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EDUCATION 437-4
ETHICS AND EDUCATION
SUMMER SESSION 1980
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INSTRUCTOR: Richard Barrett
Tuesday and Friday, 8:30 - 12:30
Philosophical study of the ethical aspects of education and schooling.
In particular:
1.
Discussion of the ethical and social foundations of public schooling
and its goals.
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Elucidation of central concepts - such as "interests", "self-determination"
and "equality".
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Consideration of what "moral education" is or could be.
4.
Assessment of the uses and abuses of the notion of freedom as found
in discourse on educational and related matters.
TEXTS:
R.S. PETERS; ETHICS AND EDUCATION; London: Allen & Unwin
Frithjof BERGMANN; ON BEING FREE; Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame
Press
ON RESERVE:
D. Purpel and K. Ryan, eds.; MORAL EDUCATION: IT COMES WITH THE TERRITORY;
Berkeley: McCutchen
D.B. Cochrane, C.M. Hamm and A.C. Kazepides, eds., THE DOMAIN OF MORAL
EDUCATION; Toronto: O.I.S.E.
R.P. Wolff, THE IDEAL OF THE UNIVERSITY, Boston: Beacon Press