Categories Of Philosophy
Contemporary Theories of Education
Sources of Knowledge
Traditional Philosophies and Education
Misc.
100

A branch of philosophy that examines questions of how we know what we know

What is Esiptomology

100

An educational philosophy that suggests that nature is constant, therefore education should be the same for everyone

What is Perenialism

100

Gaining knowledge through seeing, hearing, smelling, or touching

What is the senses

100

Truth as ideas

What is idealism

100

Philosophy in which each student decides what he/she should learn and when they should learn it.

What is Existentialism?

200

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

200

This suggests that critical, or "basic" knowledge and skills are the first things that should be taught 

What is Essentialism

200

Gaining knowledge from someone or something that we deem more knowledgable than us

What is authority 

200

Truth through rationalism (and inspiration)

What is Neo-scholastisicm

200

Which philosophies are advocates of teacher-centered classrooms?


Essentialism and Perennialism

300

A branch of philosophy that considers values and ethics

What is Axiology

300

The view of learning that says that people respond to influences in the environment

What is Behaviorism

300

Gaining knowledge through logic

What is reason

300

A reality of things

What is Realism

300

"Free Schools" are often associated with this philosophy

What is Humanism?

400

Cosmology, theology, anthropology, and ontology are aspects of what philosophical category?

What is metaphysics?

400

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.

400

Gaining knowledge by divine, or supernatural, means

What is revelation 

400

A reality of the mind

What is idealism 
400

The disestablishment of the school and the repeal of compulsory education laws

What is deschooling?

500

The correspondence, coherence, and pragmatic theories are apart of which philosophic category?

What is epistemology

500

Student-centered philosophy in which teachers facilitate learning by helping students form meaningful questions and strategies to answer them.

What is Progressivism?

500

Gaining knowledge that is not the result of conscious reasoning, or of immediate sense perception 

What is intuition 

500

Values related to reality 

What is neo-scholasticism 

500

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?