This document discusses the philosophy of reconstructionism and its key proponents. Reconstructionism questions existing standards and aims to provide new perspectives on social issues. It believes the purpose of education is to reconstruct society and address cultural problems. The founder was Theodore Brameld, and other notable reconstructionists included George Counts, who believed schools should bring about social change, and Paolo Freire, who saw education and literacy as vehicles for social change. Reconstructionism has historical roots in the works of philosophers like Plato who envisioned education rebuilding just states.

1. RECONSTRUCTIONISM AND
EDUCATION
a. The Nature of reconstructionism
b. Reconstructionism as it relates to Experimentalism and Social Change
c. . The Semilarities and contrast of the metaphisical, epistemological and axiological
d. Position of Reconstruction to Idealism and Realism
Implications of reconstruction for the goals of education, curriculum and istruction

2. MEMORY GAME
Theodore Burghard Hurt Brameld
“Founder of reconstructionism”
George Counts Paolo Freire
“Education does not change
the world, education changes
the people who will change
the world”
“Schools should bring about
social change”

3. WHO IS THIS
RECONSTRUCTIONIST?

4. PAOLO FREIRE

5. FOUNDER OF RECONSTRUCTIONISM

6. FOUNDER OF RECONSTRUCTIONISM
Theodore Burghard Hurt Brameld

7. GEORGE COUNTS BELIEVES
THAT___________________________________
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8. GEORGE COUNTS BELIEVED THAT “SCHOOLS
SHOULD BRING ABOUT SOCIAL CHANGE”.

9. WHAT IS RECONSTRUCTIONISM?
•Two key terms in this term. From the prefix ‘’re”
means “again” so constructing again and
constructionism comes from “construct” so in other
what this philosophy really deals with
reconstructing knowledge for the students.

10. WHAT IS RECONSTRUCTIONISM?
- A philosophical approach that questions
essentialism and other rigid and dogmatic
standpoints. It questions the existing standards in
order to provide new perspectives to the social,
political , economical and other related issues.

11. WHAT IS RECONSTRUCTIONISM?
•Also known as SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTIONISM ,
this theory claims to be the true successor of
progressivism and declares that the chief
purpose of education is to “ RECONSTRUCT”
society in order to meet the cultural crisis
brought about by social, political, and
economic problems.

12. SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTIONISM?
is a philosophy that emphasizes the
addressing of social questions and a quest to
create a better society and worldwide
democracy. Typically a Reconstructionist
focuses on a curriculum that highlights social
reform as the aim of education.

13. PHILOSOPHICAL ROOT
•PRAGMATISM
- a reasonable and logical way of doing
things or thinking about problems that
is based on dealing with specific
situations instead of ideas and theories

14. WHO IS THE FOUNDER OF SOCIAL
RECONSTUCTIONISM?

15. FOUNDER OF SOCIAL RECONSTUCTIONISM

16. • * Theodore Brameld ( 1904-1987)
• was considered the founder of social reconstructionism.
• he recognized the potential for either human annihilation through
technology and human cruelty.
• and the use technology and human compassion to create a
beneficent society

17. • He founded social reconstructionism as a response to the
horrors of World War II
• He was a leading educational philosopher of the 20th century
• An American educator and an education philosopher.
• He believed that education had the responsibility to mold
human beings into a cohesive and compassionate society

18. NOTABLE
CONSTRUCTIVIST

19. GEORGE COUNTS (1889-1974)

20. •- recognized that education was the means
of preparing people for creating this new
social order.
•believed that schools should bring about
social change.
GEORGE COUNTS (1889-1974)

21. PAOLO FREIRE( 1921- 1997)

22. PAOLO FREIRE( 1921- 1997)
• a Brazilian whose experiences living in poverty led him to
champion education and literacy as the vehicle for social
change
• humans must learn to resist oppression and not become
its victims, nor oppress others.
• saw teaching and learning as a process of inquiry in which
the child must invent and reinvent the world.
• “Education does not change the world, education changes
the people who will change the world”

23. • Reconstructionist ideas in one form or another have existed
throughout history.
• Plato, in preparing his design for a future state, was a
“reconstructionist” philosopher. He outlined a plan for a just
state in which education would become the building material
for a new and better society. In his book, Laws, he
envisioned a time when interest charges would be forbidden,
profits would be limited, and human beings would live as
friends.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF
RECONSTRUCTIONISM

24. • Stoic philosophers,
• particularly in their concern for a word state, promoted a
reconstructionist ideal
• Marcus Aurelius,
• a Roman emperor and philosopher, maintained that he was
a citizen of the world, not of Rome. This concept is one of
the reconstructionist articulate today in their attempts to
minimize nationalistic fervour and chauvinism.

25. • Agustine preached reconstructionist reforms to bring
about an ideal Christian state through his book The
City of God.
• Thomas More, Thomas Campanella, Johann Valentin
Andreae, Samuel Gott and other Christian utopian
writers also proposed things we might do to bring the
state into better accord with Christian thinking.

26. • Robert Owen and Edward Bellamy were part of the
industrial revolution, but saw the use of technology
not only for the production of wealth, but for
improving the lot of humanity throughout the world.
• Karl Marx, decrying the harm done to workers by the
dehumanization of the industrial system, who pictured
a reconstructed world based on international
communism

27. • B.F. Skinner advocates the use of conditioning or “
behavioral engineering “ in his book Walden Two. In
his Beyond Freedom and Dignity, Skinner
maintains that people cannot afford freedom in
the traditional sense and that they must engineer
a new social order based on a technology of
behavior.
• Horace Mann and John Dewey view education as a
tool for reform.
•

28. MODERN RECONSTRUCTIONISM
• Modern reconstructionism is basically pragmatic and owes a tremendous debt to
Dewey. Reconstructionists promotes such things as the scientific method, problem
solving, naturalism and humanism; however, reconstructionists diverse from
pragmatists in how they believe the pragmatic method should be used.
• Although pragmatism advocates continuous change and a forward- looking
approach to the problems of people and society it has become a tool for helping
people adjust to society rather than change it.
• Education , from the reconstructionist’s view, is a tool for immediate and continuous
change.

29. PURPOSE OF SCHOOLING
• Critically examine all cultural and educational institutions and
recommended change and reform as needed.
• To teach students and the public not to settle for “ what is”
but rather to dream about “what might be”
• Prepare students to become agents for change.

30. REFFERENCE
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