CORRELATIONAL REVIEW ON CORE BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION

Abstract

It appears that the study of philosophy in most academic institutions in Nigeria is merely done on the grounds that it has been designed in the curriculum as one of the courses that would be taken either as a general course, core course or elective course and for the sake of meeting the credit load requirements for graduation; without full understanding of the relationship that exist between aspects of philosophy and education. In this paper therefore, the writer reviewed the relationship between the branches of philosophy and education. Analytic and discussion methods are applied in the paper as the writer interprets and removes ambiguity of the concepts and issues that are involved in the discourse. It was established as deduced from the views of different scholars on the issue under review, that great relationship exist between philosophy and education and lack of understanding of this fact makes it difficult to apply the tenets of both disciplines well in the course teaching and learning. Based on the foregoing, the writer suggested among other things that all aspects of philosophy should be effectively taught where applicable in Nigerian educational institutions in such a way that the knowledge inherent in it would be accessible to the recipients of education. Keywords: Philosophy and Education