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PHILOSOPHY OF TEACHING
I. INTRODUCTION Teaching as a social construct has suffered in the transformation from conventionality to politically correct. The extent to which instructors must be reminded of its philosophy and holistic composition is both grand and far-reaching; that teachers today are academically restricted to follow limiting administrative mandates speaks to how the fundamental concept and application of teaching has been downsized to incorporate only what is deemed socially and politically appropriate. There are those instructors and administrators, however, who fully understand the critical nature of hands-on, expansive education and do everything they can to incorporate an abundance of methods to reach each individual in their classrooms.
Although good teaching is informed by theories of how students learn and often relies on some proven practices and methods…it is impossible to argue that all good teachers use similar techniques (Gordon, 2008, p. 322).
II. PHILOSOPHY The ontological and epistemological underpinnings of education philosophies address the aspects of knowledge and interpretation as they directly relate to the concepts of existence and meaning. Considered to be an artful form of understanding, hermeneutics is categorized as a textual analysis process whereby historic and sociocultural effects upon which inquiry is focused. Therefore, it is important to realize that when ontological and epistemological underpinnings of education are discussed, they are poised to address the interpretation of life, language and humanity's place within it all.
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As such, attempting to interpret knowledge, language and meaning is to draw from the innermost recesses of one's existence.
Hermeneutics is thus for the hardy. It is a radical thinking which is suspicious of the easy way out, which is especially suspicious that philosophy, which is metaphysics, i