A branch of philosophy that examines questions of how we know what we know
What is Esiptomology
An educational philosophy that suggests that nature is constant, therefore education should be the same for everyone
What is Perenialism
Gaining knowledge through seeing, hearing, smelling, or touching
What is the senses
Truth as ideas
What is idealism
Philosophy in which each student decides what he/she should learn and when they should learn it.
What is Existentialism?
others say while looking at an oak tree you can perceive it to be anything you want, but at the end of the day, it is still an oak tree.
What is Metaphysics
This suggests that critical, or "basic" knowledge and skills are the first things that should be taught
What is Essentialism
Gaining knowledge from someone or something that we deem more knowledgable than us
What is authority
Truth through rationalism (and inspiration)
What is Neo-scholastisicm
Which philosophies are advocates of teacher-centered classrooms?
Essentialism and Perennialism
A branch of philosophy that considers values and ethics
What is Axiology
The view of learning that says that people respond to influences in the environment
What is Behaviorism
Gaining knowledge through logic
What is reason
A reality of things
What is Realism
"Free Schools" are often associated with this philosophy
What is Humanism?
Cosmology, theology, anthropology, and ontology are aspects of what philosophical category?
What is metaphysics?
The meaning of the term "social reconstruction" as discussed in the philosophies of education
What is an assertion that schools, should take the lead in addressing social problems.
Gaining knowledge by divine, or supernatural, means
What is revelation
A reality of the mind
The disestablishment of the school and the repeal of compulsory education laws
What is deschooling?
The correspondence, coherence, and pragmatic theories are apart of which philosophic category?
What is epistemology
Student-centered philosophy in which teachers facilitate learning by helping students form meaningful questions and strategies to answer them.
What is Progressivism?
Gaining knowledge that is not the result of conscious reasoning, or of immediate sense perception
What is intuition
Values related to reality
What is neo-scholasticism
The movement to maintain an environment where curricular choices can be controlled as to maintain a particular metaphysical. epistemological, and value perspective.
What is Homeschooling?