At the beginning of class we learned about Haberma’s three paradigms; empirical analytical, situational theoretic, and critical theoretic. These different points of view can be applied to many situations, including education. Education can be looked at from all of these perspectives and as a teacher it will be important to keep this in mind.
This link is to a website that supports the idea that students eating breakfast leads them to be better students. This website is using an empirical analytical or scientific approach to this aspect of education. Schools are even starting to implement free breakfast programs because of this idea. My high school implemented a program like this in the last three years that I attended.
This link is to a website that talks about the link between social skills and academic achievement. It concludes that they are linked and I found several other websites that shared this conclusion. Linking social skills to academic achievement is a situation interpretive way of looking at education. A situational interpretive view uses lived experiences and looks at things subjectively. While this point of view is situational interpretive, they use scientific thinking to come to this conclusion. This demonstrates that the paradigms are interconnected.
This link is to a website that takes a critical theoretical point of view on education. Critical theoretic takes the point of view that reality is concealed. While it is a less common way of looking at education, the point of view is still present.
Overall I think it is important to keep these three paradigms in mind when entering the field of education. There is different ways at looking at every situation. As a teacher I might apply a empirical approach to some of my teaching strategies, or a situational interpretive approach to others. Or in some cases the paradigms can work together.
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