Term | Definition |
Philosophy | Identifying the basic truths about being, knowledge, and conduct |
Educational Philosophy | What you believe about education |
Epistemology | Focuses on knowledge |
Axiology | Highlights the fact that a teacher has a interest not only in the quantity but also the quality of life |
Ethics | What is good and evil, what is right and wrong, just and unjust |
Logic | Deals with the process of reasoning and identifies rules that will enable the thinker to reacg valid conclusions. |
Aesthetics | Concerned with values related to beauty and art. |
Logic | Area of philosohy that deals with teh process of reaosning and identifies rules that will enable teh thinker to reach valid conclusions. |
Socratic Questioning | Discussion that is charaterized by questioning |
Perrenialism | Views truth as constant, perennial. |
Essentialism | Conservative philosophy of education: holds that our culture has a core of common knowledge |
Post-modernism | Influences teh ciriculm content and institutional strategies some teachers use |
Existentialism | How does it apply to ME |
Critical Pedagogy | Focuses on how education can promote social justice |
Social justice | Philosophical orientation that emphasizes equity and equal social benfits for all indoviduals and groups |
Feminist Pedagogy | Serves the power of dominant ideologies |
Humanistic Psychology | Emphasizes personal freedom, choice, awarness, and personal responsibility |
Humanism | Individuals control their own destinies through the application of their intelligence and learning. |
Constructivism | Students who use cognitive processes to construct understandinfg fo material to be learned |
Cognitive Science | The study of mental processes studnets use thinking and remmebering |
Behavorism | Principle taht desirable human behavior can be the product of design rather than accident. |
Metaphysics | Concerned with explaining as rationally and comprehensively as possible |
Progressivism | Belief that education should be child-centered rather than focused on the teacher or the content area. |
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