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Philosophy Of Education Quiz

What is true reality rooted in?

How do you feel about the materialistic world?

What way do students learn best?

What is the role of the community in education?

What should be taught in schools?

What is the purpose of education/school?

What is the most important thing you want your students to leave with?

What teaching methods would you utilize in the classroom?

Which of the following is most important?

In self reflection, which one of these traits is most like you?

Having true reality being rooted in ideas, Idealist teachers focus on the mind more than the physical world. The material world is unstable and changing, where ideas are stable and enduring. Teachers that are Idealists teach through connecting ideas in order for students to learn within their own mind.

Idealism

Realism roots true reality in the material world, believing that it exists even beyond the human mind. Learning through a realist perspective requires using logical processes, studying the natural world, and utilizing a skill of inquiry and scientific purposes.

Realism

Perennialism finds the true reality fixed in everlasting truths and unchanging ideas derived from art and literature through cultural motifs and archetypes. Perennialism holds that all human beings have the same basic natures and utilize education as a way to develop individuals that are deep, analytical, flexible, and imaginative. Teachers who are Perennialist focus more on teaching "concepts" rather than information that may become outdated or disconnected within a few years.

Perennialism

Essentialism believes that the ultimate goal of education is creating proper and good citizens. This is done by creating a curriculum of the basics of academic knowledge to be taught to students. Teachers who use essentialism focus on training students's minds, promoting reasoning in students, and creating a common culture.

Essentialism

Behaviorism is the idea that education and all learning is dependent on the environment. By teaching certain behaviors in a specific environment, students will be able to learn more effectively because they have been taught to do so. Teachers are focused on teaching universal laws of behavior.

Behaviorism

Pragmatism sees the true reality of the world as being relative and ever-changing. This philosophy encourages learning through experiences. Teachers encourage students to become adaptive to their environment while being cooperative, dynamic, and problem solving individuals. Pragmatism is hands on learning through personal experiences which is used to created the students' own reality.

Pragmatism

Progressivism is about educating the whole student. Students learn by answering their own questions through experimentation and by which creating their own education. Teachers are mentors and can offer encouragement, but not necessarily the knowledge basis as students are developing their own. This education of philosophy is active, engaging, and questioning.

Progressivism

Existentialism sees the reality of the world in the subjectivity of the individual while the physical and material world hold no meaning. This philosophy in education focuses on freedom and the development of authentic individuals. Teachers become mentors that teach each student as an individual while encouraging student peer work. Students working with peers promotes more questioning and development of individuals because this challenges current ideas and beliefs and causes them to further develop critical thinking.

Existentialism

Reconstructionism bases education on social change and world events. Learning in reconstrunctionism is about making connections within all subjects to world events and how the individual impacts the world. This requires to think critically and with problem solving skills about the world around them. This philosophy encourages community involvement and connection with the world around the student.

Reconstrunctionism

Post-Modernism is about creating a new system. There is the realization that the old education system has become outdated and begun to fail. The ultimate goal of Post-Modernism is to create a new education system that incorporates community involvement and reflects the diversity of the surrounding society.

Post-Modernism

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