22. It is the study of general and
fundamental problems, such
as those connected with
existence, knowledge, values,
reason, mind, and language.
PHILOSOPHY
25. PHILOSOPHER
A philosopher is a person who
practices or investigates
philosophy. The term
philosopher comes from the
Ancient Greek philosophos,
meaning 'lover of wisdom'
42. METAPHYSICS-
study of reality and
existence
EPISTEMOLOGY- study
of knowledge
LOGIC - study of the
principles of correct reasoning
BRANCHES OF
PHILOSOPHY
AXIOLOGY – study of
values
49. EXISTENTIALISM People are free to
choose what to
make of their lives
and their individual
passions are what
drive them.
50. EXISTENTIALISM
Why Teach?
The concern of Existentialists:
• Help students
understand and
appreciate themselves.
• To be taught how to
accept complete
responsibility for their
thoughts , feeelings and
actions.
51. EXISTENTIALISM
Why Teach?
The existentialist teacher’s
role:
• To help students define
their own essence.
- by exposing them to various
paths they take in life.
- by creating an environment
in which they freely choose
their own preffered way.
52. EXISTENTIALISM
Why Teach?
The existentialist teacher’s
role:
* Since feeling is not
divorced from reason in
decision-making, the
existentialist demands the
education of the whole
person, “not just the mind”
53. EXISTENTIALISM
What Teach?
• Students are given a wide
variety of options from
which to choose from.
• The humanities, however,
are given tremendous
emphasis to “provide
students with a vicarious
experience that will help
unleash their own creativity
and self-expression.
54. EXISTENTIALISM
What Teach?
• Teacher – helps students
define their essence.
• Holistic development –
make good decisions
• Learner - Centered
- student’s interests and
needs
- students – emphasis not
the curriculum.
55. EXISTENTIALISM
How to Teach?
• Teachers should not
impose values too since
values are personal.
• Learning is self-paced
and self-directed
• Teachers are merely
facilitators
58. ESSENTIALISM Why Teach?
• Because there is
already a life prepared
for everyone, the role
of the teachers is to
teach learners the basic
basic knowledge, skills
and values.
59. ESSENTIALISM Why Teach?
• Traditional approach
or Back to Basic
approach that
emphasizes the basic
skills or the
fundamental 4 R’s.
61. ESSENTIALISM Why Teach?
• Teacher-centered everything
comes from the teacher.
• Teachers – fountain of
knowledge, paragon of
virtues.
• Mastery of subject matter.
• Rely on the prescribed
textbooks.
66. BEHAVIORISM
How to teach?
• Teachers create a classroom
atmosphere/classroom climate
that is conducive to learning.
• Physical Climate: light,
temperature, arrangement of
furniture, size and quantity of
visual aids.
• Psychological Climate: feeling
of students in the presence of the
teachers and their classmate –
respected, welcomed, supported?
67. BEHAVIORISM
How to teach?
• Teachers ought to make
the lesson as clear and
interesting as possible
to capture and hold the
learners’ attention.
68. BEHAVIORISM
How to teach?
• Power of positive
reinforcement and
appropriate incentives
to eliminate negative
ones.
- Tangible
- Intangible
69. BEHAVIORISM
How to teach?
• Power of positive
reinforcement and
appropriate incentives
to eliminate negative
ones.
- Tangible
- Intangible
70. PERENNIALISM
Perennialism is a
teacher-centered
educational
philosophy that
focuses on
everlasting ideas and
universal truths.
71. PERENNIALISM
ROBERT HUTCHINS &
MORTIMER ADLER
• Ageless, Eternal,
Unchanged
• Truth – Universal does not
depend on circumstances
of time, place, and person
(transcendent truths and
values)
72. PERENNIALISM
Why Teach?
• We are all rational
animals. Schools
should, therefore,
develop the students’
rational and moral
powers.
73. PERENNIALISM
What Teach?
• According to Aristotle, if
we neglect the students’
reasoning skills we
deprive them of the
ability to use their higher
faculties to control their
passions and appetites.
74. PERENNIALISM
Why Teach?
• The perennialist
curriculum is a universal
one on the view that all
human beings possess the
same essential nature.
76. PERENNIALISM
Why Teach?
• What the perennialist
teachers teach are lifted
from the Great Books.
• History, religion, literature
(Past ideas-relevant)
Understand the great work
of civilization.
• Curriculum based on
recurrent themes.
77. PROGRESSIVISM
Progressivism is a
philosophy of education
that emphasizes the need
for students to learn
through their own
experiences and be
actively involved in their
own learning process
78. PROGRESSIVISM JOHN DEWEY
“Learning by Doing”
• Contrasted – essentialism
and perennialism.
• Change and Growth
• Learners enlightened and
intelligent to fully live
NOW.
79. PROGRESSIVISM Why Teach?
• Progressivist teachers
teach to develop
learners into becoming
enlightened and
intelligent citizens of a
democratic society.
80. PROGRESSIVISM Why Teach?
• This group of teachers
teach learners so they
may live life fully
NOW not to prepare
them for adult life.
81. PROGRESSIVISM What to Teach?
• The progressivists are
identified with a need-based
and relevant curriculum.
• This is a curriculum that
“responds to students’
needs and relate to students
personal lives and
experiences.”
82. PROGRESSIVISM What to Teach?
• Progressivists accept the
impermanence of life and
the inevitability of change.
• Change is the only thing
that does not change.
83. PROGRESSIVISM How to Teach?
• Book learning is no
substitute for actual
experience.
• One experiential teaching
method that progressivist
teachers heavily rely on is
the problem-solving method.
84. PROGRESSIVISM How to Teach?
• Methods: “hands-on-
minds-on” teaching
methodologies such as
field trips, games, and
puzzles.
85. CONSTRUCTIVISM JEAN PIAGET
• He identified the process
of assimilation and
accommodation that are
key in this interaction as
individuals construct
new knowledge from
their experience.
88. CONSTRUCTIVISM Why Teach?
Constructivist sees to
develop intrinsically
motivated and independent
learners adequately equip
with learning skills for
them to be able to construct
knowledge and make
meaning of them.
89. CONSTRUCTIVISM What to Teach?
• The learners are taught
how to learn.
• They are taught learning
processes and skills such as
searching, critiquing and
evaluating information,
drawing inferences posting
questions out of the
information provided.
90. CONSTRUCTIVISM How to Teach?
• The constructivist
classroom is
interactive. It
promotes dialogical
exchange of ideas
among learners and
between teachers and
learners.