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Philosophical Foundations of Education

level questions: Professional Education

Question	Answer
The science that seeks to organize and systemize all fields of knowledge as a means of understanding and interpreting the totality of reality.The systematic and logical explanation of the nature, existence, purpose and relationships of things, including human beings in the universe.	Philosopy
It deals with the first principles, the origin an essence of things, the causes and end of things.	Metaphysics
It deals with knowledge and with ways of knowing.	Epistemology
It deals with purposes and values.	Axiology
It deals with the correct way of thinking.	Logic
It focus on cognitive learning and subject matter mastery.	Realism
Teachers expect that students will learn to apply problem-solving method to situations both in and out of school and thus connect the school to society.	Pragmatism
Teachers stimulate an intense awareness that students are responsible for his own education and self-definition.	Existentialism
It argue that teachers must first empower themselves as professional educators.	Postmodernism
Teachers need to have a solid academic foundation to act as intellectual mentors and models.	Perennialism
It tries to instill all students with the most essential or basic academic knowledge and skills and character development.	Essentialism
Learners learn successfully if they explore their environment and construct their own conception of reality based on their direct experience.	Progressivism
It focus on present and future trends and issues of national and international interests	Reconstructionism
An approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior. They believe that it is shaped deliberately by forces in the environment and that the type of person and actions desired can be the product of design.	Behaviorism
The doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason; rejects religion and the supernatural. It focus on the social and emotional well-being of the child, as well as the cognitive.	Humanism
He believe that we as humans are self-undertstanding and reflect on their experiences to solve their problems.	Jerome Bruner
He is known as the "Father of Kindergarten".	Friedrich Froebel
She was a physician and educator who developed an education method based on the premise that children love to learn.	Maria Montessori
“Let me forever go in search of myself; never for a moment think I have found myself; be as a stranger to myself, never a familiar seeking acquaintance still.”	Thoreau
He says that compartmentalization of curricular offerings is not desirable, because relationship of things to each other needs to be presented.	George Herbert Meade