Philosophies

A- Scholar Academic Philosophy
    believes that:
     - Schools should be communities where youth learns the knowledge accumulated by their culture.
     - The teacher should be a knowledgable person who transmits that which is known to those who do not know it.
     - Learning best proceeds when the teacher clearly presents to the student that knowledge that the student is expected to acquire.
     - The knowledge of most worth is the structured knowledge and ways of thinking that have come to be valued by the culture over time.

B- Child Study Philosophy
     believes that:
     - Schools should be enjoyable places where children develop naturally according to their felt needs.
     - Teachers should be companions to students who use the environment within which the student lives to help the student learn.
     - Learning best takes place when, as the result of creative self-expression on the part of the child, the child him/herself makes sense out of his/her insteractions with the environment.
     - The knowledge of most worth is the personal knowledge of oneself and one's world that comes from one's own direct experience in the world and one's personal responses to such experience.

C- Social Reconstruction Philosophy
     bellieves that:
     - Schools should facilitate the construction of a new and more just social order.
     - Teachers should be aids to students who can help them learn by presenting them with experiences from which they can make meaning.
     - Learning best occurs when a student confronts a real social crisis and participates in the construction of a solution to that crisis.
     - The knowledge of most worth is a set of social ideals, a commitment to those ideals, and an understanding of how to go about implementing those ideals.

D- Social Efficiency Philosophy
     believes that:
     - Schools should efficiently fulfill the needs of society by training youth to function as mature, constructive members of society.
     - The teacher should be the supervisor of student learning who utilizes instructional strategies that will optimize student learning.
     - Learning best proceeds when the student is presented with the right stimulus materials and judicious reinforcement.
     - The knowledge of most worth are those specific skills and capabilities for action that allow the indivisual to live a constructive life.