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Formulating Your Philosophy of Education: Activity 1 Do This Exercise. Read and Follow The Instruction

This document provides an activity to help determine one's educational philosophy. It includes a questionnaire with 25 statements about educational approaches to rate from 1 to 4. The statements represent progressivism, perennialism, existentialism, behaviorism, essentialism, constructivism, and linguistic philosophy. Based on the results, the author identifies as an existentialist educator who believes the teacher's role is to help students determine their own essence by exposing them to life's paths and creating an environment for free choice.

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Formulating Your Philosophy of Education: Activity 1 Do This Exercise. Read and Follow The Instruction

This document provides an activity to help determine one's educational philosophy. It includes a questionnaire with 25 statements about educational approaches to rate from 1 to 4. The statements represent progressivism, perennialism, existentialism, behaviorism, essentialism, constructivism, and linguistic philosophy. Based on the results, the author identifies as an existentialist educator who believes the teacher's role is to help students determine their own essence by exposing them to life's paths and creating an environment for free choice.

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Formulating your Philosophy of Education

“Philosophy is vital only when the questions are mine and so is the struggle
towards answers.”
- “ W. Luijpen”
Activity 1
Do this exercise. Read and follow the instruction.
An Exercise
To determine your educational philosophy, find out to which philosophy you adhere. To what
extent does each statement apply to you? Rate yourself 4 if you agree with the
statement always,3 if you agree but not always,2 if you agree sometimes and 1 if you
don’t agree at all.
Statements 1 2 3 4
1. There is no substitute for concrete experience in learning. /
2. The focus of education should be the ideas that are relevant /
today as when they were first conceived.
3. Teachers must not force their students to learn the subject matter /
if it does not interest them.
4. Schools must develop students’ capacity to reason by stressing /
on the humanities.

5. In the classroom, students must be encouraged to interact with /


one another to develop social virtues such as cooperation and
respect.
6. Students should read and analyze the Great Books, the /
creative works of history’s finest thinkers and writers.
7. Help students expand their knowledge by helping them apply their /
previous experiences in solving new problems.
8. Our course of study should be general, not specialized, liberal, /
not vocational, humanistic, not technical.
9. There is no universal, inborn human nature. We are born and /
exist and then we ourselves freely determine our essence.
10. Human beings are shaped by their environment. /
11. Schools should stress on the teaching of basic skills. /
12. Change of environment can change a person. /
13. Curriculum should emphasize on the traditional disciplines such /
as Math, Natural Science, History, Grammar and Literature.
14. Teacher cannot impose meaning, students make meaning of /
what they are taught.
15. Schools should help individuals accept themselves as /
unique individuals and accept responsibility for their
thoughts, feelings and actions
16. Learners produce knowledge based on their experience. /
17. For the leaner to acquire the basic skills, he must go through the /
rigor and discipline of serious study.
18. The teacher and the school head must prescribe what /
is most important for the students to learn.
19. The truth shines in an atmosphere of genuine dialogue /
20. A learner must be allowed to learn at his own pace. /
21. The learner is not a blank slate but brings past experiences and /
cultural factors to learning situation.
22. The classroom is not a place where teachers pour knowledge /
into empty minds of students.
23. The learner must be taught how to communicate his /
ideas and feelings.
24. To understand the message from his students, the /
teacher must listen not only to what his students are saying but
also to what they are not saying.
25. An individual is what he chooses to become not /
dictated by his environment.

Interpreting your Scores


If you have 2 answers of 2/4 in numbers
1,3,5,7- you are more of a progressivist
2,4,6,8- you are more of a perennialist
9,15,20,25- you are more of an existentialist
10,12- you are more of a behaviorist
11,13,17,18- you are more of an essentialist
14, 16, 21, 22- you are more of a
constructivist
19,23,24 – you are more of a linguistic philosopher
My Philosophy of education as a Secondary Education Teacher

As the result of this Formulating the Philosophy of Education activity, my


Philosophy of Education as a Secondary Education Teacher is being an existentialist
educator who believe that encouraging students is the key to create their own
meaning for life. Believing that the teacher’s role is to help students their own
essence by exposing them to various paths they make in life and creating an
environment in which they may freely choose their own preferred way.

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