TEACHING PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT Teaching Philosophy Statement November 8‚ 2011 Cassandra (Cassie) Moderegger 1 TEACHING PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT 2 Horton Hears a Who! I feel that so often children are not viewed as equals to the rest of society. Their abilities and intellect are many times underestimated and opinions sometimes silenced. Children are human beings‚ people with amazing thoughts and creative ideas with a desire to tackle any task put in front of them. As a future
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PHILOSOPHY Philosophy is divided into many sub-fields. These include epistemology‚ logic‚ metaphysics‚ ethics‚ and aesthetics. Epistemology is concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge‚ such as the relationships between truth‚ belief‚ and theories of justification. Logic is the study of the principles of correct reasoning. Metaphysics is the study of the most general features of reality‚ such as existence‚ time‚ the relationship between mind and body‚ objects and their properties‚ wholes
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I. The Psychology and Philosophy of Education of Ayn Rand as presented in ‘The Comprachicos’ Ayn Rand writes mainly about the status quo and what and who is to be blamed for such circumstances. She talks of a miseducation so ingenious that when one reads about it one simply gets baffled as he is forced to look into his own experiences from the home‚ to the school‚ to the Church and in the province or in the city. One can expect to see various parallelisms with how he is brought up and
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The discussion below explores Paulo Freire’s philosophy on emancipatory learning or education whereby by he uses the term ‘banking education’ to describe the social representation of oppression and develops an emancipatory ‘problem-posing’ education in the form of conscientization projects related to social transformation. In this text the key words are emancipated and empowered. Emancipate means to liberate or free someone or something and to empower to allow someone or enable them to do what they
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Beauvoir’s discussion of woman as an absolute Other leads her to consider the diverse ways women have been represented (or mythologized) by men. How did her chapter on Myths increase your awareness of your own experiences as mythologizer and mythologized. Introduction Beauvoir is famous for her philosophical and existentialist classification of women. In her works‚ womanhood and femininity are seen from different lenses – as being an agent in the society (an absolute Other) and as a subject of
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1 Prepared by Kamani Siriwardane PGDE- Educational Psychology Educational Theories Piaget (Jean Piaget) Theory of cognitive development Theory is based on observation of his own three children . “Intelligence is an assimilative process” Maturation Activity Social transition Primary schema The main stages of cognitive development Sensory motor stage(0-2) Pre-operational stage(2-7) Concrete operational stage(7-11) Formal operational stage (11-15) Bruner
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Part I. INTRODUCTION CONCEPTS Definition. What is Philosophy? There are a number of definitions of philosophy given by many thinkers and they vary according to their interests and orientations. Generally‚ philosophy is regarded as perhaps the most obstruse and abstract of all subjects that seems apart from ordinary life. Although quiet a number of people may think of it as a being remote from every normal interest‚ it may be inferred that all of us have some philosophical views‚ whether we are
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Lesson 1 : Man: The Crown of Creation ***A Christian Philosophy of Man In order to break down the complexities of man‚ one must enumerate and dissect the many facets and relationships of man’s being. ***Concept of Man as the Crown of Creation Man is considered as the crown of all God’s creation because he is the only created thing made in the “image” and “likeness” of God and‚ therefore‚ uniquely distinct in his existence. No other creature is like man; he is one of a kind. Only man has been
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2012 10:53pm Four of ten fresh graduates and young jobseekers are not hired because they lack three key qualities—critical thinking‚ initiative‚ and effective communication skills—according to the People Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP) at a job fair in Makati on Friday. “Each industry would have some sort of minimum standard. Not having met that is proof that the students don’t meet that standard. The study showed that 40 percent of fresh graduates do not immediately get hired
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My philosophy of education is to develop the whole personality of the child through motor‚ sensory and intellectual activity. In order to understand how children move between stages‚ teacher should maintain a well resourced and stimulating classroom effectively when carrying out the task. As a Montessori directress‚ dedicate in my efforts to support the well being and development of all children are essential. In the Montessori environments directress always well prepare to maintain child’s dignity
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