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INTRODUCTION TO PBILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
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(D1.00)
Fall Semester, 1992 ?
Instructor: Dr. Cornel Hamm
(September 8— December 4)
Monday & Wednesday
1:30 - 2:20 p.m. & Tutorials
Location: MPX 7618
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course open to all undergraduates, is intended to provide prospective teachers as well
as others interested in education an opportunity to examine a variety of educational issues
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
E. Postmodernism and Education
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
1. Tutorial participation
2. Examination on required readings - mid-term and final
3. One assignment, one 2-page paper, one longer paper
TEXT AND READINGS
C.M. Hamm. Philosoohical Issues in Education: An Introduction. Falmer Press (1989).
Selected essays and papers.
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Education 230 - Introduction to Philosophy of Education
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Library Reserve Listing
A. Articles (2 copies each - 4 hour loan)
1.
Dearden, R.F., "'Needs' in Education" in British Journal of Educational
Studies. XIV, #3 (Nov., 1966),
pp.
5-17.
2.
Hamm, C.M., 'The Content of Moral Education, or In Defense of the 'Bag
of Virtues", in School Review. Vol 88, #2,1977,
pp.
218-228.
3.
Hirst, P.H., "The Logic of the Curriculum' in Journal of Curriculum
Studies, 1969.
4.
Kazepides, A.C. "Indoctrination, Doctrines and the Foundations of
Rationality," S.F.U.
5.
Peters, R.S. "The Nature of Authority" in Peters, R.S., Authority
Responsibility and Education, London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd.,
1966, Ch. 1.
6.
Scheffler, I. "Definitions in Education" in The Language of Education,
Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, 1960, Ch. II.
7.
Scheffler, I. "Educational Metaphors" in The Language of Education,
Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, 1960, Ch. Ill.
B. Books (on 24 hr. loan)
1.
Barrow, Robin. The Philosophy of Schooling, Wheatsheaf Books Ltd.,
1981.
2.
Berlin, I. Four Essays on Liberty, Oxford University Press, London, 1969.
3.
Chambers, John I. The Achievement of Education Harper & Row, 1983.
4.
Cochrane, D., Hamm, C.M., Kazepides, A.C. (eds.), The Domain of Moral
Education, Paulist Press and OISE, 1979.
5.
Dearden, R.F. Philosophy of Primary Education, An Introduction.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1968.
6.
Dearden, R.F., et al. Education and the Development of Reason, London:
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972.
7.
Macmillan, C.R.J., and Nelson, T.W. (eds.) Concepts of Teaching.
Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1969.
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Lloyd, D.I. (ed.) Philosophy and the Teacher, RKP, 1976.
9.
Peters, R.S. Authority Responsibility and Education. London: George
Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1966.
10.
Peters, R.S. (ed.), The
Philosophy of
Education London, Routledge and
Kegan Paul, 1973.
11. Peters, R.S., The Concept
of
Education. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
12.
Peters, RS., Ethics and Education. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd.,
1966.
13. Scheffler, I. The
Conditions
of Knowledge. