EDUCATION UGC NET
EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY
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Pragmatism
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Idealism
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Marxism
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Idealism and Marxism both
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Detailed explanation-1: -Idealism believes that the goal of human life is the exaltation of man’s personality. Education has to achieve this aim.
Detailed explanation-2: -Idealism is a school of philosophy that emphasizes that “ideas or concepts are the essence of all that is worth know-ing” (Johnson et. al., 2011, p. 87). Based on the writings of Plato, this school of philosophy encourages conscious reason-ing in the mind.
Detailed explanation-3: -This exaltation of human personality means self-realization. Idealists give much importance to the spiritual and cultural possessions of the individual and of the real.
Detailed explanation-4: -Reform schools provide a good example of an idealist education. Reform schools typically seek to train students that need further instruction in character development, creating or strengthening morals and values in each of the students, all while teaching the basic core curriculum that is taught in a typical school.
Detailed explanation-5: -According to Knight (1998) Augustine (354-430), Rene Descartes (1596-1650), George Berkeley and the German philosopher Immanuel Kant and George William Hegel are the prominent names who represent idealism.