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DIRECTED
INDEPENDT STUDY COURSE
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Simon Fraser University
Faculty of Education
EDUC 230-3 OUTLINE
PH
ILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN EDUCATION
The central concern of this course is two-fold. First, it
is intended to provide students who have a general interest in
educational
variety of
phi
studies
losophical
with an
issues
opportunity
in contemporary
to examine
education.
critically a
Secondly,
the philosophical
it aims
method
to provide
of enquiry.
students
On
with
completion
an
u
nderstanding
of this
of
course the student should have acquired, to some degree, the
education.
skill of identifying and tackling
phil
osophical questions in
Course Content
The course is organized in five sections, containing a
total of twelve units.
Section A
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The Nature of Philosophical Inquiry
Section B
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Problems in Educational Language
Section C
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Conflicting Educational Perspectives
Section
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The Nature of Education
Section
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Moral Dimensions of Education
Course Requirements
Assignment
i.
5%
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15%
20%
5%
5%
Final (take home) examination
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50%
Required Text
Hurst, P.H.,, and Peters, R.S. The Logic of Education.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1970 (paperback).