Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Thursday, December 11, 2014

EDFD 201

Educational Perspectives under Philosophical and Psychological Lenses

- My parents, teachers, playmates, and community.

- Socrates and the Pursuit of Truth, and Knowing Virtue

- Confucius: sincerity and cultivation of knowledge; filial piety

- John Locke and the Tabula Rasa

- John Dewey: "Education is the participation of the individual in the social consciousness of the race."

- Piaget and Vygotsky on PLAY


21st Century Educators

- Tony Wagner  and The Global Achievement Gap
- Sir Ken Robinson: How Schools Kill Creativity (2006), Bring On the Learning Revolution (2010), How to Escape Education's Death Valley (2013) - TED TALKS


The Aims of Education by Alfred North Whitehead (1916)

"In training a child to activity of thought, above all things we must beware of what I will call "inert ideas"-- that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations."

"What you teach, teach thoroughly."

"Let the main ideas which are introduced into a child's education be few and important, and let them be thrown into every combination possible. The child should make them his own, and should understand their application here and now in the circumstances of his actual life."

"From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery."


Philosophy and Psychology of Teaching

- Play
- Learning by doing


My One Thing

- "Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old, he will not depart from it."
                                                                                                         -Proverbs 22:6