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    EDUCATION 230-3
    PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN EDUCATION
    SPRING, 1981
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    INSTRUCTOR: Tasos Kazepides
    Tuesdays, Thursdays 11:30 - 12:30
    (plus 1 hour of tutorial per week)
    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.
    REQUIREMENTS:
    1.
    Two one-hour lecture-discussion sessions and one one-hour tutorial each week.
    2.
    Papers - A short paper due February 17th and a longer paper due March 31st.
    3.
    Examination - there will be a one hour final examination (Examination
    questions will be distributed well in advance.)
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    Grade Assessment - lO% short paper
    10°/ lecture and tutorial participation
    term paper
    40% final examination
    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
    10.
    Education and Human Nature
    11.
    The Concept of Teaching
    12.
    Teaching and Personal Relationships
    13.
    Forms of Miseducation: ?
    Indoctrination and Conditioning
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    The Curriculum
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    Authority, Discipline and Punishment in Education
    16. Creativity in Education
    REQUIRED TEXTS:
    HIRST, P.H. & PETERS, R.S.; THE LOGIC OF EDUCATION (paperback)
    Handouts
    RECOMMENDED TEXT
    SOLTIS, Jonas; AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ANALYSIS OF EDUCATIONAL CONCEPTS

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