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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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EDUCATION 230-3
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INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
Fall Semester, 1989
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Instructor:
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Dr. Cornel Hamm
Tuesday & Thursday
11:30- 12:20 p.m.
Location: AQ3154
Course Desc rIDt Ion
This course is an introduction feducation. 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
5.
Education, curriculum, and the nature of knowledge
6.
The means-ends
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
1.
Tutorial participation
2.
Examination on required readings
3.
One or more short papers
Texts
P.H. Hirst & R.S. Peters. (1970). The Logic of Education. RKP.
C.M. Hamm. Philosophical Issues in Education: An Introduction. (Copies available from
instructor.)
