Introduction to Teaching Terminologies

Health education is a combination of learning experiences designed to help individuals and communities improve their health by increasing knowledge and influencing attitudes.

Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health, focusing on broader social and environmental interventions.

Health literacy refers to the capacity of individuals to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services necessary for making health decisions.

<p>Knowledge is defined as the facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education related to health subjects.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Skills are the abilities acquired through deliberate efforts to carry out complex activities involving cognitive, technical, and interpersonal functions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Teaching is a process that helps people learn by communicating a message in a meaningful way to prompt changes in their behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Learning is the act of gaining new knowledge, behaviors, skills, and values, or modifying existing ones through various actions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A learner is someone, especially a child, who learns from a teacher or acquires new knowledge and beliefs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Education involves receiving or providing systematic instruction and acquiring general knowledge or skills.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The key elements of the teaching process include communication, imparting knowledge or skills, and prompting behavioral changes in learners.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The primary focus of idealism in education is to lead individuals to the highest moral conduct and deepest spiritual insight.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>According to idealism, the purpose of education is to convert the original nature of man into spiritual nature.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Naturalism asserts that all things supernatural, such as gods and spirits, do not exist.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In naturalism, mental properties are viewed as causally derived from non-mental properties and are ontologically dependent on them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Naturalism is also known as Metaphysical Naturalism, Philosophical Naturalism, or Ontological Naturalism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It influences what and how students are taught.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Philos, meaning love, and Sophia, meaning wisdom.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It explains how educational theories arise and helps in guiding and critiquing their development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To draw out and realize potential.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The purpose of schooling, a teacher's role, what should be taught, and by what methods.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Physicalism is the belief that everything that exists is solely made up of physical properties and that only physical substances exist.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Pluralism posits that reality consists of various substances, including abstract objects and universals, in addition to physical interactions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Some Pre-Socratic philosophers include Thales, Anaxagoras, and Democritus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Naturalism denies the existence of supernatural beings or forces, while Supernaturalism accepts such entities as real.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The rise and dominance of Christianity led to a decline in secular philosophical thought, including Naturalism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To enable humanity to develop and improve.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It emphasizes that nothing exists except an idea in the mind.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'Educere' signifies bringing up while 'educare' signifies nurturing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The mind or spirit as experienced by individuals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Plato.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It became heretical and eventually illegal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Age of Enlightenment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It promoted genuine free thought and challenged traditional beliefs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It imposed restrictions on scientific and philosophical exploration.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The importance of historical shifts in philosophy and science.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The primary goal of teaching is to induce a behavioral change in the learners.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Learning is the act of acquiring new knowledge or modifying existing knowledge through various experiences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A learner is someone who takes up knowledge or skills and engages in the educational experience.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Education is the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction at institutions such as schools or universities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Education prepares individuals by imparting general knowledge, reasoning skills, and judgment capabilities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It suggests that we should assume any unexplained fact has a natural explanation until proven otherwise.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It argues that naturalist hypotheses explain scientifically unexplained facts more effectively, with fewer assumptions than supernatural alternatives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It claims that the supernatural is so silent and inert that its effects are rarely observed despite extensive searching.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It focuses on the evidence that the human mind is a product of a functioning brain evolved from physical systems.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It emphasizes that the formation of intelligent life through natural processes is plausible based on the vast age and size of the universe.</p> Signup and view all the answers