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Educational Philosophies - Coggle Diagram
Educational Philosophies
Progressive educational models
Students interests and voices guide the curriculum and projects
Integrate different types and subjects of learning
Students learn through participatory experiences to problem-solve
Students engage in democracy
Progressivism
John Dewey
Democratic classroom
Students' interests and social issues
Learning by doing
Learn in community/ Collaboration
Authentic projects
Negotiated standards
Teacher as facilitator
Social reconstructionism
George S. Counts
Question power structures and challenge oppresion
Srudents' intersts and social issues
Challenge social inequalities
Students as change agents
Critical lens to textbooks, websites, TV
Reconstruct a better society
Assessments but no tests, exchange feedback
Existentialism
A.S. Neill
Individual follows interest
Student-centered / Student choice
Summer Hill school, 1921
Students naturally curious
Student find teachers
What is the purpose of school?
What should the role of teachers and students?
What should the curriculum be?
Traditional educational models
Specific predetermined curriculum
Students learn to function in society
Teacher-centered: teachers deposit knowledge into the heads of students
Students should be obedient in classrooms
Perennialism
Mortimer Adler
Discussion about great works
Teaching perrenial or eternal truths
Popular in religious schools
Lectures, readings, socratic teaching
Essentialism
Arthur E. Bestor, William Bagley,
Hyman G Rickover
Teacher-centered
Standardization
Teaching the basics/ essentials
Students be disciplined and practical
Lectures, recitations, and discussion