My Philosophy Survey

During this course we were exposed to plenty of information about different kinds of philosophies that are both western and eastern. However this survey was done based on different types of philosophers who had their own thoughts and philosophies toward educational curriculum. However I had to do this small survey that consists of 24 questions and was distributed among 2 schools in which 18 teachers had accepted to participate an fill in this simple survey. My questioner had a specific purpose in which I was able to hopefully identify what kinds of philosophies that teachers use as they purchase teaching.

My objective was to check the effects of years of experience among different types of teachers that vary between science, Math, Geography, Art and handcraft, English and Arabic as well.

However the analysis of this survey is divided into 4 parts . 1^st part is about Science , Math, Geography, Arts and Science teachers who had experienced teaching from 1-4 years. What I noticed about this group is that they tend to be more idealist more than all other groups. They a percent of 66 for following the idealist philosophy in which they base most of their teaching acts on intuition and thinking, which is less in the percentage than those teachers of same subjects but with more years of experience that varies between 5 to 10 years. These last mentioned used to be more eastern in their philosophical educational curriculum. However this result is dependence and based on the increasing years of experience in which old experienced teachers used to be more stick to the eastern philosophy. On the other hand a same percent of teachers that has a percent of 14 that is equally distributed among two types of philosophies which are the pragmatic and the realistic ones.

 For another two different groups that I had to distinguish between the constant subjects  Arabic and English, but with different variability which are related to years of experience. One of them is for teachers who experienced teaching from 1-4, the other one in from 5-25 years of experience. Accordingly, the first group as I discovered, tends to be more capable of applying principles and thoughts of modern philosophy which is the pragmatic philosophy. Teachers who follow this philosophy in their educational system and curriculum tends to rely on allowing and encourage students to experience everything and learn by themselves. This didn't have a very high percentage but it’s the highest among the use of pragmatic philosophy in all other groups that I've mentioned previously which is 22% . However my survey revealed yet that the highest percentage of teachers whose under this set (1-4 years of experience) are being mostly idealist in their application of teaching philosophies. In addition only 14% of these teachers tends to apply the eastern philosophy, which is a very low percent in comparison with other groups. This shows that new teachers tend to follow and adopt the western philosophies more that the eastern one. But on the other hand 24% of these teachers are adopting the realistic philosophy in which they rely on matter and mind as a way for teaching and encourage students to use mind and matter over thinking and intuition which is the main principle in the realistic philosophy. This percentage was only shown in this specified group of  Arabic and English teachers  who are new in their teaching mission.  

          For the final group which is related to Arabic and English  teachers whose been teaching from 5-25 years old whom tend to mostly adopt the idealist philosophy which had the highest percentage among this group 46%. This shows that old and relatively more experienced teachers are with the applicable use of thinking and intuition over matter and mind, which is an old philosophy but as we saw its being highly used among several groups that I had the survey on. In contrary a same range of percentage which is 12 only is distributed among two types of philosophies the pragmatic and realistic ones. I was surprised for having such contradictory results maybe this is due to distributing the survey sheets among two different schools of different cultures and way of life. I noticed that culture play an important role in the teaching strategy and use of philosophies, since realistic is a very old philosophy while pragmatic is a new one that had old base, but it still a modern philosophy that is not widely adopted by teachers and specifically old literate teachers.

What is obviously discovered among this group in comparison to the other ones is its highest percentage of teachers who are following the eastern philosophy 30%. Actually it’s a high surprising result which shows that the more experienced teacher and specially the literature teachers are tending to be more eastern curriculum teachers.