Which combination gives defensible educational reasons for including philosophy in teacher education? (a) A discipline’s age alone establishes its value for every professional curriculum. (b) Philosophy helps examine educational concepts and their relationships holistically. (c) Philosophical ideas about aims and values inform educational practice. (d) Studying philosophy automatically guarantees a morally superior personality. (e) Philosophical analysis encourages reasoned evaluation of educational concepts.
(b), (c) and (e)
Statements b, c and e connect philosophy with conceptual clarity, educational purposes and reasoned judgment. Antiquity alone is insufficient justification, and studying a subject does not automatically guarantee personal virtue.