MAKING CHANGES BELIEFS    1300w

When I started the class of philosophy of education, I didn’t know what important it is to know about it. This importance for me is more for others because there are people that strongly believe in the impact that philosophy of education has in society. As Nodding’s words (2020), philosophy of education is “the philosophical study of education and its problems...its central subject matter is education, and its methods are those of philosophy “. In other words, philosophy of education has something to do with beliefs and ways to educated imply by philosophers through the history.

Therefore, there are five philosophers that caught my attention in the way that they explained their beliefs about education. The first one is Maria Montessori (1870-1952). This woman dedicated her worked with “phrenastheric” children, which means children with mental retardation, illness, and disability. If se dedicated her work for this, that’s mean that she studied about mental illness in children. Is interesting for me have realized that she expands her work with women´s right. Why is so important