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THE PROJECT METHOD OF TEACHING (BY: DABO EUCLID AMMEL)

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    The project method is a medium of instruction which was introduced during the 18th century into the schools of architecture and engineering in Europe when graduating students had to apply the skills and knowledge they had learned in the course of their studies to problems they had to solve as practicing of their trade, for example, designing a monument, building a steam engine etc. This method was been derived from John Deweys ideas on education which emphasizes that education should not just be an attempts of preparing the child for a future that is unknown, but rather, it should be able to fit the child into the society that he or she is living in. In the early 20th Century, William Heard Kilpatrick expanded the project method into a philosophy of education. His device is child-centered and based in progressive education. Both approaches are used by teachers worldwide to this day. Unlike traditional education, proponents of the project method attempt to allow th...

Hegel’s Philosophy and Influences

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Hegel is the most influential of the three major German Idealists after Kant (the others are Johan Fitche and Friedrich Schelling). He achieved wide renown in his day and, while primarily influential within the continental tradition of philosophy, he also became increasingly influential in the Analytic tradition as well. Hegel has influenced many thinkers and writers whose own positions vary widely like, Karl Barth described Hegel as a “Protestant Aquinas”, while Maurice Merleau- Ponty wrote that “all the great philosophical ideas of the past century- the philosophies of Marx and Nietzche, Phenomenology, German existentialism, and psychoanalysis had their beginnings in Hegel.  Hegel’s influenced was immense both within philosophy and in the other sciences. Throughout the 19th century many chairs of philosophy around Europe were held by Hegelians, and Soren Kierkegaard, Ludwig Feuerbach, Marx, and Friedrich Engels- among many others were deeply influenced by, but also strongly oppos...