What’s Philosophy got to do with it?

This question was used to start our discussion on educational philosophy. We were to examine our own thoughts on education by using the PAEI, and then to engage in a discussion that attempted to classify our collaboratively derived course values by philosophy. I like that our group has people of diverse backgrounds. We never settled on one philosophy that encompassed all aspects of our course values. However, there seemed to be a consensus that the educational values derived fall under Progressive and Humanist philosophies. Several side discussions of interest also came up as part of our discussion. One was whether or not corporate training environments were always Behaviorist in nature. Group members gave examples to…