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What is your educational philosophy? Modern and postmodern approaches to foreign language education

dc.contributor.authorUzun, Levent
dc.contributor.buuauthorUZUN, LEVENT
dc.contributor.departmentEğitim Fakültesi
dc.contributor.departmentYabancı Diller Eğitimi
dc.contributor.departmentİngiliz Dili Eğitimi Bölümü
dc.contributor.researcheridI-6741-2019
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-23T08:38:22Z
dc.date.available2024-10-23T08:38:22Z
dc.date.issued2012-10-01
dc.description.abstractThe present study discusses the concepts of education and training, while also highlighting the paradigm wars of the positivistic and naturalistic views, beginning with the age of ancient philosophies and continuing to the latest era of postmodernism. Additionally, language education is examined considering the linguistic and educational fundamentals which all need to be based on and combined by a philosophy. The research in foreign language (FL) education is evaluated from both the teaching and learning perspectives in order to reach conclusions concerning the current situation and the requisites of futuristic and innovative FL education. What is my educational philosophy? is proposed as a key question that not only FL teachers but also all educators should ask themselves; a question that will guide teachers throughout their entire lives and illuminate their minds throughout their teaching practice. Teacher and learner roles are discussed in order to determine whether teachers or learners should come first in the process of education. It is emphasised that the philosophical perspectives of education urgently need to be built into the minds of educators prior to asking them to convey knowledge of any kind or to apply the materials of a specific teaching method. The study concludes with the observation that there exists a serious discrepancy between the needs, preferences and interests of the learners and the views held by educational decision makers, who seem to fail to catch up with the trends in technology and globalisation.
dc.identifier.doi10.14746/ssllt.2012.2.3.4
dc.identifier.endpage348
dc.identifier.issn2083-5205
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.startpage333
dc.identifier.urihttps://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt/article/view/5123
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11452/46908
dc.identifier.volume2
dc.identifier.wos000219697000004
dc.indexed.wosWOS.ESCI
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAdam Mickiewicz Univ
dc.relation.journalStudies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectPhilosophy of education
dc.subjectForeign language education
dc.subjectTeaching versus learning
dc.subjectEducation versus training
dc.subjectPostmodern approaches to education
dc.subjectLinguistics
dc.titleWhat is your educational philosophy? Modern and postmodern approaches to foreign language education
dc.typeArticle
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local.contributor.departmentEğitim Fakültesi/Yabancı Diller Eğitimi/İngiliz Dili Eğitimi Bölümü
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