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    EDUCATION 230-3 Philosophical Issues in Education
    SUMMER SEMESTER, 1978
    INSTRUCTOR: Dimitri Kontou, Office #114, Building #1, Faculty of Education
    DATES OF COURSE: May 8 to August 4, 1978
    MEETING TIMES: Monday and Wednesday, LECTURE 9:30 - 10:20 a.m.
    PLACE: LECTURE, AQ 3003
    *Students will also attend a one hour tutorial once a week.
    COURSE GUIDE:
    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.
    Brief Course Outline
    A. The Nature of Philosophical Issues in Education.
    B. Problems in Educational Language.
    C. Conflicting Perspectives on Education
    D. The Nature of Education
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    The criteria of the concept of 'education'
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    The aims of education
    3.
    The justification of education
    4.
    Education and the development of the mind
    S. Education and the nature of knowledge
    6. Teaching and learning
    E. Moral Dimensions of Education
    1.
    Conditioning and indoctrination
    2.
    Authority, freedom, and discipline in education
    3.
    Moral education
    Required Texts
    Hirst, P.H. and Peters, R.S., The Logic of Education (paperback)
    Lloyed, D. I., Philosophy and the Teachefpaperback)
    Other relevant books and articles will be mentioned at the beginning of the
    course, and will be available in the library.
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    Course Requirements
    1.
    Students will be expected to attend two one-hour lecture/discussion
    sessions and one one-hour tutorial each week.
    2.
    Papers - students will be required to write three short papers
    (600 - 800 words). Suggested topics and bibliography will be distributed.
    3.
    Examination - there will be a one-hour final examination. Questions
    will be distributed well in advance.
    4.
    Grade Assessment - 10% lecture and tutorial participation
    - 60% term papers
    - 30% examination

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