Aims and Purposes in Education

1. AIMS and PURPOSES in EDUCATION JOEY R. MIÑANO

2. EDUCATIONAL AIMS Educational Aims P erforms 3 Important F unctions (Normative) Give direction to the educative process. before one makes a change in the curriculum or plans a new school building or adds new personnel to the staff, he must ask what his objectives are. It is worthwhile to be conscious of what direction, custom and tradition are carrying the educative process.

3. Aims not only should give direction to education but should motivate it as well. Aims are values, and if they are valued, if they are wanted, they should induce the learner to release the energies necessary to accomplish them.

4. Aims have the function of providing a criterion for evaluating the educational process Whether one is examining students or accrediting high schools and colleges, he must have reference to initial objectives.

5. HOW AIMS FUNCTION Act purposely, to consider future events in the light of the past, all one acting intelligently… to distinguish aims or objectives from outcomes or results. The former are a matter of foresight, while the latter are the matter of hindsight. The former are what one tries to learn or teach; while the latter what actually succeeds in learning or teaching.

6. Reshaped to meet the needs of a dynamic environment that educational aims should emerge from experience. It is not only purposeful but personal.

7. Serve the educative process that education must be a judicious mixture of a participation in present life and preparation for subsequent events. education should properly put more stress on preparation for adulthood than on a present interests of childhood. education and college should aim at life, life here and now, emerges from the past and imperceptibly merges with the future.

8. Various Values Consisting the Ultimate Aim of Education Bible: “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect”

9. John Dewey: “The educational process has no end beyond itself; is its own end”.

10. Aims and Purposes in Education Philosophical view An aim is a logical prerequisite of a practical theory. Unless some end is regarded as valuable no practical theory is possible. A practical theory consists simply of an argument providing recommendations for achieving some end thought desirable. Practice is always theory-loaded.

11. Distinction between an aim and a purpose someone is being asked to specify what his action is, to state its content to presuppose some end outside the activity itself, which the activity is designed and intended to bring about What are you digging that piece of ground for? Purpose So that I can grow potatoes in it I am digging over this piece of ground thoroughly Aim

12. To talk of purposes is always to refer to some external end to which the activity is directed, to talk of aims is not to refer to external ends but to the activity itself, to its internal end.

13. Relevance in Education A teacher maybe asked to state his aim in a particular lesson, that is to make clear what he is doing or trying to do. He may also be asked what is really a separate question, namely, why he is doing it, what he is doing it for, what his purpose is in trying to get his pupils to write poetry or to solve quadratic equations. So too, it is possible to ask of education itself, what its aims are and what its purpose maybe.

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17. Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers. Richard Bach

18. Thank you very much