Abstract:

This is an overview of my teaching philosophy and some factors that influence my thinking and ideas. This teaching philosophy evolved from a perception of education as it relates to the operative and cooperative arts. One can say that my philosophical viewpoints on education are somewhat eclectic as they relate to the operative versus cooperative arts question. I tend to believe that effective educators should look upon the operative and cooperative arts as being synmbiotic, in the sense that one cooperates with both the established canons of a society and the existing natural laws of human learning. By having established a well-thought out theory or philosophy, people tend to know more what they are doing and why.

 

Keywords:

teaching philosophy, reflective thoughts

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