On Progressivism

Philosophy of Education: On Progressivism

Joshua Caesar O. Elegado, 3^rd Year Philosophy

University of Santo Tomas-Legazpi, Philippines

People learns or and acquires knowledge through their experience in reality, for Progressivist, learning is acquired through doing, that is accommodated in reflective learning to attain appropriate competencies that is needed in a certain level of a person of a learner, in effect, it basically begs the question to how a student progresses at the very end of the day. It is basically an experimentative system to where learners are expected to perform or exercise what is in their head and from that basis, we come to an evaluation from the output a person or a student has made. To analyze, it is given that the main point of a progressivist education is basically about an outcome-based system of education, to where we are to evaluate the competencies of a person or a learner that merely depends on the output, he/she has given. However, if we are to consider the learning evaluation, the result does not necessarily be manifested in outcome, but rather, to some extent, it varies from the individual strengths to individuals’ capacity, the point here is that, there are things that are not measurable, therefore, we cannot be sure that the only criteria for the evaluation for students are only to be found in his/hers output to begin with. To implicate, human as we are, are but a lot of things, we all are different and unique, has different strengths and weakness, we cannot just be judged in a way that is only one dimensional, we cannot be defined by what we do, because we are just all built differently.