Pre-Service Teacher Reflection Paper

My philosophical position as a pre service teacher is as follows, I believe that social learning and freedom are critical in teaching and learning. Social learning is learning and educating students at a wider scale than individual learning, social learning can be adapted in a class room through social interaction between peers. Social learning has a very important impact in our everyday lives, our world is a social place as individuals we spend most of our time as members of social groups, we normally do this unintentionally, an individual’s social success is based upon the quality of their social interactions. Freedom is the power to act or speak implying this in classrooms allows students to be able to make their own choices in our education and allows them to freely express themselves. The act of freedom is important within a classroom because it allows students to be able to express themselves and allows their peers to learn and understand knowledge from a different perspective.

As a pre service teacher I believe I hold these values because I believe that these values will give me more job satisfaction and make me happier as teacher and a student.

I found arguments in John Dewey and Rudolf Steiner that will support my professional philosophy I believe I hold the same values and believes as both of the theorists. I will now discuss the arguments they bought across in the documents, ‘Parenting as a vocation: Lifelong learning can begin in the home’ (INT.J. of lifelong education VOL. 22, NO. 4 (July-August 2003). 397-379), and ‘The curriculum studies reader- My Pedagogic Creed’ (David J. Flinders, Stephen J. Thornton. I will mainly use these readings to support my entitlement why my values will give me a more job satisfacti...

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...n Dewey and Rudolf Steiner.

I have done readings on Nel Noddings and I disagree with her theory, the reason why I didn’t pick Nel Noddings is because her theory is mainly based upon care. I believe that a teacher and a student should have a well-defined line between where they stand. It comes to my knowledge that Noddings uses too much care in her educating methods and that she looks more like a mother figure than a teacher figure. I have also done readings on Paulo Freire, the reason for not choosing him as my main philosopher is because of the way he viewed students, he believed students were like a ‘bank’ they were empty accounts that needed to be filled by the teacher. Freire viewed students as object waiting to be transformed by a teacher, I am against this type of thinking and theory therefor I thought picking Freire to do this report on would be incorrect.