EXISTENTIALISM

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EXISTENTIALISM

• BY THE GOLD CIRCLE

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Beliefs about Teaching and Learning

• Existentialism respects the student as
• an individual as a learner.
• Encourages responsible
• decision making and choices.
• Strives to expose the learner
• to everything in Humanities.
• The teacher is the guide and
• facilitator who offers options to the
• students.

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Beliefs about the Students

• Students should have the freedom to decide their
  own beliefs and values based on individual
  learning experiences.
• Students should be given the option to pursue
  their own interests while being guided by the
  teacher or instructor.

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How should Students gain knowledge?

• Truth is determined by the individual.
• The student determines when the understanding is
  complete by their own satisfaction.
• Existentialism classrooms generally teach through
  a variety of visual aids
• Concept maps, television, web pages,
  
• powerpoint, compositions, and
  reports.
• The students decides which avenues they want to
  pursue in order to gain and collect knowledge.

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Influential People

• Jean Paul Sartre
• Man is nothing except what he makes
  of himself.
• Soren Kierkegaard
• I must find the truth that is the truth
  for methe idea
• for which I can live or die.
• Considered the first writer to call
  himself existential.
• Martin Heidegger The most influential of the
  German
• existentialist philosophers.
• www.members.aol.com/KatharenaE/private/Philo/phil
  o.htm

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Examples of Existentialism

• A. S. Niell
• Summerhill School
• Reflections
• Science Fair

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