EDUP3013 Falsafah dan Pendidikan di Malaysia - Basic concepts - Importance to teachers

1. PHILOSOPHY OF
EDUCATION
• Basic Concepts of Philosophy and Philosophy of Education
• Importance of Philosophy of Education to teachers
Nur Insyirah binti Malek

2. MEANING OF PHILOSOPHY &
EDUCATION
Philosophy
•Love of wisdom – the essence for
any philosophy investigation
•Helps teachers to reflect on key
issues and concepts in education

3. MEANING OF PHILOSOPHY &
EDUCATION
Education
•Process of educating or teaching
•Any act that has a formative effect on the mind,
character or physical ability of an individual
•The process which by society deliberately
transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and
values from one generation to another.

4. BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY
METAPHYSICS
Speculative, cause-
and-effect
relationship
e.g.: What is truth?
What is mankind?
EPISTEMOLOGY
Knowledge and
beliefs
e.g.: What is
knowledge? What are
the sources of
knowledge?
AXIOLOGY
Ethics and
aesthetics
e.g.: What is
goodness? What is
beauty?
LOGIC
Differentiates
between valid and
confusing ideas
e.g.: What is good
reasoning? Not so
good reasoning?

5. PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
• The philosophy of education examines the goals, forms,
methods, and meaning of education.
• The term is used to describe both
fundamental philosophical analysis of these themes and
the description or analysis of
particular pedagogical approaches.
• The branch of applied or practical philosophy
concerned with the nature and aims of education and
the philosophical problems arising from educational
theory and practice.

6. IMPORTANCE OF PHILOSOPHY OF
EDUCATION TO TEACHERS
• Enables teachers to acquire a grasp of the conceptual
field of education and an ability to find their way
around the often contested views within that field.
• Enables teachers to understand better the conceptual
debates that involve the subjects that they are
teaching.
• Enables teachers to understand the scope and limits
of empirical research in education and the
relationships between that research and conceptual
issues in education.