Herbert Spencer was a 19th century British philosopher known for social Darwinism. He believed education should prepare students to survive based on Darwin's theory of evolution. He opposed public schools, favoring private competition. Spencer outlined five curriculum activities: self-preservation through science; indirect self-preservation through skills like math; rearing offspring; citizenship through history; and leisure through arts. His views on social competition and practical education still influence discussions around school choice, standardized testing, and curriculum design today.
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Experimentalism believes that things are constantly changing. It is based on the view that reality is what works right now and that goodness comes from group decisions. As a result, schools exist to discover and expand the society we live in. Students study social experiences and solve problems.
This is an outlined discussion of The Teacher as a Person in the Society and other topics in The Teaching Profession which could be of use to students who are taking the subject.
MST Course Design and Dev't
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Experimentalism believes that things are constantly changing. It is based on the view that reality is what works right now and that goodness comes from group decisions. As a result, schools exist to discover and expand the society we live in. Students study social experiences and solve problems.
This is an outlined discussion of The Teacher as a Person in the Society and other topics in The Teaching Profession which could be of use to students who are taking the subject.
There are 11 pioneers (educational mentors), who constructed their philosophies and theories of education, that formative the ideas of school curriculum and method of teaching in classroom's today.
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Comenius: The Search for a New Metho ;
Rousseau: Educating the Natural Person;
Pestalozzi: Educator of the
Senses and Emotions; Herbart: Systematizing Teaching; Froebel: The Kindergarten Movement; Spencer: Social Darwinist and Utilitarian
Educator; Dewey: Learning Through Experience; Addams: Socialized Education; Montessori: The Prepared Environment; Piaget: Developmental Growth; Freire: Liberation Pedagogy
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Learning in the Preschool Years
Traditional education typically divides content into specific segments, or subjects, such as reading, language, and mathematics. In fact, when children enter preschool, they may encounter this single-subject approach to learning for the first time, as teachers talk about getting ready for science, music, and art. For the most part, however, experiences in these subjects are not constrained by strict time schedules. Instead, in a preschool classroom with a developmentally appropriate program, in-depth explorations are valued in an environment that has been carefully prepared. For example, it is better to have children explore just a few topics "repeatedly in many different ways" rather than just touching on a wide variety. In this way, "they are able to organize what they know into deeper and more powerful theories or ideas" (Tomlinson & Hyson, 2009, p. 141).
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By the time children enter kindergarten or primary grade classrooms, adult-defined academic subjects may take on an even greater role, as periods of time are devoted to reading or literacy, language arts, writing, math, science, social studies, music, art, and physical education (kindergartens may refer to movement). While each of these subjects is important in its own right, young children—even in the primary grades—do not think about their learning in such structured ways. Rather, left to their own devices, they engage in learning experiences that "follow data trails that crisscross disciplines naturally and take the problem solver along paths that meander into unexpected, unanticipated, thought-provoking, and often uncharted domains of learning" (Audet, 2005, p. 138). In fact, curriculum integration is an approach to learning based on a child's natural impulses; it disregards subject boundaries in favor of a more holistic view of learning, allowing children to follow their natural lines of inquiry.
Curriculum Creation as a Balancing Act
Recognizing that curriculum integration may be one ideal but that traditional subjects must also be adhered to, Sue Bredekamp (1997) suggests, "The best strategy . . . is to begin with the discipline frameworks and identify the connections, the ways that curriculum can be integrated and made more meaningful for learners" (p. xvi). Furthermore, curriculum designers must always keep in mind the importance and integrity of the individual subjects.
As they create curricula at each developmental level, curriculum planners should keep the following points in mind:
Infants and toddlers are provided their own natural curriculum by their physical environment, family, and society. The role of the curriculum planner is to make the environment and experiences welcoming and positive.
Preschoolers continue to learn much from all aspects of their environments. They are also ready for expanding their learning in ways that will lead them to more formal learning later on. Curriculum planners can identify c ...
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
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The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
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2. Herbert Spencer
(THE FOUNDER OF SOCIAL DARWINISM THEORY)
OUICK FACTS
FAMOUS AS : PHILOSOPHER, BIOLOGIST, SOCIOLOGIST
NATIONALITY : BRITISH
BORN ON : 27 APRIL 1820
DIED AT AGE : 83
BORN IN : DERBY, ENGLAND
DIED ON : 08 DECEMBER 1903
INVENTIONS : PAPER CLIP
His father was a school teacher and a man of independent views. His father believed in self-education. So, he
encouraged Herbert to find out answers to his own problems. Also his father taught him physics, chemistry and
geometry. So he received a knowledge of these sciences early in life. His uncle taught him some school subjects and
at the age of seventeen he had the knowledge of an average school student.
3. Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, biologist and sociologist.
He highly contributed his expertise knowledge in ethics religion, anthropology , economics,
political theory, philosophy, biology, sociology and psychology.
He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.
He was the first person to coin the phrase “survival of the fittest”
His works were translated into many other languages of the world
including German, Italian, Spanish, French, Russian, Japanese and Chinese.
