Dear Elangbam Chitra Devi,

In my opinion, for higher education, teachers should be careers advisers for students, providing them with practical knowledge to work in the future.

Dear Elangbam Chitra Devi,

In my opinion, for higher education, teachers should be careers advisers for students, providing them with practical knowledge to work in the future.

Thank you sir for giving your opinion.

Thank you sir for sharing your ideas in details.

Your philosophy of education starting from the curriculum framework, methodology of teaching concern subject, consideration of social background as well as individual differences, idea of co-orporative learning, use of different teaching/learning aids up to evaluation of students are really great. It can be seen clearly that in higher education imphasis should be given on the development of the subject but still the concept of learner centered should be made compulsory.

Thank you very much.

Thank you Dr Uche Nnolim for sharing your experiences.

Science and engineering subjects requires learning by doing and also study of real world problem not only provides better understanding of the concern subject but also co-relation among different subjects which is of great importance.

Yes, of course, learning comes first before sharing to others.

Thank you for sharing your ideas.

The philosophy of higher education should serve the society and graduate cadres in line with the needs of society. The number of graduates should not exceed the capacity of the labor market, so that the most graduates will be unemployed

Saying it in a very short and simple way, the philosophy of all education, and of higher education in particular, should be "functionalism". By this I mean education which produces results hat solve the problems and meets the needs of the society of which the educated is a member. Indeed the growing unemployment rate is the product of non-functional education. This explains why I do not approve research topics for my graduate students until they can convince me on which practical need or problem of the society the findings of the research can solve.

Dr. Mike EDUNG

University of Uyo, Nigeria.

Thank you Dr Michael Edung for sharing the concept and importance of functionalism in higher education.

I think the philosophy of education should include educational games. When I teach philosophy of law, I have four mock trials spaced evenly throughout the course of the semester, such that each student in the seminar gets to be either a prosecutor or a defense attorney once in the term. When I teach the history of Christianity, I have a mock "Second Diet of Worms" fictionally held in 1540 where I play Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, and each student plays a different reformer and has to convince me that their religious convictions should be the official position of the Holy Roman Empire. These games cause students to take part in the learning process and to permanently absorb knowledge.

Thank you so much Dr Kirk MacGregor for sharing the valuable concept of educational games with nice explanation.

With best regards

Student-centered philosophies – Understand the needs of students, and teach accordingly within the classroom.

These philosophies focus more on training individual students and place more emphasis on the individuality of students and helping them to realize their potential.

A student-centered classroom may be less rigid or structured, less concerned about past teaching practices and drilling academics, and more focused on training students for success in an ever-changing world. Students and teachers typically decide together what should be learned, as well as how this can best be achieved.

Student-centered philosophies - may be of three types: progressivism, social reconstructionism, and existentialism.

Read: http://www.theedadvocate.org/philosophies-education-3-types-student-centered-philosophies/

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Thank you so much Dr Asit Sir for sharing the importance of student centered philosophies and the link.

With best regards

Philosophy of higher education is concerned with specific problems arising from the existence of universities and higher education institutions. Such problems include the specific aims of a university education, what are the differences between a university education and other (non)-formal aspects of education, the conflict between the faculties (or, in a more modern understanding, the hierarchy between academic disciplines), academic freedom, social mission of the university, the relation between teaching and research, Bildung, the (academic) crisis of the humanities, the production of knowledge, the kind(s) of thinking which university study leads to, the collective practice of study, education as a commons, the public role of the universities,  neoliberalism in the academia, etc.

https://philpapers.org/browse/philosophy-of-higher-education

Thank you so much Dr Mohamed for the valuable contribution and the source.

With best regards

Hello,

I personally think that Piagian philosophy of cognitive development is a proper candidate for improving the conditions of higher education. He believes that knowledge is constructed by the learners and is not the result of passive reception. The reason is that much learning takes place in social interaction rather than just working with objects alone like rote learning.Such a view is consistent with Vygotsky's social constructivism and with Gadamer's view who assumes that " it is a mistake to think of knowledge as something happening outside the traditions in which we are brought up and through which we see the world". On this basis, higher education should consider social epistemology as well as social forces and practices dominating the formation of knowledge on the one hand, and the importance of locally situated , locally developed knowledge on the other hand. By considering the mechanisms of the mind and their role in shaping of knowledge and by preparing the ground for the learners to test what they have learnt against the world of sensory experience, the higher education can actualize a system of education founded on social justice.

Thank you so much Dr Reza for the nice contribution with detail philosophical ideas of learning theories. Its really a great pleasure to have the knowledge of real learning through social interaction. I highly appreciate the concept "higher education should consider social epistemology as well as social forces and practices dominating the formation of knowledge on the one hand, and the importance of locally situated , locally developed knowledge on the other hand" .

With best regards