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Fundamentals of Education

Philosophical Foundations of Education

• What is for you to be a good teacher?
• What characteristics should a teacher have?
• Do you consider that any person could be an education professional?

Let's reflect:

• Emotions
• Cognitive knowledge
• Personal relationships
• Effective communication

All teaching is a mix of art and science.

Science of Teaching

Value systems

Nature of knowledge

Epistemology

Theories

How do students learn?

Epistemology

The theory of knowledge especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope, and the distinction between justified belief and opinion.

Epistemology (noun)

Methodology (Details of exactly how to collect data)

Epistemology (How we should investigate the world)

Methodology (How we should best collect data)

Ontology (How we view the world)

Research Methodology Treee

• What is knowledge?
• How do we human beings carry out reasoning?
• How do we verify that what we have understood is true?

Education, discipline that is concerned with methods of teaching and learning in schools or school-like environments as opposed to various nonformal and informal means of socialization.Education can be thought of as the transmission of the values and accumulated knowledge of a society. In this sense, it is equivalent to what social scientists term socialization or enculturation.

Education

• School curriculum
• Connection between disciplines
• Processes of knowledge
• Cognitive subject and object to be known
• Teacher training
• School context
• Social meaning of education

Epistemology of Education

How do we know that we know?

Epistemological Approaches

Possibilities of obtaining knowledge

Criticism

Skepticism

Dogmatism

Epistemological Currents

Knowledge is studied as a phenomenon about why the facts occur around us and how they work.

Pragmatism

Relativism

Subjectivism

Skepticism

Epistemological Currents

Apriorism

Structuralism

Possibilities: Origin of knowledge

Rationalism

Empiricism

Epistemological Currents

Phenomenalism

Realism

Objectivism

Possibilities: Essence of Knowledge

Idealism

Subjectivism

Epistemological Currents

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