realism educational philosophy

Realism 

is a philosophy started by the ancient Greek writer, Aristotle. It states that there is a true reality, and things exist whether humans perceive them or not

The realist philosophy views the learner as a sense mechanism, a cog in the education machine (Ozmon, 2012). The teachers serve as a demonstrator, an authoritative guide, who serves as the expert of the applicable subject matter (Ozmon, 2012). The teacher would share their knowledge of reality to their students as it relates to the physical world and their reality (Ozmon, 2012). The realist curriculum is the subject matter of the external world and the realist teaching method as mastering hard facts and organized systematic information (Ozmon, 2012). According to the realist philosophy students are taught factual information for mastery in order to survive in the material world (Ozmon, 2012). The realist philosophy aligns with the purpose of any academic advising program as both the purpose of education for both realists and academic adviser is to teach knowledge that will provide students with the skills necessary to achieve a secure life (Ozmon, 2012). Realist education theory and the academic advising philosophy promote the meaningful development of academic plans that align with the student’s life goals (Ozmon, 2012).

aim of education

·         Aristotle believed that ideas also can be found by studying the world (A.ozmon),Aristotle also said that one may look at any object and see it as a scientific study and this could only happens when dealing with matter such as shape, weight , color and so forth .

·         For the religious realists studying nature and matter could leads to reach high realm because when discovering the world in real life we can know more about god and his greatness.

·         Many other realist believes that nature can provide us the learning experience and provide us with something greater than itself and the study of nature could be transcended by thought and that individuals could venture into higher realm of ideas,they believed that kind of transcending should be the principle aim of education. (A.ozmon)

·         .Also realists believed that education should develop technical skills and turn out specialists and scientists.

·         Aristotle believes in the golden mean and said a person who follow his purpose bring a life of moderation

    Role of teachers:

·         According to realism the teacher should teach students the kind of things that they need to know in their life to survive within the society. Also they believes that teachers should teach the skills needed for living in technological and scientific society and environment.

·         Also the realists believed that the teacher is important factor to learn but not the main factor because students can learn from their parents environment society television and so forth

·         Also the teachers has a significant role to present the materiel in very effective way and should be clearly defined and organized.

·         Some realists wants teachers to take general look at what they are doing ,and when the teachers see negative effects that trends to contemporary education they must return to more basic subject matter. (A.ozmon)

The teachers must believes that problem solving enjoyable experiences in learning activities should be fruitful in the aim to   aim to build students who have both knowledge and skills.

 Methods and curriculum:

·         Realists believes that proper understanding of the world requires an understanding standing of facts and ways of ordering of facts and ways of ordering and classifying of knowledge for example depends on verification of up- to- date factual data.

·         Good school program should present materiel in interesting and enjoyable ways not only facts but also the method of discovering facts should be explained .

·         Secular realism has had more recent impact on the philosophy of education because they believes that science is so much important for contemporary life

·         The kind of education they promote is primarily scientific and technical in nature and on higher levels leads to specialization(it is important to establish what humans know :and this can accomplished only by drawing together the efforts of many people each one is working on a small component of knowledge).

·         Realists believes that teacher method is very important to learn useful knowledge about the world and wether it would be trough lectures didactic teaching or the latest computer technology.

·         Realists support formal ways of teaching and although they see such objectives as self realization to be valuable ,they maintain that self realization best occurs when students are knowledgeable about the external world .

·         Students must be exposed to facts didactic and other directs techniques so they can be efficient and  organized to reach objectives

reference

A.ozmon, h. (n.d.). philosophical foundations of education. 196-197.