BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY THAT

BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY THATINPACT OF EDUCATION

Source: Becoming A Teacher, pp.81-83

Six main branches of educational philosophy may influence your personal philosophy of education.

BRANCH OF PHILOSOPHYCENTRAL BELIEFSRELEVANCE TO EDUCATION

Metaphysics concerned with explaining, rationally and comprehensively, the nature of reality

is concerned with the nature of being the school curriculum is based on what we know of reality

Epistemology focus on knowledge, what is true, and how we know what we know

studies ways of knowing:

1. Knowing based on Authority

2. Knowing based on divine revelation

3. Knowing based on empiricism/ experience

4. Knowing based on reason and logical analysis

5. Knowing based on intuition teachers need to determine what is true, and what is theoretical, about what they teach

Axiology concerned with values go beyond concerns about the quantity of what is taught to consider the quality of life that becomes possible because of what a person knows

Ethics focus on the what is good and evil, right/wrong, just/unjust teacher must face the ethical dilemmas that are a part of classroom life

Aesthetics concerned with the values related to beauty and art how you address esthetics in all areas of the curriculum

Logic deals with the process of reasoning and identifies rules that will enable the thinker to reach valid conclusions through inductive ( moving from the specific to the general) and deductive reasoning (moving from the general to the specific) consider the role of discovery (inductive) teaching in your classroom consider how/ when you will use Socratic methods for lessons