The philosophy of education can be referred as the academic field of applied philosophy, or referred to one of the educational philosophies that promote a specific type or vision of education which examines the definition, goals, and the meaning of education.
As an academic field, its central subject is education and its method is those of philosophy. Which is it is either the process of education, or the discipline of the education.
Part of the discipline may be concerned with aims, forms, methods or results of the process of educating. Or it may concerns with the concepts, aims, and methods of the discipline. Example, it might study what constitutes upbringing and education, the values and norms revealed through upbringing and educational practices, the limits and legitimization of education as an academic discipline, and the relation between educational theory and practice. An academic discipline, or field of study, is a branch of knowledge that is taught and researched at the college or university level. Disciplines are defined and recognized by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned societies and academic departments or faculties to which their practitioners belong.
Philosophy of education is usually housed in departments or colleges of education. The multiple ways of conceiving education together with the multiple fields and approaches of philosophy make philosophy of education not only a very diverse field but also one that is not easily defined.
Philosophy education is the practice of teaching and learning philosophy as well as the research about it.
However, no formal criteria for when educational programs and scholarly journals form an academic discipline.
An educational philosophy is a normative (relating to an ideal standard or mode) theory of education that unifies pedagogy, curriculum, learning theory, and the purpose of education and is grounded in specific