Educai23O-3 INTRODUCTION TO PHIL(JY OF EDUCATION

(Philosophical Issues In Education)

FALL 1985

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INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Cornel Hamm

Tuesdays and Thursdays,

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LOCATION: ?

AQ 3153

10:30 - 11:20 and 1 hour tutorial per week

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 activities

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.

S. 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.

S. Values and moral education.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

1.

Tutorial participation.

2.

Examination on required readings.

3.

One or more short papers.

TEXT:

Hirst, P.H.

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Peters, R.S. The Logic of Education. PKP, 1970