EDUCATION UGC NET
EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY
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Question
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Training in character through school’s co-curricular activities is possible
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Training in citizenship is possible through school and community activities
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Child’s own experience is valuable for adequate development of child’s personality
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The free activity of the pupil is likely to result in permanent attitudes of initiative and independence and moral discipline
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hence, Pragmatism accepts any definite/eternal truth or principle is not correct regarding pragmatism.
Detailed explanation-2: -The child should learn by doing. “Learning by doing” is the great maxim of pragmatic education. To the pragmatist-“education is not so much teaching the child things he ought to know, as encouraging him to learn for himself through experimental and creative activity”.
Detailed explanation-3: -In education, pragmatism is an approach to learning and teaching that focuses on keeping things practical. Its key theorist is John Dewey. It has four principles: Unity, Interest, Experience, and Integration.
Detailed explanation-4: -According to pragmatism, the education of the child should be through the medium of society so that develops in him socially desirable qualities which promote his welfare and happiness. John Dewey rightly speaks out – Education is the social continuity of life.