John Locke
John Locke
John Locke
KNOW HIM?
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What is He known for?
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centered learning
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What is He known for?
Advocate of Advocate
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centered learning
learning
What is He known for?
Identify His
different
contributions to
education.
Bibliograph
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• Born in 1632 in Wrington,
• Regarded
Somerset as one of the most
influential enlightenment
thinkers and father of
classical liberalism
• Economist, political
operative, physician, oxford
scholar and medical
researcher and one of the
great philosophers of the
17th and 18th century.
• Between 1652 and 1667, He
was a student and a lecturer
at Christ Church, Oxford,
where he focused on the
standard curriculum of logic,
metaphysics and classics.
• Studied medicine extensively
and was an associate of
Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke
and other leading Oxford
• scientist.
Wrote several essay that
address politics, science, and
education.
• One of the most popular
essay is “Essay Concerning
Human Understanding”
• Died on October 28, 1704 at
the age of 72
Essay concerning
Human
understanding
• Published in 1689
• Outlined a theory of human and “The treatises of
Government” knowledge, identity, and selfhood.
• One of the first great defenses of modern empiricism
and concerns itself with determining the limits of
human understanding in respect a wide spectrum of
topics.
• Not offered as a contribution to knowledge itself but as
a means of clearing away some intellectual rubbish that
stands in the way of knowledge.
Innate
Ideas
Tabula
Rasa
Innate
Ideas
Tabula
Rasa
Book II
• Locke holds that the mind is a
“Tabula Rasa” or Blank sheet until
experience in the form of sensation
and reflection.
• Believed that people are born with
a variety of faculties to receive and
abiities to manipulate or process
the content once we acquire it.
Contributions to Education
• Locke treated children as
human beings in whom the
gradual development of
rationality needed to be
fostered by parents.
• Learning should be gradual
process, slow and
cumulative.
• Discusses the true secret of
education being, we should
induce children to want to
learn.
• Play is part of learning.
• He warned against making
learning a task or something
students have to do.
• Develop a desire for learning
that continues beyond the
walls of the classroom and
beyond the compulsory
period of schooling.
• There is a needed to be
balance between rewards and
punishments.
• Contributed to modern
education: learning by doing
and interaction with the
environment.
• Advocated for the earliest
forms of student-centered
learning.
Empiricism
Implications to
Education
Teachers should simplify
lesson, sympathetically
answers naive questions.
Expose children to
different sensory activities
Teachers should have
some elements of “fun” in
the classroom