The document discusses different philosophies of education: 1) Academic rationalism which focuses on developing intellect and humanistic values through subject matter. 2) Social and economic efficiency which emphasizes practical and economic needs of learners and society. 3) Learner-centeredness which stresses individual needs of learners and developing self-reflection and critical thinking. 4) Social reconstructionism which focuses on addressing social injustices and inequality through education. 5) Cultural pluralism which emphasizes preparing students to participate in multiple cultures, not just the dominant one.

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Okmi Astuti
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2.  People are usually motivated to pursue certain
goals.
it means that by defining goals, people have
targets to be achieved and be motivated to do
any ways to achieve the targets.
 The goals in teaching improve the effectiveness
of teaching and learning.
 A program will be effective that its goals are
sound and clearly described.

3.  Is there any value in teaching students a foreign
language at school if they have no practical need for
it?
 Should a language program for immigrants just
teach practical life skills or should it seek to prepare
immigrants to confront racial and other forms pf
prejudice?
 So on.

4.  1. academic rationalism
 2. social and economic efficiency
 3. learner-centeredness
 4. social reconstructionism
 5. cultural pluralism

5.  It stresses the intrinsic value of the subject matter
and its role in developing the learner’s
intellect, humanistic values, and rationality.
 It is sometimes used to justify certain foreign
language in school curricula where they are taught
as social studies.
 It is also sometimes used for literature or American
or British culture.

6.  The maintenance and transmission through
education of the wisdom and culture of previous
generations.
 The development for the elite of generalizable
intellectual capacities and critical faculties.
 The maintenance of stands through an inspectorate
and external examination boards controlled by the
universities.

7.  It emphasizes the practical needs of learners
and society and the role of an educational
program in producing learners who are
economically productive.

8.  Critics: such a view is reductionist and
presupposes that learners’ needs can be
identified with a predetermined set of skills
and objectives.

9.  It stresses the individual needs of
learners, the role of individual
experience, and the need to develop
awareness, self-reflection, critical
thinking, learner strategies, and other
qualities and skills.

10.  Individualized teaching
 Learning through practical operation or doing
 Laissez faire- no organized curricula
 Creative self-expression by students
 Practically oriented activities- needs of
society
 Not teaching-directed learning

11.  It stresses the roles of schools and learners
can should play in addressing social injustices
and inequality.
 Curriculum development is not a neutral
process.

12.  Freire, 1972: teachers and learners are a joint
process of exploring and constructing
knowledge.
 In addition, students are not the objects of
knowledge.
 Therefore, they must find ways of
recognizing and resisting.

13.  It emphasizes school should prepare students
to participate in several different cultures, not
just the dominant one which means none
culture group is superior to others.