EDUCATIONAL

PHILOSOPHY
Things to Know…
01
WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?

02
WHAT IS EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY?

03 PHILOSOPHICAL ROOTS
Idealism, Realism, Pragmatism

04 OTHER PHILOSOPHICAL THEORIES

PERENNIALISM, ESSENTIALISM, PROGRESSIVISM,
SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTIVISM, EXISTENTIALISM
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PHILOSOPHY

Love of wisdom
 John Dewey
“ - Most influential American
philosopher and educationist of the
20th Century.
- Rejected authoritarian structures
and subsequently the traditional
teaching methods in schools
- Believed that at the center of the
whole academia was the child
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 John Dewey
“ - Inspired by Karl Marx`s Theory
of Social Struggle and Conflict
between classes.
- Saw Education as a mean of
serving the democratic process.
- Structure and order must be
based on a clear theory of
experience.
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Education
Thought of as the transmission of the values and
accumulated knowledge of a society
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The aggregate of all processes by which a person develops
ability, attitudes and other forms of behavior of practical
values in the society in which he lives.
 Types of Education
Education given by agencies, like the
school and the church
Formal Education

Informal Education
Refers to that which is generally acquired by the
individual organized institution designed for
educational purposes.
Educational Philosophy

Systematic attempt: To apply the findings of philosophy to the

ultimate questions of education
to:
Gives directions and points of: Destination to the teachers,
administrators, and supervisors

Questions, examines factors of reality

Asks:
and experience
 Philosophical Roots
Idealism 01

Realism 02

Pragmatis 03
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 Truth or reality
exists in ideas or in
spirit or in the mind
Idealism Holds that the most
basic “unit” of reality is
NOT material, but
conceptual

IDEALISM IN EDUCATION
Education as a Social The Objectives of
01 04
Institution Education

The Learner 02 05 The Educative Process

The Learner is in the Factors in the Idealist-Inspired

process of Becoming 03 06 Education
Social Philosophy of Idealism
The idealist notion of society gives the
philosophy an essentially social and
moral learning.
According to Idealism, society is not a
collection of individuals; it is an
organism in which individuals participate.
 Realism
Realists believe that
reality exists
independent of the
human mind. The
ultimate reality is the
world of physical
objects. The focus is
on the body/objects.
 Four Forms Of Realism
Scholastic Realism
1 - it recognizes both a
natural order and supernatural
order.
Social Realism
- this view regarded
3 education as the direct
preparation for the life of the
"man of the world".
Humanistic or Literary Realism
2
- known as verbal realism
- Form believes that a complete
knowledge of man, nature, and society is
needed to fit the individual for the realities
of life through the study of classical
literature.
Sense Realism
- the ultimate purpose of education is
4 still happiness with God.
 Realism in Education
-Education as a social institution

“Man is not made a man only by his biological

birth. If he is to be made man, human culture
must give direction and form to his basic
potentialities.” - Comenius
“The tendencies we inherit by the birth are
indeterminate and flexible.” - John Wild
 The Learner
the doctrines of the mind and of determinism
have implications for the realist
teachers understanding of his students.
Dr. Harry Samuel Broudy (1905-1998)
describe the learners by elaborating
four principles which comprise the
essence of the human self:
Appetitive Principle - our appetite discloses the need of our tissues to maintain and
reproduce themselves

Principle of self-determination -refers to the resistance which the self meets in the
people, objects, and events.

Principle of self-realization- peeling away fabricated layers of one's own personality

to understand the true-self and hence the true nature of reality.

Principle of self-integration - keeps self-determination and self-realization from

going off in all directions.
 Broudy propose the possibility that an
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Broudy suggested a combination of a
THE EDUCATIVE PROCESS
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subject-matter and problem approaches
Socratic Method
01 Disputation

02 Memorization

03 Lecture

04 Activity Method

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Social Philosophy of Realism
The approach of realism to social values
comes from the assumption that no
matter how important social values are,
the foundation of their existence are the
physical universe and individual man.