A Survey of philosophy of education courses in teachers college

• Main Authors: Will Chen, 陳信儒
• Other Authors: Chi-Ming Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2001
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92481809453201761167

碩士 === 臺中師範學院 === 國民教育研究所 === 89 === The purpose of this study is discussing teacher college students’ status about “philosophy of education” courses and the teaching.The ways to discuss are divided into teaching goal, teaching content and teaching method. First, what the teaching objectives about “philosophy of education” courses and level of achieve objectives are by students. Second, what the teaching content and modeth of teaching about “philosophy of education” courses and level of help student are. Third, what difficulties and other opinions about teaching “philosophy of education” courses are by students. Questionnaires were used to collect datas, base on 11 teacher colleges’ senior students who major in Department of Elementary Education in Taiwan. The following conclusions from this research results are: 1.”helping students to build up their own educational ideals”, “helping students to know the basic meaning and structures of philosophy” and “introducing different kinds of philosophy of educations’ school of though and points of view, and the same time, “develop students critical thinking way to education” are the most teachers’ teaching objective. 2.Most students thought that the teaching should emphases on “developing judge thinking and analyst abilities,” and “building up teaching college students’ educational ideals. 3.Most teachers’ teaching philosophy issuse are according to the “knowledge theory”, “metaphysics”, and “humanism. However, students don’t think the “knowledge theory”, “metaphysics” which are any big help. 4.On the school of though issue, more than half of teachers have taught ‘reasonism,’’existentialism,’’pragmatism,’’behaviorism,’’empiricism,’and ‘pragmatism. 5.On the education issue, all the teachers have taught “educational essence” and “ educational goal”, but didn’t teach “educational evaluation”. 6.’Didactic instruction’and ‘free Q & A’ are the most teachers’ teaching way, the secondly is ‘group discussion.’ 7.Most students though ‘group discussion,’ ‘film watching,’ and ‘argument’ which can mostly help learning. 8.Over half of teachers use ‘mid-tern or final reports’ as students’ homework. 9.More than half of teachers will use ‘Participating the class’ and ‘mid-tern quiz and final’ as the evaluation. According to the above research results, researcher proposed the following suggestions as the references for the “philosophy of education” teachers in teaching.