2. Existentialism and its
Implication in
Education
• Why Teach?
• What To Teach?
• How To Teach?
Role of Teacher
and the Role of
Students
Discipline School
Table of Contents
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3. Existentialism and its Implication in
Education
• Focuses on the students freedom and
agency to choose their future.
• Existentialist educators believe there is no
God or higher power guiding their students.
• Good education focus on individuality.
• Existentialist encourage teachers to modify
their attitudes toward education.
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4. Why Teach? • Education should help man to make him
human, willing to stand alone.
• To enrich man’s mind so that he is responsible
in his own eyes and in the eyes of others.
• Intellectual development is the fundamental
aim of education.
• To enable the individual to lead a good and
authentic life.
• To enable the individual to make his own
choices.
5. • To develop introspective power.
• To develop integrity among students that
they feel responsible for making their
choices.
• To enable the individual to accept death
gracefully as a natural phenomena and
inspire him to do good thing to earn the taste
of noble death.
• To enable the individual to face struggle and
failure so that he knows them to be a part of
life.
Why Teach?
6. What to Teach?
In existentialist curriculum students
are given:
• A wide variety of option from
which to choose from
• Give emphasis on learning
experiences
7. - They place more emphasis upon
Humanities
- Less emphasis on Social Sciences
- History
- Science
- Religion
8. How to Teach? • Socratic Method
• Case Study Method
• Scientific/ Experimentation
• Question and Answer Method
• There is no place for group
dynamics. Focus is on
individualism.
9. Role of Teacher
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• To help students to be original and
authentic.
• To teach the students to accept only that as
true which convinces them and not which is
forced upon them.
• To make the students understand that at
times when their choices and decisions take
them to some harm, then they are not to
blame the environment, friends, family or
God.
• To create an environment in which students
freely choose their own preferred way.
10. Role of Students • Child centered.
• The students must strive to achieve the
goals, he has fixed for himself as for him,
his potential accomplishment is of supreme
importance.
• To acquire values for hard work and make
the best of it.
• To understand that lazy, self- less, and
improper life is not worth living.
11. Discipline
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• It gives complete freedom to the
child.
• Freedom is required for natural
development.
• Individual is responsible for the
consequences of his choices.
12. School
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• A place where students can
exercise their free will.
• It is a place of self discovery.
• Home and school are equally
responsible for the education of
the child.
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