The theater includes self-expression and enjoyment
of life from its various perspectives. As a performer myself from elementary
school through college, I used to act, dance, and sing even sometimes out of
sync on stage. The stage has since become my playground.
For me the importance of theater is self-expression. Of course, acting
classes improve skills like acting and dancing, but other than that, self-
expression comes first. Performers in this range become more expressive.
Through acting and playing dream roles in the theater which require different
emotions, one can express his/her suppressed feelings. Singing and dancing are
other assignments, in which the art of drama is also present. Additionally, seeing
theater helps us understand life from various angles. An actor can be rich or
poor, can be flirty or demure, can be good or bad, in short, he/she can be whom
he/she wants to be on stage. Playing either the heroine or the villain on the
stage, performers get a chance to take part in the other side of life – even the
opposite ones. There are roles that a performer may hate but embracing those
somehow makes a difference in the life of the actor. Audience watching is even
made aware of the different roles and situations portrayed by the performers and
thus helps them understand what it means to be human. Everyone can
empathize with the portrayal of the actors that they have seen on stage, hence
life lessons and realizations do come in.

2. On a wider perspective, what are the benefits of joining theater?

Theater encompasses a lot of benefits. It brings happiness to people, for it

reduces stress and allows one to escape from the reality of life. Performers are
like being taken to a new world, different from the world that they are in. On the
other hand, knowing performers in theater, these people are too expressive,
emotional, and candid, thus in the lowest times of their lives, theater can also be
their outlet when no one else is there for them. Theater serves as a second home
for those who perform on stage.
Moreover, the theater helps the performers with the self-assurance
necessary for communicating lucidly, coherently, and deliberately. One can learn
 how to speak confidently in front of large crowds while performing on stage, and
some of the theatre programs will provide additional practice speaking to groups .
So this group can help in overcoming shyness and build the conviction to perform
in front of a large audience and give one’s best. Thus, theater can help boost
one’s self-confidence. Job Benefits also take advantage of the theater. Learning
something, enrolling in a class, entering a contest, getting a certificate, or at least
being part of a group can have a huge positive impact on one’s career. Lastly,
Theater brings people together. Meeting new people is common here. One will
have the chance to make new friends. This enhances and improves the social
experience. It's a great way to meet new cool people and enjoy spending time
with them each week. If one also feels bored with everything and looking for a
new hobby, this could be the best hobby. And in an age when most of our
communication takes place in front of screens, I think the collecting function of
theater itself is beneficial.

3. Explain “Theater is a historical conceit.”

Since ancient times, people have found entertainment in the theater. For a
performance to take place, from 100 to 1000 or more people gather in one place
for several hours and together create an event that is beautiful, funny, moving,
thought-provoking, or preferably at least distracting. This has been people’s way
of escaping from the reality of life, where they primarily witness firsthand the
actors immersing in the fantasy world created by the playwright and director.
Thus, for me makes theater a historical conceit.
 Holy Name University
City of Tagbilaran
Graduate Studies

Subject: Educ 303, Advanced Philosophy of Education

Name: ALVIE ANN L. AYING

Course & Year: Ph.D. ELT I

Topic: PEDAGOGY
What is Pedagogy?

-Pedagogy refers to the method of communicating and sharing knowledge, and that is
what teaching is.
-Centers with the question of how knowledge is passed on to or reinvented by the one
who knows.
-It clarifies whether knowledge is simply to be replicated by or “deposited” to the learner,
or something to be created by teacher and student
-Many educators may not be aware of it, but it is a fact that when teaching is translated
as the mere “depositing” of information which the students are made to repeat, to
memorize and which teacher “withdraws” from the students during examinations or
recitation, learning becomes rote or mechanical ..but when teaching is done in such a
manner that the students are not considered as mere “receptacles” or “depositories” of
what the teacher transmits, but con-investigators or recreators pf knowledge, learning
becomes critical and meaningful

Pedagogical Approaches/Methods

1.The Apprentice Method

2. The Banking Method
3. The Dialogue Method

The Apprentice Method

-The word “apprentice” is applied to a person who tries to learn a trade, a calling, or an
art by way of imitating or reproducing what others know or do.
-Learning role identity or learning to be like, rather than learning to be oneself
-Encyclopedia Britanica states:
“The one who does not know (the apprentice) watches the one who does (the master);
he imitates the master, probably fails, watches again, tries again, and so on until he
knows- what the master knows.”
-If such is the way the apprentice learns, then the apprenticeship method is nothing less
than a mechanical reproduction or repetition of what others know.
- Based on “the superiority-inferiority relationship”, that is the master (who knows) over
the apprentice (who does not know).
-Thus an education which does not “humans: but automatons which do not think nor act
except in the manner prescribes by the master (the teacher).
-The mere repetition and reproduction of what was transmitted does not lead to the full
flowering of the human capacity to be critical and innovative. It ceases to be human;
one becomes a robot. Since robots do not think, nor plan, nor decide, though they may
be efficient at home or in workplace, they can be easily manipulated to adapt the world.
-Interest of the one who would want a man to repeat and reproduce all that is
transmitted to him

The Banking Method

-As known by all students of education, the communication of knowledge is a matter of

telling a story or narrating an event so the task of the learner is reduced to listening,
memorizing, and repeating what the teacher has told or narrated. When the student can
reproduce verbatim what has been communicated through this method, then the
teacher becomes convinced that knowledge has been assimilated.
-Students are viewed as “containers” or “receptacles” which teacher must fill with
knowledge or information.
-”the more completely the teacher fills the receptacles, the better the teacher is, the
more meekly the receptacles (students) permit themselves to be filled, the better
students they are”
-students are some sort of “tabula rasa” or a “passive vessel” to be filled
-Banking concept of education serves the interest of the “oppressors” who care neither
to have the world revealed nor to see it transformed
The Dialogue Method

-the dialogue appears to recognize the capacity of the students to achieve self
development and self-reliance through an intellectual intercourse with the teacher
=The less critical men are, the less they question the root-cause of the inequitable
distribution of wealth and power in the society in which they live
-the “teacher of the students” and “the students of the teacher” is replaced by a new
paradigm” Teacher-students and student-teacher
- both teachers and students become “jointly responsible for a process in which all
grow”
-no one has a monopoly of knowledge so that “the authority of teacher” is set aside

SUMMARY

1. Apprenticeship Method – repetition of what others do or know

2. Banking Method – seeing students as passive vessels to be filled
3. Dialogue Method – recognizing the capacity of the students through intellectual
intercourse