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PSE4801 SUPP EXAM REVISION JANFEB 2024 EXAM DATE 26 JAN
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PSE4801 SUPP EXAM REVISION JANFEB 2024 EXAM DATE 26 JAN
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PSE4801SUPP EXAMREVISION JAN-2024
COMMENTS ON ASSIGNMENTS 01 TO 04 (ALL COMPULSORY)
QUESTION 1According to Higgs and Waghid (2017) political and societal problems ought to be changed
in conjunction with the cultivation of democratic justice for all. Discuss this statement. 10
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3. COMMENTS ON ASSIGNMENTS 01 TO 04 (ALL COMPULSORY)
3.1 MARKING GUIDELINES OF ASSIGNMENT 01 (PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION)
SHORT QUESTIONS
QUESTION 1
According to Higgs and Waghid (2017) political and societal problems ought to be changed in
conjunction with the cultivation of democratic justice for all. Discuss this statement. (10)
• African philosophy education (APE) can be achieved only the human interactions among all
people can be enacted along the lines of democratic and just actions.
• This evokes the following meanings and actions: humans need to recognise major problems
in their societies/communities and respond to such problems before examining the
educational implications thereof.
• It is a fact that apartheid was a major wrong – the view expressed by their writers is their
response was not to wish apartheid away – they also had to examine how education as a
form of human engagement would be negatively affected.
• Negative consequences of apartment are that universities remain segregated
institutionsand knowledge production is still dominated by a privileged few.
• Knowledge interests continue to be subjected to control by more ‘powerful’ other.
• Educational spaces have been unjustly guided by manipulation, control, and exclusion of
the other.
• In response to these, the writers consider APE as a commitment to the cultivation of critical
action.
• Pursuit of the unimagined and unexpected human encounters that could enhance
democratic justice for all.
QUESTION 2
Dewey regards education as reconstruction of experience. Discuss this statement. (10)
,• Dewey calls it growth.
• Dewey appeals to the concept of experience.
• In his version, experience with fixation of situation through enquiry.
• This view claims that education has no criteria other than experiment and problem solving.
• Growth is achieved when we are able confront and solve problem through enquiry and the
result of enquiry can feed to future enquiries (predictions).
• The process and methods of enquiry are more important for Dewey than the product or
contents to be taught.
• The school curriculum and the content should address the problems learners rather than
being learned for their own sake
QUESTION 3
What must the educator do to show that he or she is attuned to the practice of teaching?
Give a detailed explanation. (10)
• He or she is capable of putting into words the meanings associated with the practice of
teaching.
• He or she makes a systematic argument for what teaching is or ought to be.
• The teacher can form judgments – that is, find reasons for clarifying it defending particular
decisions or actions.
• Educator gives an account of meanings linked to the practice of teaching.
• He or she does so clearly and simply, using an order of justification where one reason is
built on another.
• The reasons do not contradict each other - they combine to provide a systematic argument.
• A teacher needs to be genuinely attuned to the concept or practice – embedding oneself in
the way in which the concept/practice unfolds, and to acclimatise it in relation to the world.
Examples:
• An educator must love teaching.
, • To articulate his or her understanding of teaching clearly, consistently and in an attuned
way, the educator has to have the wisdom of self-knowledge and self-reconciliation.
• Teachers recognise what it means to love teaching,
• They understand and express the love through their teaching.
• They make what they teach loveable to their learners.
• They make the learners feel recognised, included, and respected.
• Learners will express their love for the lessons.
QUESTION 4
Describe what practical reasoning or rationality is all about.
• The capacity of human beings to make independent rational choices.
• Emphasis is placed on individual autonomy – the exercise of rational agency to make
judgements on power of perception, perceptual attention, recognition, identification, and
identification.
• Requires us to engage with others ‘by making their actions intelligible to us, and enables us
to respond to them in ways that they too find intelligible.
• Embarking on activities ‘in concert and communication with others.
• The idea of engaging with others on the basis of practical rationality is linked to an
understanding that we can reach our own conclusions, but simultaneously be held
accountable by and to others for those conclusions.
• It is described as people simply using their common sense – like a teacher, who needs to
assist his or her students or the context of the classroom, so as to determine the most
appropriate methods of teaching.
QUESTION 5
Explain how educators and learners can release their imaginations in pedagogical encounters.
(10)
- Teachers and learners are not constrained by imposition and control.
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