A CONCEPTUAL CLARIFICATION OF IDEALIST PHILOSOPHY AND ITS BEARING ON EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
| dc.contributor.author | DR. TOWOJU KAYODE TIMOTHY | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-04-07T13:01:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-04-07T13:01:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-07 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The paper examined a conceptual clarification of idealist philosophy and its bearing on the early childhood education. The clarification is based on the three dimensional elements of philosophy such as metaphysics (reality), epistemology (knowledge and axiology (values). These are the facilitators of skills developments in all human beings. The clarification further premised on that fact that children minds are always active and attracted towards all things that they come across within their surroundings. This becomes necessary because, education needs to focus on the philosophy of self-realization to deliver the good life its purported in all society. The idealist philosophy is the most suitable because it explains how children can be helped or assisted to acquire the goal of self realization gradually. This is based on the fact that the early childhood education is all embracing as it focuses on the critical development of children to acquire some developmental skills and concepts during stipulated period of time. The skills they facilitate includes, identification counting, recitation as well as other-social emotional skills to the beginning of numeracy, literacy and actual thinking. All these educational activities assist children to acquire behavioural patterns and abilities necessary for effective social relations in future. The paper could be of great importance to all stakeholders in education who needs to train their children on the values of knowledge. The paper concluded that the idealist philosophy contains certain kinds of experience which could enrich the child’s life to breed self realization and hence, social integration gradually. The paper recommended that the curriculum of the early childhood education should embrace the philosophy of self-realization so that the child should be able to relate his learning experience with early later experience in life. | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2354-3930 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://kwasuspace.kwasu.edu.ng/handle/123456789/4963 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.title | A CONCEPTUAL CLARIFICATION OF IDEALIST PHILOSOPHY AND ITS BEARING ON EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION | |
| dc.type | Article |