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PHILOSOPHY OF
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 PHILOSOPH
Y

 The term has been derived from two

Greeks words, “PHILOS” means
LOVE
and “SOPHIA” means WISDOM.
 Philosophymeans love for knowledge or
passion for learning.

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 MEANING OF
PHILOSOPHY

It is:
 Love of knowledge
 An activity
 A comprehensive picture of
the universe
 A guide to a way of life
 Philosophy and Science

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“EDUCATION WITHOUT PHILOSOPHY
IS BLIND AND PHILOSOPHY
WITHOUT EDUCATION IS INVALID ”

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 In literary sense, education owes its origin to
the Latin words EDUCARE.

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MEANING OF
EDUCATION
Education As:
 Acquisition of knowledge

 A tool to discipline the

intellect
 A preparation for life

 Discipline

 Growth

 Transmission of culture

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 JOHN DEWEY AND THE IDEA
OF EXPERIMENTALISM
 A philosophical belief that the way to truth is through
experiments.
 It is associated with a very broad but shallow
curriculum .Many electives but few subjects
are required.
 A friendly education research and many new ideas
come from it.
 Questions during experiments
-WHAT?
-HOW ?
-WHEN?
-HOW COME?
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 Mature thinking and the ideas to find out
something new.
 It is one of the youngest philosophy.
 Truth to be involved in real-life tasks.

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A person who puts forward
proposition
or proposal

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JOHN
DEWEY

•Born on October 20,1859 in Burlington, Vermont.

•Major Dewey’s educational theories were presented in
these writings
-The school and Society (1900),
-The child and the curriculum (1902),
-Democracy and education(1916),
-Experience and education (1938).
•Father of Modern Experimental Education..
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 He put forward most of the educational
theories and philosophy.
 Concept of experience and thinking
 Experiment is action performed
 He believed that if a student learned to solve
then he would be better fit for living.

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 Charles Sanders Peirce(1839-1914)

William James(1842-1910)

W.H.Kilpatrick

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 Education should be a study of social problems
and how it is solved.
 Experiment anything to learn from it.
 Students shouldn’t be taught what to think, but
HOW to think.
- process
- problem solving
 It is exploratory critical thinking rather than
explanatory.
 Gives important to action

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 Experimentalism has been practiced in every
field, from music to film and from literature to
theatre.
 It makes use of the empirical data often
gathered through surveys which probe the
intuitions of ordinary people
 Development of skills
 Life is a laboratory all individuals are
experimenting

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 All truths are held up to going inspection.
 Responsive to existing conditions as well as
changes in condition, enabling students to
adapt to an ever changing society.
 Teachers reflective and inquiry skills gives
students the opportunity to draw their own
conclusions after gathering all available
evidence.

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 WHAT EXPERIMENTS WOULD TEACH
IN CURRICULUM

 Everything that had any relation to

students possible futures.
 Problem solving
 Can be related to the interests of the
students
 Activity centered curriculum
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 Nursing research also uses experimental
method for evaluations.
 Selection of appropriate books and topics for
a proper research including their content.
 Creation of new subjects.
 Practical knowledge is more than
theoretical knowledge
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 METHODS OF
TEACHING

 Brain storming
methods
 Innovatory methods

 Basic research

 Learn by doing.

 Project method

 Critical thinking

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 SUBJECTS

 Nursing Research
 Physics
 Chemistry
 Research and experiments can be done in any
way and in any platform.
 New experiments are done in even the field of
arts.
 Medicine
 Geography……….etc
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 TEACHERS ROLE

 Teachers play a vital role as a

students innovation and ideas are
based on the supreme guidance of a
teacher.
 A teacher should be liberal and equal to
all students with control over them.
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 Proper communication between a lecturer
and their students should be maintained.
 Teacher offers suggestions ,questions and
encourages through out the course.

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 EVALUATION
CRITERIA
 Work should be based on the level of
research work done .
 Effective evaluation need clear knowledge of
experiments and the topics.

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 WHAT DOES A
EXPERIMENTALIST CLASS LOOK
LIKE
 The instructor facilitates the
lesson rather than lecture.
 Students are actively involved in
the execution of the lesson.
 Learning is done through a process of
inquiry and discovery.

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 Lessons are tailored to the interests of the
student.
 Collaboration and cooperation
are encouraged.
 Encourages peer learning and
provides exposure to different
viewpoints.
 Can be applicable for all types of
learners.
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 Experimentalism can also be a wasteful of
resources .
 It can also fail to follow through.
 It can be of a high budget experiments.
 But yes by experiments we don’t leave the
things the same.
 In experimenting something you are creating
knowledge.
 Cannot be done for primary class.

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 Lack of structure can be frustrating.
 Emphasis on group collaboration can be
alienating to those who prefer to work alone.
 Can be limiting in teaching foundational
knowledge.
 May be best suited for research
subjects only.
 Needs time and patience

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ANY DOUBTS?
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 REFERANCES

 Neerja.K.P(2003)Textbook of Nursing
Education.Philosophies of
Education.Unit1.Page-33.Jaypee Brothers.New
Delhi.
 Taneja.V.R(1987)Socio- Philosophical Approach
to Education.Unit 2.Pages 4-7.Atlantic
Publishers.New Delhi.
 Qureshi Muniruddin(2005).Social Aspects of
Education.Unit 6 Page-295Anmol Publication
Pvt.Ltd.New Delhi.
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