Assignment:
Instruction/ Tips to Follow when writing the paper:
1- What is your philosophy of education (perennialism/ essentialism/ progressivism/ existentialism/ social constructivism)?
2- Explain each of (perennialism/ essentialism/ progressivism/ existentialism/ social constructivism) and how those applied to you?
3- How will your philosophical perspective impact you teaching style?
4- How will you teaching placement modify your philosophy?
5- How do your personal values, political proclivities, class consciousness, racial presperctives, and historical insights influence your outlook?
6- Why is it important to have a philosophy of education?
Structure/ Organization: ( 5 pages length)
1- Length: 5 pages
2- Double spaced, word document, 1-inch margins, 12 point font
3- Conventions: Spelling, usage, paragraphing, and sentence structure.
4- Completeness: throughout discussion (‘compact crystallization')
5- The writing should be scholarly, but natural, unforced, and shot through with wit, passion, and/ intrigue.
6- There should be an engaging "sound" to the writing, a contrast in sentence length and cadence. It does't plod; it has lilt. Thus, "write for the ear".