Kategorier: Alle - skills - autonomy - critical-thinking - vocational

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The discourse on educational philosophy presents various viewpoints on the nature and purpose of learning. There is a contention between focusing solely on the accumulation of knowledge versus incorporating critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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Knowledge is important, but it is rarely the trump card in circumstances - Councell(cited in Husbands)

technology raced ahead of educational gains - BUT Hircsh neglect that – Goldin and Kanz (cited in Husbands)

Limited Scope of Knowledge – Husband challenges Herich that the assumption that a fixed body of knowledge is sufficient for education. Instead, he suggests that education should go beyond just memorizing information and should focus on empowering students with knowledge that enables critical thinking and problem-solving.

Floating topic

The Aims of Education

Learner-foucused (Dewey)

Liberal Education and Student-Centered Learning:Modern liberal education advocates giving students more autonomy, allowing them to explore knowledge freely rather than passively receiving it.
Conceptual Analysis in Education:The London School of Philosophy of Education emphasizes that by analyzing fundamental concepts such as “learning” and “teaching,” we can clarify the true aims of education.
The true [focus] is not science, nor literature, nor history, nor geography, but the child's own social activities...
The whole aim of good teaching is to turn the young learner into an independent, self-propelling creature (Jacques Barzun cited in Hare, 1999)

Skill-enhancing (schlichler)

Subtopic
Schools have to prepare for jobs that have not yet been created. schlichler
the most effective and equitable systems were those with strong upper secondary vocational provision - Green at all(cited in Husbands)
Against Skills-Only Learning – Hirsch criticizes the idea that education should focus only on general skills (like critical thinking or problem-solving) without a strong foundation of factual knowledge. He argues that knowledge and skills develop together.

Knowledge-based (Hirch)

negative
positive
Young

powerful knowledge

pedagogy

knowledge of the power

Critical mass of enabling knowledge over thrteen years of schooling (1869)
Philosophical Perspectives
Education and Moral Understanding:Plato believed that true education is not merely the accumulation of knowledge but also the understanding of “the Good” and the pursuit of moral life.
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave:The goal of education is to guide individuals out of ignorance and into enlightenment.

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