Explain the concept of Metaphysics and its relation with education.

The metaphysics of education can be understood from the various perspectives of epistemology — a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of knowledge.

This includes the way knowledge is acquired, as well as the thoroughness and limitations of knowledge. The study of epistemology can be applied to the metaphysics of educational instruction.

An externalist approach to education focuses on presenting students with information. The instructor emphasizes reading material, lectures, and multisensory explanations such as infographics and experimental analysis.

In contrast, an internalist approach to education focuses on a more subjective development of knowledge.

A internalist instructor emphasizes class discussion, group collaboration, and student autonomy in learning.

The externalist approach therefore is based on the external presentation of learning material, while the internalist approach is based on the internal comprehension of the student.

Of course, techniques from both methods can be used to optimize educational effectiveness. Within epistemology are numerous schools of thought that appeal to both the internalist and externalist approaches to knowledge.

Empiricism is the theory that knowledge is acquired through sensory experience. In contrast, idealism argues that knowledge is formed internally by innate properties of the human mind. 

Rationalism is a third epistemological school of thought that combines properties from both the empiricist and idealist schools and adds the concept of abstraction as a third property of knowledge.

Finally, constructivism argues that knowledge is constructed through social and traditional tendencies, and thus is relative.

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