Education Philosophy: Models, Dimensions, and Pillars
Philosophy of Education
The task of a philosophy of education is the questioning of the foundations of the analysis of education itself. These fundamentals center on theoretical research to understand and evaluate current educational ideas within various institutions of enseñanza. It picks up on faith as a discipline to establish autonomous philosophical studies based on a specific problem and a methodology best suited to its faith. It must situate itself as a branch of philosophy, an autonomous discipline.
First Task
To determine the type of problem to be addressed within the broad framework of education.
Second Task
To define the most appropriate philosophical approach to address such problematic.
Educational Model Types
Traditional Model
Characterized by being academic, verbal, repetitive, and authoritarian. Students are recipients, and the mission of the teacher is powered on, setting standards, monitoring, evaluating, identifying tasks and obligations; review has a crucial role (Plato, Aristotle, Socrates).
Model of Active or Reformist Pedagogy
What is important is not to learn unless you learn to learn. The teacher acts as a stimulator and orientator of the learner, with an individualized education relationship between teacher and student (Rousseau, Dewey).
Model of Pedagogy Técnica or Behaviorist
Teaching by objectives, born as a correlate of industrial production.
Personalized Pedagogy Model
Optimizes the search for skill development and intellectual work strategies.
Constructivist Model
A psychological approach that places the human learner at the center, focusing on the construction of knowledge by the subject himself.
Significant Learner: The 4 Pillars
- Learning to Learn: The student must learn to develop expertise in both materials and experiences that will serve them in their adult life.
- Learn to Do: The student must learn a myriad of skills which enable them in their adult life to develop solutions to problems or situations, namely teamwork.
- Learning to Live: The student must learn to develop work in groups, to respect the individuality of people (each human being is unique and special, either because of their race, way of doing so.) In order to learn rules of behavior and social interaction.
- Learn to Be: Students must acquire knowledge about themselves, to know how to interpret their individuality and that of others, so they can develop respect, autonomy, etc., with moral criteria.
Political Dimension
There is some consensus that the process of globalization is causing a progressive loss of the sovereignty and jurisdiction of the States themselves, bearing in mind that its essential elements are its territory, people, and organized and sovereign power. The territory has relatively lost its importance as a power in the international concert.
Social Dimension
Societies are being increasingly affected by external cultural factors of each nation, due to the revolution in communications and information technology.
Economic Dimension
It appears that the structural changes in the economies of all countries endure for decades, ensuring a rapid increase of trade and world economic growth for the future.
Dimension Technology
One of the most powerful engines of globalization has been the spectacular development of new computer technologies, computing, and communications.