Educ 5010 Unit 3 Written Assignment

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Introduction
According to "The Progressive Education Movement: Is it Still a Factor in Today's
Schools?" Rowman & Littlefield. Retrieved 2013-06-03. Progressive education is a
pedagogical movement that began in the late nineteenth century and has persisted in various
forms to the present. More recently, it has been viewed as an alternative to the test-oriented
instruction legislated by the “No Child Left Behind” educational funding act.
My chosen educational theory is the progressivism philosophy. I have chosen that
because Progressivist educators are outcome focused and don’t simply impart learned facts.
Teachers are less concerned with passing on the existing culture and strive to allow students
to develop an individual approach to tasks provided to them.
Progressive education can be traced as far back as to the works of John
Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with both being respectively known as paternal
forerunners to the ideas that would be demonstrated by theorists such as Dewey. Locke first
speculated, “truth and knowledge… are out of observation and experience rather than
manipulation of accepted or given ideas “(Locke as cited in Hayes, 2007, p. 2). He further
discussed the need for children to have concrete experiences in order to learn.
Progressivists believe that education should focus on the whole child, rather than on
the content or the teacher. This educational philosophy stresses that students should test ideas
by active experimentation. Learning is rooted in the questions of learners that arise through
experiencing the world. It is active, not passive. The learner is a problem solver and thinker
who makes meaning through his or her individual experience in the physical and cultural
context. Effective teachers provide experiences so that students can learn by doing.
Curriculum content is derived from student interests and questions. The scientific method is
used by progressivist educators so that students can study matter and events systematically
and first hand. The emphasis is on process-how one comes to know.
The major details of the progressivism philosophy for me is what it does for the
children/students. Since it is a child centred philosophy, it means centring the instructions on
the needs, interest and developmental stages of the child. It means teaching students the skills
they need to learn any subject, promoting discovery and self-directed learning by the students
through active engagements.
This philosophy speaks to me because Progressivism is not a “one cap fits all”
approach. It says that students learn through their own experiences. It revolves around the
students' needs, a concept known as focusing on the whole child. In my class, the students
have differentiated work, each task is tailored to their abilities. The progressivism philosophy
centres curricula on the needs, experiences, interest and abilities of each student because they
learn best from what they consider most relevant to their lives.
My main focus in class is to try as much as possible to make school interesting for my
students by using my theme and objective to plan lessons based on their interest, this makes
the children curious and ask questions. They want to find out if I know as much as they do on
the topic of interest and with those questions that the children ask, we have engaging in-class
activities and they are also involved in the assessment.
The progressivism philosophy has impacted positively on my classroom practice. My
main focus in class is on the students and how they can learn. I guide them through the
lessons, make sure they are on task and have the supplies needed to do their tasks and then let
them do their work independently since the goal of the philosophy is to educate students to
become independent thinkers and lifelong learners and to pursue academic excellence and
individual achievement.
References
Progressivism, Schools and Schools of Education: An American Romance
David F. Labaree
Education, Society, & the K-12 Learner Joel Amidon-Ann Monroe-Mark Ortwein – retrieved
from https://courses.lumenlearning.com/teachereducationx92x1/chapter/progressive-
education/
Western philosophies of education. (n.d.). In S. Sikhauli (Ed.), MA.Edu.Philosophy (pp. 49-
55). Retrieved March 3, 2018,
from https://www.academia.edu/34327764/M.A._Edu._Philosophy
Educational philosophies definitions and comparison chart. (n.d.). [pdf] Retrieved February
28, 2016,
from http://ctle.hccs.edu/facultyportal/tlp/seminars/tl1071SupportiveResources/compa
rison_edu_philo.pdf
Lynch, M. (2016, November 03). Philosophies of education: 3 types of student-centered
philosophies. Retrieved March 07, 2018,
from http://www.theedadvocate.org/philosophies-education-3-types-student-centered-
philosophies/

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Running head: EDUC 5010 Written Assignment Unit 3 1

EDUC 5010 Written Assignment Unit 2

University of the People

According to "The Progressive Education Movement: Is it Still a Factor in Today's

Schools?" Rowman & Littlefield. Retrieved 2013-06-03. Progressive education is a

My chosen educational theory is the progressivism philosophy. I have chosen that

to develop an individual approach to tasks provided to them.

Progressive education can be traced as far back as to the works of John

and first hand. The emphasis is on process-how one comes to know.

children/students. Since it is a child centred philosophy, it means centring the instructions on

through active engagements.

activities and they are also involved in the assessment.

The progressivism philosophy has impacted positively on my classroom practice. My

Progressivism, Schools and Schools of Education: An American Romance

Western philosophies of education. (n.d.). In S. Sikhauli (Ed.), MA.Edu.Philosophy (pp. 49-

55). Retrieved March 3, 2018,

Lynch, M. (2016, November 03). Philosophies of education: 3 types of student-centered

philosophies. Retrieved March 07, 2018,

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