The Teaching Profession Flashcards
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Education is the process of acquiring knowledge, habits, attitudes, interest, skills, abilities, and other human qualities through training, self-activity, and transmitting these vital elements of human civilization to posterity.
Education
What are the three types of education?
Formal, non-formal, and informal
Refers to the hierarchically structured and chronologically graded learning, organized and provided by formal schools and where certification is required in order for the learner to progress through the grades or move on to higher levels.
Formal Education
Refers to any school-based educational activities undertaken by the DECS and other agencies aimed at attaining specific learning objectives for a particular learner.
Non-formal education
added info: TESDA
It is a type of education that can be acquired anytime and anywhere, also known as the education for all seasons.
Informal Education (education at home/workshops)
What are the two theories concerning the exact ORIGIN OF EDUCATION?
Theory of Evolution and Theory of Divine Education
It advocates that God equipped man with intellect and free will.
Theory of Divine Education
Explain the THEORY OF EVOLUTION
The theory of evolution believes that education started when the primitive\man began his quest to find ways and means to feed,
clothe, shelter and protect himself, and compete with other animals
for survival. (Education for conformity, survival of the fittest)
What are the ancient civilizations that have contributed to education? State their contribution.
Jewish - religious education
Chinese - career-oriented education
Egyptian - practical and empirical (math: pi - 3.16; engineering and architecture: pyramids)
Greek - liberal and democratic (rule of the people)
Roman - pragmatic and progressive (practical) - military
They were the wandering scholars who went to Athens to teach Athenian boys by collecting fees from them.
Sophists
Famous sophist who stated that man is the measure of all things.
Protagoras
The _________ flourished in order to counteract the influences of the Sophists.
Greek Thinkers
Who are the greek thinkers who counteracted the influences of the Sophists?
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
He was a Greek Thinker who believed that knowledge is virtue
and all virtuous actions are based on knowledge.
Socrates
In what teaching method was Socrates known?
Socratic-Dialectic Method - asking questions and not give an answer (checking consciousness of other people.
He believed that the social class the person belongs to determines their education.
Plato
What are the social classes according to Plato?
Philosophical Class - Rulers
Warrior Class - Protectors
Artisan Class - Workers
you need to take an exam/training in order to pass those social classes
He believed that virtue is brought by doing not by knowing and advanced the idea that man is a social animal and must use his reason to attain his ultimate end, which is ‘the summumbonum’ or highest/supreme Good.
Aristotle.
What are the teaching methods Jesus Christ used?
Parable, conversational, and proverbial or gnomic methods.
When did Christian Education (catholicism) become part of Rome’s mainstream society?
Christian Education became part of the mainstream society in Rome
when Emperor Constantine proclaimed Christianity as the official religion of the Roman world.
Constantine dreamt of Jesus Christ showing him the cross, and said, “By this sign, you will conquer.”
He placed the cross symbol in their armor, during the BATTLE OF MILVIAN BRIDGE IN 312 against his BROTHER-IN-LAW, Maxentius.
They won the battle, and Constantine declared that Catholicism would be Rome’s official religion.
What are the five different medieval moments in education?
Monasticism, Scholasticism, The Medieval University, Chivalry, and the Guild System.
It is where education was a religious discipline, strict, rigid, and punishment was severe.
Monasticism
Who is the father of monasticism?
St. Anthony
What is the school/agency the monasticism used?
Monasteries