EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

EDUCATION UGC NET

EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which is not Naturalism’s aim of Education?
A
To inculcate ethical and moral values in the pupils
B
Education is the notion of man’s evolution from lower forms of life
C
To equip the individual or the nation for the struggle for existence so as to ensure survival
D
To help the pupils to learn to be in harmony with and well-adapted to their surroundings
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Detailed Solution. The inclination of the child should be allowed to develop freely with little guidance.

Detailed explanation-2: -Applied to education, naturalism considers child as a gift of nature with potentialities for natural growth according to laws of nature. The child is an active individual capable of self-development. The aim of education is to develop the child as healthy and active personality in a natural setting.

Detailed explanation-3: -Naturalism presumes that nature is in principle completely knowable. There is in nature a regularity, unity, and wholeness that implies objective laws, without which the pursuit of scientific knowledge would be absurd.

Detailed explanation-4: -Naturalism: emphasises child-centred methods of learning by doing and direct experience. Pragmatism: recommends project methods, problem-solving method and socialized techniques.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hence, we can conclude that father of Naturalism is Jean Jacques Rousseau.

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