PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF EDUCATION (BULLETS)

·       The Four Pillars of Education all started with the report entitled Learning the Treasure Within of the International Commission of Education for the Twenty- first Century, chaired by Jacques Delors in      1996.

·       Learning to Know implies how to learn by developing one's concentration, memory skills and ability to think; acquiring the instrument of understanding.

·       Learning to Do represents the skillful, creative and discerning application of knowledge.

·       To perform a job or work, the learning to do must be fulfilled. This entails the acquisition of competence that enables people to deal with a variety of situations, and to work in teams.

·       Learning to Live Together is vital in building a genuine and lasting culture of peace in the world.

·       A wide range of skills is necessary for learning to live together: self-control, handling emotions, communications, interpretation of behaviors, critical thinking, relationship building and cooperation, negotiation, mediation and refusal, problem solving and decision making.

·       Learning to Be refers to the role of education in developing all the dimensions of the complete person: to achieve the physical, intellectual, emotional and ethical integration of the individual into a complete man.

·       Gender and Development or GAD is an approach on socially constructed basis of the difference between men and women and emphasized the need to challenge the existing gender roles and relations.

·       Gender socialization is a process by which norms, roles and expectations in relation to gender are learned by men and women.

·       Gender stereotype is a form of prejudgement, bias or limitation given to roles and expectations of males and females.

·       The primary goal of Multicultural education is to transform the school so that  male and female students, exceptional students, and students from diverse cultural, social class, racial and ethnic groups experience an equal opportunity to learn.

·       Induction is reasoning that is done through the process of inferring a general law or principle from the observation of particular instances to a general conclusion.

·       Deduction is reasoning through a process which is the reverse of induction that is from a general principle to particulars included within the scope of that principle.

·       Dialectic is a means of discovering the truth by proceeding from an assertion or thesis to a denial or antithesis and finally reconciling the two into synthesis.

·       Human Act proceeds from the deliberate free will of man.

·       Acts of Man are acts that do not proceed from the deliberate free will of man. These are sometimes instinctive.



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