FACULTY OF EDUCATION
Education 230-3
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Philosophical Issues in Education
Spring Semester, 1980
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Instructor: Dr. C. M. 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.
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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
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Course Requirements
A. Students will be expected to attend twoone-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 he 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:
Text: (1) Hirst, P. H. and Peters, R. S., The Logic of Education,
Routledcie and Kegan Paul, 1970.
(2) Several additional essays (on reserve)
E. Supplementary readings: As recommended by instructor.