Philosophy of Education Essay
Sharon D. Lewis
Walden University Theoretical Framework of Educational Philosophy Pragmatism is a philosophical movement that includes those who claim that an ideology or proposition is true if it works satisfactorily, that the meaning of a proposition is to be found in the practical consequences of accepting it, and that unpractical ideas are to be rejected. The pragmatic method is primarily a method of settling philosophical or spiritual disputes that would be never ending. William James argued that whenever a dispute is serious, we ought to be able to show some practical difference that must follow from one side or the other 's being right.
Progressivism is a belief that education should focus on the whole child, rather than on the content or the teacher and stresses that students should test ideas by active experimentation. Social Reconstructionism is a philosophy of education that focuses on using education to eliminate social inequities. These three theorists and three of their specific primary works by each of these theorists that will cite in my research are William James and his Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907), and The …show more content…
It can encourage teachers to reflect on their classroom practice, to gather evidence of students’ learning and engagement and to design pedagogical experiments and test their efficacy. Practitioners’ enquiries work across pragmatist, activist and interpretive paradigms and sometimes their own personal practice. It could be argued then that one of the values of practitioner enquiry is to produce dynamic case studies of educational practice. Practitioner enquiry rests on the proposition that those in practice are able to take informed intentional actions, explore their effects and form judgments of their value (Robson et al.,
Sharon D. Lewis
Walden University Theoretical Framework of Educational Philosophy Pragmatism is a philosophical movement that includes those who claim that an ideology or proposition is true if it works satisfactorily, that the meaning of a proposition is to be found in the practical consequences of accepting it, and that unpractical ideas are to be rejected. The pragmatic method is primarily a method of settling philosophical or spiritual disputes that would be never ending. William James argued that whenever a dispute is serious, we ought to be able to show some practical difference that must follow from one side or the other 's being right.
Progressivism is a belief that education should focus on the whole child, rather than on the content or the teacher and stresses that students should test ideas by active experimentation. Social Reconstructionism is a philosophy of education that focuses on using education to eliminate social inequities. These three theorists and three of their specific primary works by each of these theorists that will cite in my research are William James and his Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907), and The …show more content…
It can encourage teachers to reflect on their classroom practice, to gather evidence of students’ learning and engagement and to design pedagogical experiments and test their efficacy. Practitioners’ enquiries work across pragmatist, activist and interpretive paradigms and sometimes their own personal practice. It could be argued then that one of the values of practitioner enquiry is to produce dynamic case studies of educational practice. Practitioner enquiry rests on the proposition that those in practice are able to take informed intentional actions, explore their effects and form judgments of their value (Robson et al.,