Areas of Philosophy as a process of EDUCATION. by loriejoy pongaron

PLATO - Idealism

pongaronloriejo — 2015-08-12 12:43:58 UTC

Held that people are born with skills appropriate to different castes (though he did not regard these skills as being inherited).

Aristotle - Realism

pongaronloriejo — 2015-08-12 12:52:17 UTC

Aristotle placed great emphasis on balancing the theoretical and practical aspects of subjects taught.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau -

pongaronloriejo — 2015-08-12 13:01:10 UTC

Held that there was one developmental process common to all humans.

Thomas Aquinas - Scholasticism

pongaronloriejo — 2015-08-12 13:16:13 UTC

The objective of medieval education was an overtly religious one, primarily concerned with uncovering transcendental truths that would lead a person back to God through a life of moral and religious choice

John Dewey- Pragmatism

pongaronloriejo — 2015-08-12 13:37:08 UTC

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of the "social continuity of life" given the "primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group".

Paulo Freire - Critical theory

pongaronloriejo — 2015-08-12 13:44:07 UTC

"Banking concept of education," in which the student was viewed as an empty account to be filled by the teacher.

Allan Bloom- Progressivism

pongaronloriejo — 2015-08-12 13:51:32 UTC

Educational progressivism is the belief that education must be based on the principle that humans are social animals who learn best in real-life activities with other people.

Maria Montessori

pongaronloriejo — 2015-08-12 13:57:23 UTC

The child's true normal nature" in 1907.