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Philosophy of Education

A Booklet Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Course EDFN500 Foundations of Christian Education

by Annick M. Brennen August 1999

Philosophy of Education
By Annick M. Brennen, MA TABLE OF CONTENTS
Each line in the table of contents is a hyperlink EDUCATION6 What is Education?6 Ellen G. White’s Purpose and Meaning of Christian Education7 The Purpose of Education7 The Meaning of Education8 What is Educational Philosophy?9 Educational Philosophies of Distinguished Philosophers10 Leo XIII’s Position on Proper Religious and Moral Instruction10 The Value of Futurism to Education11 The Application of Reconstructionism to Education11 Educational Value of Humanism11 Educational Value of Progressivism11 Educational Value of Perennialism12 The Educational Value of Behaviorism13 Educational Value of Essentialism13 Educational Value of Existentialism14 A Critique of Plato’s Philosophy of Education as Given in The Republic14 The Eden School15 The Schools of the Prophets16 Jesus the Master Teacher: His Method18 His Mission19 His Preparation for Ministry19 His Qualifications19 His Teaching Scope19 His Philosophical Base20 His Content20 His Methods21 The Aims of Seventh-Day Adventist Education23 Are Seventh-Day Adventists Unique in Their Idea That the Church Should Be Concerned with Both the Temporal and Spiritual Aspects of Man’s Life? 23 Content-Centered Approach Versus Child-Centered Approach to Education25 The Child-Centered Educational Approach26 The Content-Centered Educational Approach27 Curriculum and Teaching Method of the (A) Idealist, (B) Realist, and (C) Pragmatist29 The Curriculum of the Idealist29 The Teaching Method of the Idealist30 The Curriculum of the Realist30

The Method of the Realist31 The Curriculum of the Pragmatist31 The Method of the Pragmatist32 PHILOSOPHY33 What is Philosophy?33 The Aims... [continues]

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