THE CONTRIBUTION OF PHILOSOPHERS TO
EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Frederich
W. Froebel
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Advocates for self activity and
evolution in which the inborn
endowments of the individual
naturally unfold.
* He also advocated for an enriched
viable environment free from corruption for the children to play with
concretes objects like toys, games, geometric, horlms egg-balls, cubbs and
blocks, sizes shapes etc.
* Froebel believed that all things are
unified by God. His education advocated for freedom for the child to explore
on his own & for adult to support.
PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWS
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EDUCATIONAL
IMPLICATION
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Frederich
W. Froebel
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Advocates for self activity and
evolution in which the inborn
endowments of the individual
naturally unfold.
* He also advocated for an enriched
viable environment free from corruption for the children to play with
concretes objects like toys, games, geometric, horlms egg-balls, cubbs and
blocks, sizes shapes etc.
* Froebel believed that all things are
unified by God. His education advocated for freedom for the child to explore
on his own & for adult to support.
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Froebel suggested that pre-school
children be given freedom to learn naturally.
* He also stated that children should
be adequately equipped through their senses by providing concrete objects for
learning and play is in line/consonance with piglet’s theory that the major
mode of learning and play is in sensor motor and concrete experience.
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JOHN
HEINRICH PESTALOZZI
* Pestalozzi believed that the child
be encouraged to gain knowledge through his own sensory experience, that is
education of the child at this level should involve eseperiencing of things
which the child sees, handle. He view the right order of learning, which
should be from simple to complex or from known to unknown
* Pestalozzi Advocated that children
should receive from their parents & teachers both instruction and
discipline for the development of their potentials. He also suggested that
the society should aid the growth of the children by providing equal educational
opportunity for every child.
* He advocated for healthy and
supportive environment to be created by both home and school for the
development of young children.
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* Pestalozzi in his contribution
emphasized that both home and school should endeavor to provide enriched
environment that will stimulate learning
* The teacher should provide conducive
physical environment consisting of objects with which the children interact
with objects, provision of enough space for play, learning materials such as
books, toys and other resources that aid learning.
* Pestalozzi believed in considering
the age of the learner in planning his programe, and that lesson should be
sequential, children to learn from known to unknown. This implies that the
teacher should facilitate his lesson by splits the units of work in small
bits for easy comprehension by the children.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau:- Advocates that
– the child is naturally food and develop along good lines it let on his own.
* That the adult society is bad and
corrupt and therefore influences children who come into contact with it
* The socio-political apparatus in the
society affects educational system.
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Rouseaus suggested that teaching
should be child – centred and the methods of teaching to be activity oriented
so as to create amusement and joy to the children.
- He is of the view that teachers
should not force the child to learn rather teachers every lesson with play
and activity. Children should not be forced to learn without their willing
cooperation.
- Education provided to the children
should take cognizance of their age of comprehension instead of stuffing the
children with materials that are uninterested and of no value to their age.
Instruction must be made to fit the child’s level of understanding and his
stage of development and their immediate experience should be
considered.
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