FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION

v John Locke was an English philosopher and physician "Father of Liberalism" ; to form character (mental, physical, and moral) ; Education as Training of the mind/Formal discipline ; Notable ideas - "Tabula rasa"

v Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator and author. "Father of scientific method" "Father of empiricism"

v Jean Jacques Rousseau was a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer and composer of the 18th century."Hollistic education"(physical,moral, intellectual)

v Notable ideas - moral simplicity of humanity; child centered learning; Famous novel: "Emile" or On Education; Human Development

v Edgar Dale  was an American educator who developed the "Cone of Experience"

v aka "Father of Modern Media in Education"

v Erik Erikson was a German-born American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on "psychosocial development" of human beings.

v Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach. "Social regeneration of humanity" Notable ideas: "Four-sphere concept of life" his motto was " Learning by head, hand and heart"

v Friedrich Frobel was a German pedagogue a student of Pestalozzi who laid the "foundation of modern education" based on the recognition that children have unique needs and capabilities. "Father of kindergarten"

v Johann Herbart was a German philosopher, psychologist and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline. ;

v Edward Lee Thorndike was an American psychologist ; " Father of Modern educational psychology; connectionism; law of effect. ; "Realize the fullest satisfaction of human wants"

 

PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION

 

Ø IDEALISM Plato (own ideas) nothing exist except in the mind of a man/ what we want the world to be

Ø REALISM Aristotle;Herbart; Comenius; Pestalozzi; Montessori; Hobbes; Bacon; Locke

§  (experience) fully mastery of knowledge

Ø BEHAVIORISM always guided by standards/by procedure; purpose is to modify the behavior

Ø EXISTENTIALISM Kierkegaard; Sartre; "Man shapes his being as he lives"

§  Focuses on self/individual

Ø PRAGMATISM/EXPERIMENTALISM William James; John Dewey - learn from experiences through interaction to the environment

§  Emphasizes the needs and interests of the children

Ø PERENNIALISM Robert Hutchins

§  focuses on unchanging/universal truths

Ø ESSENTIALISM William Bagley - teaching the basic/essential knowledge

§  Focuses on basic skills and knowledge

Ø PROGRESSIVISM Dewey/Pestalozzi (process of development)

focuses on the whole child and the cultivation of individuality

Ø CONSTRUCTIVISM Jean Piaget

§  Focused on how humans make meaning in relation to the interaction b/w their experiences and their ideas. Nature of knowledge w/c represents an epistemological stance.

Ø SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTIONISM George Counts - recognized that education was the means of preparing people for creating his new social order

§  highlights social reform as the aim of education

 

©    ACCULTURATION - learning other culture; the passing of customs, beliefs and tradition through interaction and reading.

©    ENCULTURATION - the passing of group's custom, beliefs and traditions from one generation to the next generation

©    Convergent questions - are those that typically have one correct answer.

©    Divergent questions - also called open-ended questions are used to encourage many answers and generate greater participation of students. Higher order thinking skills; to think more creatively.

©    90 days - enrolled bills becomes a law

©    30 days - "lapse"

 

PRINCIPLES & THEORIES OF LEARNING & MOTIVATION

 

*       Psychosexual Theory/Psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud

*       Psychosocial Theory - Erik Erikson's Theory of Personality

*       Ecological Theory - Eric Brofenbrenner's Theory of Development

*       Sociohistoric Cognitive Linguistic Theory - Lev Semanovich Vygotsky

*       Cognitive Development - Jean Piaget; John Dewey; Jerome Brunner

*       Phenomenology - Abraham Maslow; Carl Rogers; Louis Raths

*       Behaviorism - Edward Thorndike; Ivan Pavlov; Burrhus Frederick Skinner

*       Moral Development - Lawrence Kohlberg

*       Ivan Pavlov - classical conditioning

*       Edward Thorndike - connectionism

*       B.F. Skinner - operant conditioning & reinforcement

*       Albert Bandura - "bobo doll" experiment; modelling; self eficacy

*       David Ausubel - Meaningful Reception Theory

*       Jerome Bruner - Discovery Learning Theory/Inquiry method

*       Wolfgang Kohler's - Insight Learning Problem

*       Richard Atkinson & Richard Shiffrin's - Information Processing Theory

*       Robert Gagne's - Cumulative Learning Theory

*       Howard Gardner - Multiple Intelligence

*       Kurt Lewin's - Field Theory/ his concept of life space

*       Brofenbrenner's - Ecological System Theory

*       Lev Vygotsky - Social Constructivism; Zond of Proximal Development (ZPD) * gap b/w actual and potential development

*       Hilda Taba - Grassroots Approach

*       Max Wertheimer - Gestalt Psychology

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