Philosophy of roussoueu

1. Regional Institute of
Education
(National Council of Educational Research and
Training)
Paper- Basics in Education
Unit- III (Educational thinkers and their
contributions)
Topic- Jean Jacques Rousseau
Under the guidance of- Dr. R Sethy
Group- Roll no. 12 to 22

2. Contents
 Introduction
 Principles of education
 Aims of education
 Views on discipline
 Principles of teaching
 Teacher student relationship
 Curriculum
 Contribution to the society
 Conclusion

3. Introduction
 A philosopher,
influencer and
novelist.
 Born in Geneva,
Switzerland on June
28,1712 and died on
July 2 1778 at
Ermenonville, France.
 His mother died shortly
after childbirth.
 His father was a poor
watchmaker.
Jean Jacques Rousseau, (1712-
1778)

4. Principles of education
 Natural development of child
 Opposed bookish knowledge
 Did not favoured formal education
 Promoted gender based education
 Emphasis on the training of senses

5. Rousseau’s aims of
education
 Attainment of fullest natural growth leading to
balanced, harmonious and useful life.
 Prepares the child to live life to the fullest.
 To provide the child with strength to attain well
regulated freedom.
 Period of instruction, labor and study.
 Training of heart, to make the child loving &
social.
 Religious, moral and social education is
recommended.
 Sex instinct is to be sublimated by redirection in
work and activity.

6. Rousseau’s view on
discipline
 A free atmosphere can enable the child
to develop his inborn and innate
capacities.
 Nature of the children are essentially
good, let them act freely.
 No punishment to the child.
 Discipline by natural consequences.
“Children should never receive punishment as
such; it should always come as natural
consequence of their fault.”

7. Principles of teaching
 Lays stress on direct experience of
things and on the principle of learning
by doing.
 Advocates the adoption of the
heuristic attitude
 Provide sense training
“teach by doing whenever you can
and only fall back on words when
doing is out of the question.”

8. Teacher student
relationship
 Less emphasis on teacher’s role.
 Teacher should provide suitable
opportunities of learning to pupils.
 Teacher should give full freedom to
commit mistakes and learn.
 Teacher is not the source of information.
 Teacher must act as a motivator for
learners. Continued……..

9.  Children should not be directed but
guided.
 Teacher must not think of keeping the
children in control as they need full
freedom to explore and learn.
 Must understand the nature of the
children to be able to control his emotional
reactions.
 Teacher should protect the children from
depression, mental conflicts and
disorders of all kinds.
 Imparting knowledge is not the main
motto of teaching but nurturing the pupil
with love and modify their behaviour.

10. Curriculum
 It is based on the nature of the
child, his interests, need,
ability etc.
 It lays stress on subjects that
are helpful in self
preservation.
 It stress basic sciences.
 It emphasizes physical and
health education.

11. Contributions
 As society developed, man’s
freedom became constrained.
 Man is morally responsible to the
society either created or accepted.
 Opposed the concept of private
wealth and favored using it to meet
necessities. This demonstrates his
proclivity for socialism.
Continued…...

12.  Education should be
obtained from people,
things, and nature
rather than formal
education.
 Children and adults
should be treated
differently.
 He's known as a
"Thinker of Paradoxes."
 His ideas may be
considered “socialist”,
"democratic" or
“totalitarian”.

13. Contribution to the Society
 Influenced movements like the
Enlightenment, Romanticism, Reform
Pedagogy (Montessori and others),
and Marxism.
 His reasoning was, however, motivated
by a deliberate strategy.
 We can conclude Rousseau's
contradictions by viewing him as a
hunter-gatherer.

14. Implications
 Emphasized learning by doing.
 Opposed the concept of study and
memorization.
 Family association is the only natural
association.
 society must devolve from a social
contract.

15. Conclusions
 Exerted great influence on education in
its manifold aspects.
 Main aim was to destroy traditionalism.
 He asserted that education is a natural
process.
 He declared that a child is not a miniature
adult.
 His instincts ought to be respected, his
personality, individuality should be kept
intact.

16. References
 Collins, M. P. (1976). “Rousseau’s philosophy (or
philosophies?) of education”, The Irish Journal of
Education, 1976, x , 2, pp 51-80
 Deivam M. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his
contribution in educational philosophy,
Department of Education, the Gandhigram Rural
Institute.
 Western educationist “Jean-Jacques Rousseau”
and his contribution in educational philosophy
 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-
Jacques-Rousseau
 http://www.newfoundations.com/GALLERY/Rous
seau.html
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-
Jacques_Rousseau