4. Social Darwinism
(Charles Darwin)
Social Darwinism is the conflict between social groups which results in the
most socially capable or fit group coming out on top as the winner, usually
in terms of influence and wealth.
According to social Darwinism, rich people would succeed and poor
people would fail.
Survival of the fittest refers to the most adaptable species being able to live
and reproduce.
5. Herbert Spencer- Social Darwinism Education
I. Theory of evolution
Herbert Spencer was known as one of the leading Social Darwinists in the late nineteenth-
early twentieth century America. As a social Darwinist, Spencer helped gain acceptance of
the theory of evolution which also became the basis for most of his books and teaching.
II. A social Theory based on Darwin
In Spencer’s work “social status” he stated that individual freedom was extremely
important and that the government should play a limited role in society especially in the
schools.
6. III.Opposition to public schools
He did not believe in the public school system. His major criticism of the
school system was that it did not prepare children to live in society.
Instead, Spencer believed in the private school system which competed for
the brightest student. Because of his belief in competition conflict and
struggle Spencer felt that the most exemplary schools would eventually
acquire the best teachers and students.
7. Principles of Teaching and Learning
He believed that people in an industrialized society needed a utilitarian education in
order to learn useful scientific skills and subjects.
Learning should be a sensory experience where a student interacts within his/her
environment ; a slow, gradual, and inductive process.
Children should be encouraged to explore and discover which would allow them to
acquire knowledge naturally.
A student should only engage in those activities that would allow him/her to survive
in society.
8. Education and Schooling
Spencer became one of the major proponents of modern curriculum
theory.
In his work “What Knowledge is of Most Worth ? ” Spencer stated that this
question needed to be answered before any curriculum was chosen or any
instruction commenced.
To achieve this advancement Spencer believed that there were five
activities necessary in curriculum.
Once again the main goal was to teach subjects that would contribute to
successful living. Spencer’s ideas concerning curriculum were widely
accepted in the United States.
9. Education and Schooling
Spencer never loved old traditions.
He wants to lead the child to a very high ideal by developing his interests.
Spencer criticizes the curriculum of his day because it lack practical utility.
In the educational system of his times adequate attention was not paid to
the future preparation of children.
Spencer identified five types of activities in the curriculum;
1. Self-preservation
2. Indirect Self-preservation
3. Rearing of Offspring
4. Citizenship
5. Leisure of Life
10. 1. Self-preservation
(feelings which warn people or animals to protect themselves from difficulties or dangers)
For picking up the art of self-preservation, Spencer recommends the study
of the sciences of physiology, hygiene, physics and chemistry.
Spencer believes that a knowledge of these subjects will help one to
preserve his health by furthering the various spontaneous activities.
11. 2. Indirect Self-preservation
Activities pertaining to indirect self-preservation are those which help one
to make a successful living.
We require the help of mathematics in various activities pertaining to our
daily life.
Geology mathematics, chemistry, physics and astrology help us in many
such vital activities.
Spencer recommends the teaching of these sciences because they prepare
us for life.
12. 3. Rearing of Offspring
(To help someone to grow up.)
Spencer wants to give the knowledge of rearing of offspring to children in the school because
it is difficult for them to rear their children properly.
Therefore, parents should be prepared for bringing up children.
4. Citizenship
Spencer desires that the child should be a worthy citizen.
He thinks that history cannot be used properly without the knowledge of science.
He has shown how history books should be written and how the various happenings should
be described.
13. 5. Leisure of Life
Spencer has a very liberal (general) outlook of life.
For this he wants to teach painting, music, sculpture, literature and poetry to the child.
But for the study of these arts, Spencer thinks that the child must study the science first,
because the various sciences are at the root of all these fine arts.
He wants to make everything dependent on sciences.
14. Influence on Educational Practices
Today
He wanted private schools to compete against each other in trying to
attract the brightest students and most capable teachers.
Spencer’s social Darwinism became very popular in the last half of the 19th
century when industrialization was changing American and Western
European societies.
The standardized testing used in the No Child Left Behind Act is a way of
introducing competition into schools, as it identifies achieving and non-
achieving schools and teachers.
Spencer would raise entry standards for students to pre-service teacher-
education program to make them more competitive.
15. Before his influences the public school claiming that they would create
monopoly for mediocrity by catering to the students of low ability, but he
opposed it.
Education today continues to be influenced by Spencer’s Social Darwinist
Theories. In fact, his curriculum activities based on human need are still
being implemented in one form or another.
His influences are still felt as education continues to discuss voucher
systems for private schools, the smaller role of government in education,
and in the stressing of teaching skills that will assist students in becoming
individuals who contribute to the good of society.
16. Several of Spencer's works are being utilized in today's most prestigious
universities.
His "Principles of Biology" is a text at Oxford University. His "Principles of
Psychology" text can be found at Harvard.
The "Study of Sociology" is Spencer's work used not only as a textbook at
Yale, but was the textbook used for the first course in Sociology in the
United States.
Sociology became a discipline in the United States because of Spencer's
impressive work.
17. Questions
What do you think about Spencer’s idea?
Do you think should we apply this in our education system?
Anyone remember his 5 curriculum activities?
AND
What do you think about his five curriculum activities?