Balestramon, Jojette E. MAED- SPED S.N.

121- 0492

FS 101: Advanced Foundations of Education

7:00- 10:00 am February 2, 2013

My Pedagogic Creed (Reaction Paper)

1. How relevant do you believe Deweys statements are today? Why? I believe that the relevance of Deweys statements as of today is some of them are still existing because they are believe to be effective up to this times which means that the process of education in the early days is as the same as of today although there is a slight variation in the application and methods but still the essence is the same. They say that all education proceeds by the participation of the individual in the social consciousness of the race. The process begins consciously almost at birth and is continually shaping the individuals powers, saturating his consciousness, forming his habits, training his ideas and arousing his feelings and emotions. Through this unconsciousness education the individual gradually comes to share in the intellectual and moral resources which humanity has succeeded in getting together. The only true education comes through the stimulation of the childs powers by the demands of the social situation in which he finds himself, which means that a child develops himself through his environment in which he belongs. Thats the reason why the behavior of the child reflects from where he comes from. Knowledge of social condition of the present state of civilization is necessary in order properly to interpret the childs potential. The child has his own instincts and tendencies but we should be careful to determine their outcomes until we can translate them into their social meanings. The psychological and social sides are organically related and that education cannot be regarded as a compromise between the two because their definition vary for the psychological definition of education is barren and formal that it gives us only the idea of development of all the mental powers without giving us any idea of the education as getting adjusted to civilization, makes of it as a forced and external process and results in subordinating the freedom of the individual to a preconceived social and political status.

I can say that the relevance of the statements to our life now still exists because of the advent of the democracy and modern industrial conditions. It is easy to tell that civilization will totally be modernized so we will prepare our children by means of giving command of himself, meaning train him to be full and ready to use all of his capacities that his judgment maybe capable of grasping the conditions under which it has to work and the executive forces be trained to act economically and efficiently.

2. Which of Deweys beliefs do you personally agreed or disagrees with? Why? As for me, I personally agree with Deweys belief that the educational process has two sides, one psychological and one sociological and that neither can be subordinated to the other or neglected without evil results. Of the two sides, psychological is the basis which proves the truth because a childs own instinct and powers furnish the material and give the starting point for all education. The education connects some activity which the child is carrying on through his own initiative. I also believe that education is a process of living and not a preparation for future living because for me education formal or informal is a way of life meaning to say that you should learn ways how to cope up with daily life, meaning your personal life, it doesnt mean that you should go to school to stay alive. By means of watching or simply visualizing the daily routines of simple living, one could be educated although without the proper way you can survived, if you learn to know how and someday little by little it becomes a way that you will become an expert and you can do it if will do a way to become one.

3. How does Deweys statement that education is a process of living and not a preparation for future living compare with B.F. Skinners position in his article, the free and happy student. Well the two writers had their own opinion regarding their own work for which the two find similarities and differences which was seen if the reader will go beyond their writings and weighed facts. As for the article of B.F. Skinners The happy and free Student the character descriptions as a child is similar with that of Deweys that the child has his own thinking varying from his environment that the only education comes through the stimulation of the childs powers by the demand of the social situations in which he finds himself. Through these demands he is stimulated to act as a member of a unity to

merge from his own narrowness of action n and feeling and to conceive of himself from the standpoint of the welfare of the group belongs. The education that the child had achieve in the article of Skinners was the child was not taught how to deal with the real world that how to work in order to live because all he knows is that the world is made for him and he does not how to use his mind and hand to find a way for a living unlike in Deweys article I which he quotes that education is a process of living and not a preparation for future living because here, the child is taught in school must represent life, life as a real and vital as that which he carries on the home, in the neighborhood or in the playground. In other words, the child is this setting life in a practical life where he is taught on how to live a life in every sense of the world a reality.