EDUC.00-3 PHILSOPHICAL ISSUES IN ED•TION

Fall, 1981

Lecture: Mon.. and Wed. 12:30 - 1:30

Tutorials: Mon. 1:30 - 2:30

OR Mon. 2:30 - 3:30

OR Wed. 1:30 - 2:30

Course Description

INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Cornel Hamm

LOCATION: on campus

This course is an introduction to philosophy of education. As such

it is intended to provide prospective teachers as well as others interested

in education an opportunity to examine a variety of educational problems

from a philosophical perspective. The central concern of the course is to

elucidate the nature of education as a phenomenon distinguishable from such

activleties ?

as training, schooling, and socialization. It should enable

one to think more clearly and critically about a host of problems, issues,

and concepts in education. There are no pre-requisites for the course. A

brief course outline follows:

A. The Nature of Philosophical Issues in Education

1.

What are philosophical problems in education?

2.

What role does philosophy have in solving educational problems?

B. The Language of Education

1.

Meaning and definitions in education.

2.

Slogans and metaphors in education.

3.

Problems of vagueness, ambiguity,and emotive uses of language.

C. The Nature of Education

1.

The concept 'education'.

2.

The concepts 'teaching' and 'learning'.

3.

Cognitive education and education of the emotions.

4. The aims of education.

5.

Education, curriculum,and the nature of knowledge.

6.

The means-ends question in education.

D. Moral Dimensions of Education

1.

Freedom and authority in education.

2.

Discipline and punishment in education.

3. Conditioning and indoctrination.

4.

The justification of content in education.

5. Values and moral education.

Course Requirements

1. Tutorial participation.

2.

Examination on required readings.

3. One or more short papers.

Texts

P.H. Hirst & R.S. Peters, The Logic of Education, RKP, 1970.

D.I. Lloyd (ed.) Philosophy and the Teacher, RKP, 1976.