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EDUCATION 230-3

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INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION

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(Philosophical Issues in Education)

FALL,1986 ?

Instructor: Dr. Cornel Hamm

Monday & Wednesday

11:30 - 1220 and 1 hour tutorial per week

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Location: TBA.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

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

prospective teachers as veil 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

prerequisites 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 end 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, end 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.

TEXT:

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