Philosophy of Teaching and

Learning
Which one came first?

What is Philosophy?
As an academic discipline
No academic discipline without philosophy

As a set of beliefs or worldview

To develop belief - psychologically

As a study or inquiry
Asking question to verify nature, idea, theory
etc.

Overview of the discipline of knowledge

Essential Knowledge for Students?

Teacher facilitates students
to develop knowledge

What kind/category of knowledge does teacher help to

develop?

Type of Knowledge
Analyze your subject and provide an example of:
The fundamental knowledge of the subject
Justifying the concept, fact, belief, procedure of the
knowledge
Evaluating the value of the knowledge

Knowledge Acquired by Students

Metaphysics
What is real?

Epistemology
How to justify?
Axiology
What is value?

Branches of Philosophy
Metaphysics
Study about matter (real)
The study of the universal principles that govern
our universe
School of Metaphysics is a place to discover,
explore, and put principles into action for best of
life
Substantive knowledge of the subject

Branches of Philosophy
Epistemology

The study how knowledge developed

To provide the answer to the How
Explain the nature and scope of knowledge
Education:
How did the knowledge developed?
How did phenomena happened?
What features were involved?
What will happen if, then, else. .?
Who should be involved?
How was the theory built?

Also known as Syntactic knowledge

Branches of Philosophy
Two types of epistemology
Personal epistemology:
Personal views about own knowledge and learning

Public epistemology:
Includes a student's ideas about the nature of knowledge
and learning for the community as a whole, or for a
specific discipline / community
The epistemologies can differ significantly and affect learning
behavior far more profoundly. Yet many studies do not make
this distinction.

Quality of Description
Phenomenology

Public
Epistemology

Experience

?
Hermeneutics
Interpretation

Personal Epistemology
Reasoning
(Formal)

Common
Sense reasoning

Use to understand
Physics Phenomena

Failure to understand

Branches of Philosophy
Axiology
Explores the nature of value (What is value?)
The study of the nature, types, and criteria of values
and value judgments
Ethics
Aesthetics

Philosophy of Knowledge Development

Epistemology

Metaphysics

Axiology

Teacher and Philosophy

All teachers have a personal philosophy that
colors the way they teach
Engaging in philosophy helps clarify what they
do or intend to do, justify or explain why they
do what they do in a logical or systematic
manner