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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

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