Behaviorism

After the World War I, most of the western countries faced economic regression. Afterwards, the only tool for resolving this regression and crisis was seen as the increasing productivity. So, for the economic growth the industrial revolution with the help of scientific inventions was considered as the best way. At that time different methods like lean production, batch production, mass production, etc were developed to increase productivity.

Hence, development of education as the production system can be sketched during early decades of twentieth century.  During that time industrial scientific management was applied in education. Such activities were drawn and checked with the method of activity analysis.  An American educationalist Bobbitt in 1924 believes that we need to invent things that are useful to human life and it will be an ultimate objective of education. Activities were the educational objectives and were learned with performance. In order to make business efficient, the concept of activity analysis was applied in the field of education.  Behaviorism is taken as a learning theory than philosophy of education.

The implications of this theory were to:

Define the educational objectives

Define the result especially in terms of behavior to be achieved by the learner

Motivating learner to achieve their goals and objectives

Consider the individual difference as the factor in learning process

On the other hand, critics of behaviorism philosophy see society composed of a gigantic ‘pigeon box’ or as a teaching machine. In addition, they believe society as being made of citizens’ behaviors as controlled by and directed through positive rewards. Most of the professional’s education is developed with the theory of behavioral. But whatever is the criticism about this philosophy, this philosophy can really make a real result. With the accumulated experience an individual can learn more knowledge. In this philosophy education can be achieved through the field visit. Thus, a learner can get real education and can feel it.