MCC 102 Module 1 & 2

• Mabalacat City College envision itself to be the top choice of its community it serves for quality education and training by 2025
• The mission of Mabalacat City College is to meet the needs of its community as a center for learning aiming for open admission policy
• MCC Core Values

  • Passion
  • Integrity
  • Excellence
  • Service
• MCC Hymn: 'MCC the home of the crimson tribe, with walls of strengths and determination, emblazoned with red and steel gushing us to march forward. Mabalacat City College, the home that never gives up on us, always believing that in our veins, the crimson is within and burning. Alma mater to you, we lay down our victories, MCC my dearest alma mater will forever praise your name. And that banner or red and steel, we carry it with pride and honor. Mabalacat City College, Mabalacat City College, the home of the Crimson tribe, hail to you, hail to you… MCC.'
• The educational framework of one institution is highly dependent on their philosophy
• Philosophy lies at the heart of curriculum creation, it assists curriculars in developing beliefs, arguments, and assumptions, also in forming value judgements
• Philosophy cultivate a wider perspective and assists in determining what schools are for, what courses are significant, how students should learn, and what resources and methods should be employed
• Philosophy


  A science of knowledge, it deals with understanding the origin of knowledge, it seeks to answer the question related to existence, practice, and behavior
• Criteria for personhood

  • Consciousness
  • Reasoning
  • Self-motivated activity
  • Capacity to communicate
  • Self-awareness
• Sentience


  The ability to feel pleasure and pain (Peter Singer's view on personhood)
• Gradient theory of personhood


  Personhood comes in a degree, you are either more of a person or less of a person
• Anthropological Philosophy


  • Seeks to understand the nature of human, or its essence, and what knowledge human beings are reasonably expected to have and act upon
• Psychological Philosophy


  • Deals with understanding how the mind works and what mold the behavior
• Sociological Philosophy


  • Explains the importance of socialization as a person, and that every individual is a member of at least one group or class
• Branches of Moral Philosophy


  • Meta-ethics
  • Normative ethics
  • Applied ethics
• Philosophical Foundations of Education

  • Existentialism
  • Essentialism
  • Behaviorism
  • Perennialism
  • Constructivism
  • Progressivism
• Existentialism


  • Focuses on allowing teachers to help students understand and appreciate themselves, teach how to accept full responsibility for their thoughts, feelings, and actions, help students define their own essence and purpose, expose students to various paths available for them, and create environment where students are free to choose
• Essentialism


  • Focuses on allowing teachers to teach traditional approach that emphasizes basic or fundamental skills in life, teach curriculum centered subjects, make itself the center of learning and be perceive as giver of knowledge and paragon of virtues, and make students acquire full mastery of the lesson
• Behaviorism


  • Concerns with modification and shaping students' behavior, teachers must create classroom atmosphere/climate that is conducive for learning (physical and psychological), and integrate tangible incentives to students to boost their confidence in class
• Perennialism


  • Allows students to develop rational and moral powers, curriculum is a universal one on the view that all human beings possess the same essential nature, subjects such as humanities, history, literature, and religion are highlighted, and history is recurrent, where past events are possible to happen again
• Constructivism


  • Seeks to develop learners that are intrinsically motivated and independent which are adequately equipped with learning skills enabling them to construct knowledge and make meaning of them, teachers are allowing students to learn for themselves
• Progressivism


  • Focuses on teaching learners to become enlightened and intelligent citizens of a democratic society, identified as need-based and relevant curriculum, teachers are focused on giving substantial experience to students rather than giving lectures, and students learn better from actual experience rather than reading books
• Essentialism (essence precedes existence)

  The founders of this philosophy are William Bagley and James Koemer. This philosophy gave birth to the belief of destiny and fate, essentialist believe that even before birth, you already have your own fate. They pivot in believing that everything that happens are of reasons, your future self, your future spouses, your fate in life. Essentialist focuses on preparing students by acquiring basic skills and knowledge for their future self. In terms of education, this philosophy focuses on allowing teachers to:
• Existentialism (existence precedes essence)

  The founders of this philosophy are Jean Paul Sarte and Soren Keirgeraad. This philosophy implies that your existence comes before your essence, logically, you won’t have essence if you are not existing. Existentialist believes that man can choose how to live, decide how to act, and make own rationality of life. In terms of education, this philosophy focuses on allowing teachers to:
• Behaviorism


  Change in behavior is a sign of learning
• Founders of behaviorism


  • John Watson
  • B.F. Skinner
• Behaviorism

  Philosophy concerns with modification and shaping students' behavior
• Classroom atmosphere/climate

  • Physical climate (light, temperature, size, quantity of visual aids, arrangement of furniture)
  • Psychological climate (feelings of students in presence of teacher and classmates, students feel respected, welcomed, and supported)
• Application of behavioral philosophy


  Integrate tangible incentives to students to boost their confidence in class
• Perennialism


  Philosophy that believes truth is universal
• Perennialism


  • Founders are Robert Hutchins and Mortimer Adler
  • Believes in ageless, timeless, and universal truth
  • Believes what is true in one area must be true to other as well
  • Allows students to develop rational and moral powers
• Perennialism


  • Teacher-centered, it does not focus on students experience and thoughts
• Constructivism (schemas)


  Philosophy where individuals construct new knowledge from their experiences through assimilation and accommodation
• Assimilation


  Absorbing new information and experience that is being incorporated into our pre-existing ideas
• Accommodation


  The process of replacing old belief or information into new one
• Constructivists


  • Seek to develop learners that are intrinsically motivated and independent
  • Adequately equipped with learning skills enabling them to construct knowledge and make meaning of them
• Student-centered education


  Teachers allowing students to learn for themselves
• The formalization of constructivism was attributed to Jean Piaget
• Progressivism (learning by doing)

  The founder of this philosophy is John Dewey. Focuses on teaching learners to become enlightened and intelligent citizens of a democratic society. This philosophy is identified as need-based and relevant curriculum. In progressivist curriculum, the teacher is focused on giving substantial experience to students rather than giving lectures. Teachers also believe that students learn better from actual experience rather than reading books.
• 17 Sustainable Development Goals

   1. No Poverty 

  2. Zero Hunger 

  3. Good Health and Well-Being 

  4. Quality Education  

  5. Gender Equality  

  6. Clean Water and Sanitation  

  7. Affordable and Clean Energy  

  8. Decent Work and Economic Growth  

  9. Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure 

  10. Reduced Inequalities 

  11. Sustainable Cities and Communities 

  12. Responsible Consumption and Production 

  13. Climate Action  

  14. Life Below Water 

  15. Life on Land 

  16. Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions  

  17. Partnership for the Goals