Examining Educational Theorists and Current Practice Today

Examining the educational theorist and the present practical abstract This article chose three educational theorists, Benjamin Bloom, Jean Piaget and Levy Vygotsky, and tried to study their most famous theory. These are the educational goals of Bloom, cognitive development of Piaget, and the near-term development of Vygotsky. After briefly explaining each theory, compare it with another theory. Finally, the author ponders on the practical application of these theories in the classroom environment and discusses how these philosophies fit the authors' current practice.

The setting is to carefully examine the inequality and injustice that often occurs in the education itself. As we all know, critical theorists of education track the corruption of their origins by revealing institutional structure and inequality processes in educational practice. Critical theorists simply can not be satisfied simply by observing and explaining discriminatory practices in education and trying to revolutionize the educational process by suggesting recommendations that make them more equal (Gibson, 1986). Among the new social inequalities, New Marxism includes the status and power in the analysis of traditional Marxism. Apple (1979) and Giroux (1981), famous criticism educational theorists, formed a comprehensive critique education theory centered on various forms of governance (Gibson, 1986).

Conflict theory thinks that the purpose of education is to maintain social inequality and to maintain the power of those who rule society. Conflicting theorists believe that functionalist has the same function as education. Functionalists believe that education is a beneficial contribution to orderly society, but conflict theorists believe that the educational system permanates the present situation by transforming the lower class into a compliant worker . Both functionalist and conflict theorists agree on ordering the educational system, but they do not agree on how it is ranked. Functionalists argue that schools are ranked according to their merits and conflict theorists believe that schools are divided along different classes and races. According to conflict theorists, the school is training working classes to accept the status as a low member of the social class. Conflict theorists call this educational role "hidden road".