Do you ever read philosophers dedicated to pedagogic theories or do you rely mainly on your own insights and/or base your school practices on your previous teachers? Do you follow any modern pedagogue who knows your educational system and community?
I guess we are either way influencbed by philosohpers. It could by directly reading philosophers or indirectly by getting advice from other teachers, who are influenced by philosophers or other ideas too.
Personally, I highly reccomend Dewey, Bloom, Piaget or (more recently) Richard Pring. Certainly there is a wide variety of work to choose.
John Dewey's principles and theories of philosophy in education has influenced my pedagogical strategies and approaches.
Philosophers - whether in education or in other fields - are important. No question about that.
However, education is a practice, not a theory. Therefore, you should pay attentinto the very group, to its dynamics and contingencies (each group is different). I personally let myself be guided by the group rather than by a preconceived idea. Hence, you can adapt, you can change the map, you can shift emphasis, and the like.
The very professor or teacher is an adaptive stance, very much as the course or seminar.
Education has always been influenced by philosophical theories, that is why, I believe, they should be seen integrated. One complements the other.
Best wishes,
Litart
Dear Dr. Vilemar Magalhaes , interesting discussion topic and I am following the question to learn more about the feelings of other scientists.
I have gone through, and in general they are stressing on "philosophy of education is ought to be a guide to educational practice". This means that one of the roles of philosophy of education is to construct a norm, which when applied to educational problems, will be frequently concerned with establishing standards and formulating goals. Such goals and standards are influenced by philosophical assumptions a person has. Every teacher, for instance, approaches teaching from a philosophical position whether consciously or unconsciously.
I do not totally stick on the norms and principles set in the Philosophy of education guidelines. I usually following my own philosophy of education that enables conducive environment and interactive means of knowledge exchange between the student.
Generally every human beings who prefer to live his life with honest , & moral code for which a philosophical thinking & his way of life come to his thinking where his mind & brain both together work in the calm & quite manner in his thinking process . When your life has accepted the philosophical approach in his way of thinking as a teacher he would certainly besides his own study for the students he may translate his view of thinking which may by offering certain talks which may certainly help & influence the student for his future line of action .
This is my personal opinion
Ah, the old question of philosophy/theory and practice! Let's try to get beyond it. I don't think there exists any (educationa) practice that is not somehow informed by a theory/philosophy
One always has some sort of idea of what one wants to do and how. Ideas are derived from theory, one way or antother. However, not all educators think of it that way, and many of them think of themselves as being mainly practically orientaded, little bothered by theory/philosophy. But alas, the "point of nowhere", i.e. neutrality does not exist. We do well if we try to clarify which values and ideas it is that inform our practice. This will, among other things, make us more robust as educators.
Our ethos becomes clearer, not least to ourselvse. It becomes clearer what it is we want to obtain and how. Also, we do not as easily fall prey to top-down decisions, some of which less profitable for students and educaters than others; because we know our own ethos, we know what to accept because we think it is useful and, why not, GOOD. On the other hand, a philosophical/theoretical consciousness will also help us to understand why we see some behaviour, methods etc as unhelpful or downright wrong. Such consciousness will therefore i.e. be a "practical" tool that helps us to deject what should be dejected.
I was influenced by Piaget and Dewey while in teacher training. However, when I first started teaching my day to day activities became priority. No time to think philosophy. As I moved up philosophy came back. So I say philosophlies work at different times at different level and they are useful. But you cannot follow all philosophis that you become aware of. You become friend of some and say good bye to others.
Yes, a lot, As a lecturer I have talked about praxial philosophy of music education and I have tried to teach new knowledge through doing music.
Philosophy and theories based on philosophy have been key. Pedagogy of the oppressed, communicative approach and needs based teaching have been major planks of my practice.
1.Yes education is a practice
2. The best practice is a good theory
3. The best philosophers are young children who ask the core questions
4. Philosophy of education often corrupts itself when it becomes, the promulgation of ideologies
5. One of the most important and unfortunately short-lived schools of educational philosophy was the linguistic analytic approaches of Israel Scheffler and RS Peters in the mid- late 20th century.
6. What philosophers call " the prior question " is one the core qualities of thinking .
7. Philosoohy and philosophy of education are not courses - they are processes and dynamics that should accompany us always
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