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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

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