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FACULTY OF EDUCATION - FALL '78
COURSE OUTLINE
Education 230-3 Philosophical Issues in Education
Instructor - Tasos Kazepides
General Information
This course, open to all undergraduates, is intended to provide students who
have a general interest in educational studies an opportunity to examine
critically a variety of contemporary educational problems from a philosophical
perspective.
The central concern of the course is to elucidate the nature of education
together with an attempt to assess the extent to which the modern school
fulfills its function as an educational institution.
Requirements
1. Two one-hour lecture-discussion sessions and one one-hour tutorial each
week.
2. Papers - A short paper and a longer paper.
3.
Examination - there will be a one hour final examination (Examination
questions will be distributed well in advance).
4.
Grade assessment - 10% short paper
- 10% lecture and tutorial participation
- 40% term paper
- 40% final examination
Required Texts
1. Lloyd, D.I. Philosophy and the Teacher (paperback)
2. Hirst, P.H. and Peters, R.S. The Logic of Education (paperback)
Recommended Text
Soltis, Jonas, An IntroductiOn to the Analysis of Educational Concepts
Course Outline
1. The Nature and Value of Philosophizing in Education
2.
Vagueness and Ambiguity in Educational Discourse
3.
Emotive Uses of Language
4.
The Logic of Educational Slogans
5. The Function of Metaphors in Educational Discourse
6. The Function of Definitions in Educational Discourse
7.
The Criteria of Education - The Achievement Sense
8.
The Criteria of Education - The Educational Processes
9.
The Justification ofEducation
10.
Education and Human Nature
(over)
11.
The Concept of Teaching
12.
Teaching and Personal Relationships
13.
Forms of Miseducation: Indoctrination and Conditioning
14.
The Curriculum
15.
Discipline and Punishment in Education
16.
Freedom and Authority in Education
17.
Creativity