Philosophy of Education Essay

Oftentimes, children love learning until a sudden resentment creeps in, making school and education feel dreadful to young students. Dr. Maria Montessori’s curriculum was designed to help impressionable minds build an academic foundation, which is essential to success later in life. The Montessori method encourages teachers to “follow the child” resulting in the betterment of a young mind. The Montessori method of education started in Europe and India in the early 1900’s. Doctor Maria Montessori…

the development of the inner qualities of the human being within his students. This was achieved through helping his students develop a full and complete understanding of the world through the idealist philosophy. To begin, it is important to understand the principals behind idealist philosophy. Stating it…

There are five philosophies of education that focus on teachers and students; essentialism, perennialism, progressivism, social reconstructionism, and existentialism. Essentialism is what is used in today’s classrooms and was helped by William Bagley in the 1930s. Perennialism is close to essentialism with the same idea of sharpening student’s minds and focusing on Great Books. Progessivism, social reconstructionism, and existentialism focus more on the wants and need of the students. Many…

Physical Education. The philosophies and theories that I believe in with the methods I’d in the classroom. Between dealing with the ages groups I’d be with everyday or the age I’d like to be with. How I’d assess my classroom along with how I’d discipline my students. Along with what I’d personally like to accomplish in my classroom. As an effective Physical Education teacher I must be motivated, I love impacting students through motivation. It’s…

Over the last several years, education in the United States has become a highly politicized topic in which every person has an opinion. Each individual has an idea or new improvement that will help “fix our schools”. This has led the development of No Child Left Behind, the rise of high stakes testing, and idea of nationalized standards. This has also led to a lot of buzzwords being thrown around such as “rigor”, “college readiness” and “growth mindset”. As a nation, we are losing sight of the…

Education has the capability of empowering children to revolutionise society and as professionals, teachers have a duty of ensuring their pedagogy facilitates opportunities for each individual to prosper. Schools have a moral duty to be safe, democratic and inclusive environments that celebrate and utilise diversity. I support Dewey’s theory relating to pragmatism and his belief that education is not a preparation for life, it is life itself (Dewey, 1897). The extent to which education…

Introduction The philosophy of the principal has a great impact on the outcomes of the school and the students. The principal’s philosophy will impact the teaching styles of the faculty and staff, programs that involve student learning, and the way that the school runs. Our principals vision of the education of the students, does not include teacher proof curriculums and prefers a loosely coupled organization where teachers can change and make their lessons their own. His believe is giving…

Teacher’s philosophy of technology use in education depends on many factors. It is influenced by educator’s age; by positive and negative experiences in prior technology use; by fear of unknown information; or it could be even dictated by the school. It differentiates from one generation of teachers to the next. At age of 36 I have managed to develop fear of failing to keep up with the speed of the technology progress, but in the same time I try to remain open to the idea of being educated in…

to be, not some instrument by the means of which we are able to engage in a “world” but instead the very tool for this kind of engagement, and we use text as a way to give that language spoken authority in a “world”. If I am to respect Gadamer’s philosophies I should also take a look at the horizons that is originalism, a position on thinking how much weight the constitution should hold. This can range from extreme cases to non-extreme, were for extreme originalist view the original way the…

All teachers have their own personal philosophy that shape the way they teach. Teacher led philosophies of education are different compared to student led philosophies of education. We see the difference by looking at five major educational philosophies. I’ll begin with essentialism and perennialism which are both teacher led philosophies that tend to be more conservative and authoritarian. They don’t take students interest into consideration during lessons they only focus on teaching the…