PED 1: The Teacher and the Community, School, Culture, Organizational Leadership

Idealism

Mind, sould and spirit

Plato

Father of idealism

Realism

Actual, factual, tangible - to see is to believe

Aristotle - Harry S. Broudy

Father of Realism

Pragmatism

Education should apply to real world - practicality

John Dewey

Father od Pragmatism

Progressivism

Need, interest and wants os the child

“Change”

Ability to cater the different needs of the learners

John Dewey

Father of progressivism

Existentialism

Makes his own decision and choices in life

Jean Paul Santre

Major proponent of existentialism

Essentialism

Mastery of the subject matter - basik skills

William Bagley

Father of essentialism

Perennialism

Teaching universal truths and unchanging ideas

Robert Hutchins

Proponent of perennialism

Social Reconstructionsm

Aims to transform society - focuses on social problems to attain reform.

George Ciunts

father of social reconstructionism

Behaviorism

The learners are the product of environment

John B. Watson

Father of behaviorism

Empiricism

An example of behaviorism - human knowledge gathered through five senses

John Locke

Popularized tabula rasa and proponent of Behaviorim

Constructionism

Learners construct their own knowledge through social interaction & prior knowledge

Jean piaget & Lev Vygotsy

Proponents of constructionism

Utilitarianism

Useful and will produce greatest good for the greatest number

Herbet Spencer

Father of utilitarianism