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EDUCATION 230-3
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PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN EDUCATION
FALL, 1980
CAMPUS AND DISTANCE INDEPENDENT STUDY
GENERAL INFORMATION:
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Tasos Kazepides
Campus: Tuesday/Thursday.
9:30 - 10:30
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(plus 1 hour of tutorial)
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.
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 of education
O. Eduat ion and human nature
11. The concept of teaching
12.
Teaching and
personal.
relationshps
;13.. Forms of miseducation:
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Indoctrination and conditioning
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The curriculum
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Discipline and punishment in education
16. Freedom and authority in education
17. Creativity