PSE4801
Assignment 1
(Answer Guide)
2025 - DUE 16 May
2025
QUESTIONS WITH 100%
VERIFIED AND
CERTIFIED ANSWERS.
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PSE4801 Assignment 1 (Answer Guide) 2025 - DUE 16 May 2025
QUESTIONS WITH 100% VERIFIED AND CERTIFIED ANSWERS. WRITTEN IN
REQUIRED FORMAT AND WITHIN GIVEN GUIDELINES. IT IS GOOD TO USE AS A
GUIDE AND FOR REFERENCE, NEVER PLAGARIZE. Thank you and success in
your academics.
PREPARED BY DR. FRED ().
UNISA, 2025.
Contents
1. African Philosophy and Education ...................................................................................................... 2
1.1 Define African philosophy. (5) ....................................................................................................... 2
1.2 Explain why Waghid and Higgs (2017) adopted the view of “mutual attunement”. (5) ......... 2
2. Pragmatism and Education .................................................................................................................. 3
2.1 Show how “experience” in pragmatism has been challenged by pragmatists such as
Rorty. (5) .................................................................................................................................................. 3
2.2 Name a former educator whom you consider to be a pragmatist in his or her teaching
approach and explain why. (5) ............................................................................................................. 3
2.3 Distinguish between “knowledge by acquaintance” and “knowledge about something”. (5)4
3. Rationality and Education ..................................................................................................................... 5
3.1 Why Critical Thinking (Rationality) Should Be Fostered in Learners (5)................................. 5
3.2 Practical Rationality as the “Ability to Stand Back from One’s Initial Judgement”
(MacIntyre, 1999) (5) ............................................................................................................................. 5
3.3 How Educators and Learners Can “Release [Their] Imagination” Through Critical Thinking
(5).............................................................................................................................................................. 5
4. Phenomenology and Education........................................................................................................... 6
4.1 Philosophical Understanding of Existentialism (5) ..................................................................... 6
4.2 Curriculum Interpretation as a Phenomenological Enquiry (5) ................................................. 6
5. Hermeneutics and Education ............................................................................................................... 7
5.1 Why Language is Part of the Dialogical Process of Encountering the World (5) .................. 7
5.2 Hermeneutics as an Educational Experience (5) ....................................................................... 7
6. Systems Theory and Education........................................................................................................... 8
6.1 Philosophical Understanding of Chaos Theory (5) ..................................................................... 8
Assignment 1
(Answer Guide)
2025 - DUE 16 May
2025
QUESTIONS WITH 100%
VERIFIED AND
CERTIFIED ANSWERS.
, 1|Page
PSE4801 Assignment 1 (Answer Guide) 2025 - DUE 16 May 2025
QUESTIONS WITH 100% VERIFIED AND CERTIFIED ANSWERS. WRITTEN IN
REQUIRED FORMAT AND WITHIN GIVEN GUIDELINES. IT IS GOOD TO USE AS A
GUIDE AND FOR REFERENCE, NEVER PLAGARIZE. Thank you and success in
your academics.
PREPARED BY DR. FRED ().
UNISA, 2025.
Contents
1. African Philosophy and Education ...................................................................................................... 2
1.1 Define African philosophy. (5) ....................................................................................................... 2
1.2 Explain why Waghid and Higgs (2017) adopted the view of “mutual attunement”. (5) ......... 2
2. Pragmatism and Education .................................................................................................................. 3
2.1 Show how “experience” in pragmatism has been challenged by pragmatists such as
Rorty. (5) .................................................................................................................................................. 3
2.2 Name a former educator whom you consider to be a pragmatist in his or her teaching
approach and explain why. (5) ............................................................................................................. 3
2.3 Distinguish between “knowledge by acquaintance” and “knowledge about something”. (5)4
3. Rationality and Education ..................................................................................................................... 5
3.1 Why Critical Thinking (Rationality) Should Be Fostered in Learners (5)................................. 5
3.2 Practical Rationality as the “Ability to Stand Back from One’s Initial Judgement”
(MacIntyre, 1999) (5) ............................................................................................................................. 5
3.3 How Educators and Learners Can “Release [Their] Imagination” Through Critical Thinking
(5).............................................................................................................................................................. 5
4. Phenomenology and Education........................................................................................................... 6
4.1 Philosophical Understanding of Existentialism (5) ..................................................................... 6
4.2 Curriculum Interpretation as a Phenomenological Enquiry (5) ................................................. 6
5. Hermeneutics and Education ............................................................................................................... 7
5.1 Why Language is Part of the Dialogical Process of Encountering the World (5) .................. 7
5.2 Hermeneutics as an Educational Experience (5) ....................................................................... 7
6. Systems Theory and Education........................................................................................................... 8
6.1 Philosophical Understanding of Chaos Theory (5) ..................................................................... 8
