Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Human development theory is a theory which uses ideas from different origins, such as ecology, sustainable development, feminism and welfare economics. It wants to avoid normative politics and is focused on how social capital and instructional capital can be deployed to optimize the overall value of human capital in an economy.
Education's purpose was to produce civic efficiency and political leadership and therefore, the ability to speak well and persuade became the cornerstone of his educational theory. [25] However, at the time there was no definite curriculum for Higher Education, with only the existence of the sophists who were constantly traveling. [23]
First page of a 1566 edition of the Aristotolic Ethics in Greek and Latin. The Nicomachean Ethics (/ ˌ n aɪ k ɒ m ə ˈ k i ə n, ˌ n ɪ-/; Ancient Greek: Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia) is Aristotle's best-known work on ethics: the science of the good for human life, that which is the goal or end at which all our actions aim. [1]:
Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle statue. Few have left such a great impact on history as Aristotle. As a philosopher, he has heavily impacted how humans think and navigate the world.
Only fragments of Aristotle's treatise On Education are still in existence. We thus know of his philosophy of education primarily through brief passages in other works. Aristotle considered human nature, habit and reason to be equally important forces to be cultivated in education.
Relational Developmental Systems proposes that human development cannot be understood without understanding the multiple relationships between individuals and their biological, psychological, social and historical contexts. [7] [3] It therefore rejects the idea that development is primarily influenced by one factor, such as genetics.
Humanistic education has its roots in Renaissance philosophers who emphasised the study of the humanities: grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry, and moral philosophy; these in turn built upon Classical models of education. [9] The growing Humanist-inspired emphasis on education in Scotland culminated with the passing of the Education Act 1496.
The School of Aristotle, by Gustav Adolph Spangenberg The German-American classicist Werner Jaeger used the concept of paideia to trace the development of Greek thought and education from Homer to Demosthenes in Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture , [ 4 ] Aristotelian philosopher Mortimer Adler gives a paideia proposal in his criticism of ...