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FACULTY OF EDUCATION
Education 230-3 Philosophical Issues in Education
Spring Semester 1979
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Instructor: Dr C. N. Hamm
COURSE GUIDE
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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.
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Brief Course Outline
A. The Nature of Philosophical Issues in Education
B. Conflicting Perspectives on Education
C. The Nature of Education
1.
The aims of Education
2.
The means-ends model in Education
3.
The concept 'Education'
4.
Education and the development of mind
5.
Education and the nature of knowledge
D. Moral Dimensions of Education
1.
The nature of punishment and authority
2.
Freedom and respect for persons
3.
Conditioning and indoctrination
4.
Moral education
III. Course Requirements
A. Students will be expected to attend two one-hour lecture-discussion
sessions and one one-hour tutorial each week.
B. Papers
1.
A short paper of about 500 words will be due in January
2.
A longer paper of about 2000 words will be due in March.
(Suggested essay topics and supplementary bibliography will
be distributed on assignment guide sheets.)
C. Examinations - There will be a 1 hour mid-term examination in February
and a 1 hour final examination in April based on the lectures and
the required readings.
D.
Required readings:
Texts: ?
Hirst, P. H. and Peters, R. S., The Logic of Education,
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970.
Parts of two supplementary texts. ?
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Articlds: As recommended as the course progresses.
