GROUP 8

PUTRY SARY DEWI

IRMA OKTAVIANI
 AIMS IN EDUCATION

APPLICATION
THE NATURE OF AN AIM IN EDUCATION

THE CRITERIA
OF GOOD AIM
 THE NATURE OF AN AIM

For it assumed that the aim of education is to enable individuals to

continue their education or that the object and reward of learning is
continued capacity for growth.
Now, this idea can not be applied to all the members of a society.

Our first question is to define the nature of an aim so far as it falls within an activity
instead of being furnished from without.
 In the next place the aim as a for seen end gives
direction to the activity. The foresight function
in three ways.

Careful observation Order or sequence Alternative possible

 THE CRITERIA OF GOOD AIM

We may apply the results of our discussion to a consideration of the

criteria involved in a correct
establishing of aims.

1. The aim set up must be 3. The aim must always

an outgrowth of existing represent a freeing of a
conditions. 2. The aim as it first ctivities.
emerges is a mere
tentative.
 APPLICATION IN EDUCATION

And it is well remind ourselves that education as such has

Aims mean acceptance of respon
no aims. Only persons, parents, teachers and so on.
sibility for the observations,
Have aims not an abstract
anticipations, and arrangements
idea like education.
required in carrying
on a function.
 Bearing these qualifications in mind,
we shall proceed to state some of
the characteristics found in
all good educational aims.

1. An educational aim must be founded

2. An aim must be capable of translation into a
upon the intrinsic activities and needs
method of cooperating with the activities
(including original instincts and acquired
of those undergoing instruction.
habits) of the given individual to be educated.

3. Educators have to be on their guard against

ends that are alleged
to be general and ultimate.
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