DIVISION OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY
by PRINCESS AINA
1. ESSENTIALISM
2. EXISTENTIALISM
3. CURRICULUM : Core skills like 3R, Values discipline hard work and perfect authority, The primary mission is academic, Has a well defined curricular-orientation, The teacher is an academic authority figure.
4. Education that have been useful in the past and are likely to remain useful in the future
5. PEDAGOGY USED : Deductive Method, Recitation, Assignments, Analysis and Synthesis, " Race and Social Heritage " over experiences.
6. ROLE OF TEACHER : Provide stimulating activities for learning, Prepare well-organized lessons, Authoritative and Disciplinarian
7. EDUCATIONAL AIM : To train individual for significant and meaningful existence.
8. PROPONENT : SOREN KIERKEGAARD ( FATHER OF EXISTENTIALISM )
9. SUBJECT : Subject centered, Literature, History, Arts for Aesthetic Expression, Humanities for Ethical Values
10. PEDAGOGY USED : Inquiry Approach, Question-Answer Method, Experimentation, Self-expressive activities.
11. ROLE OF TEACHERS : Good provider of experiences, Effective questioner, Mental disciplinarian
12. ROLE OF THE STUDENT : Determines own rule
13. STUDENT CENTERED
14. TEACHER CENTERED
15. AIM OF EDUCATION : Instill students with the essential of academic knowledge, enacting a back to basics approach.
16. One major supporter of essentialism is Diane Ravitch. Ravitch wrote several books in support.
17. IDEALISM
18. REALISM
19. AIM OF EDUCATION : To develop the individual spiritually, mentally and morally.
20. SUBJECT : Literature, History, Philosophy, Religion, Mathematics, Art.
21. PEDAGOGY USED : Lecture ( discussion method ), Excursion, Question Method, Project Method.
22. CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT : Imitating examples of hero.
23. ROLE OF TEACHER : Chief source of inspiration and Creator of educational environment.
24. AIM OF EDUCATION : Emphasis on the practical side of education for moral and character development.
25. PEDAGOGY USED : Understanding of facts, Teach fundamental facts, and Emphasis on critical reason ( obervation & experimentation )
26. SUBJECT : practical and useful.
27. PROPONENT : JOHN LOCKE, JOHN AMOS COMENIUS, JOHANN PESTALOZZI, FROEBEL, HERBART, MARIA MONTESSORI.
28. ROLE OF TEACHER : Present material in a systematic and organized way, Promote the idea that one can used clearly defined criteria in making judgments, Take a critical look at what students are doing.
29. TEACHER CENTERED
30. TEACHER CENTERED
31. HENRIK IBSEN : FATHER OF REALISM
