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    Educ30-3 Philosophical Issues in Education
    FALL, 1982
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    INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Cornel Hamm
    Monday
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    Wednesday 11:30 - 12:30
    plus one hour of tutorial per week
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    LOCATION: on campus
    Course Description
    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
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    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
    I. Meaning and definitions in education.
    2. Slogans and metaphors in education.
    3. Problems of vagueness, ambiguity,and emotive uses of hnguaqe.
    U. The Nature of Education
    1.
    The concept 'education'
    2.
    The concepts 'teaching'
    3.
    Cognitive education and
    4.
    The aims of education.
    5.
    Education, curriculuin,a
    6.
    The means-ends question
    and 'ledrning'.
    education of the emotions.
    Id the nature of knowledge.
    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
    I. Tutorial participation.
    2.
    Examination on required readings.
    3.
    One or more short papers.
    Texts
    P.H. Hirst & R.S. Peters, The Logic of Education, 1KP, 1970.
    D.1. Lloyd (ed.) Philosophy and the Teacher, RKP, 1976.

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