Basic concepts and curricular Theory

Basic concepts and curricular Theory

Education brings together knowledge from other sciences and disciplines, such as history, sociology, psychology and politics. In this context, the aim of education is to integrate the persons concerned into a society with its own cultural norms and characteristics.

Kant

Plato

Aristotle

Montessori

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Plato considered the qualities that a just society should possess, among them superior knowledge of the "good form". Their skills and 15 years of practical experience as "high officials" made the society just and in tune with the "form" of reality.

It provides one of the most complete and profound philosophical systems of ancient thought. Aristotle's philosophy dominated Western thought, both philosophical and scientific, until the Renaissance, when a new system emerged.

He believed that the purpose of pedagogy was to transform the spontaneous educational process into systematic knowledge, in which the pupil was expected to demonstrate obedience and passivity based on practice and discipline, and in which he was allowed to use the faculties of thought and freedom determined or regulated by the laws governing society.

Montessori education began with her study of mentally handicapped children and her decision to devote her life to their care. Through her observations, she concluded that the development of children in school is best achieved in a caring environment adapted to the child's world, rich and manipulative materials, teachers as educators, and attention to the child's sensitive periods.

The "father of modern progressive education". He believed that natural processes were best and recommended "look to nature and follow the path that nature has marked out for you," i.e., a naturalistic education from birth to adulthood

The aim of education is to integrate human formation (knowledge, skills and action), so that people develop into rational, autonomous and inclusive beings.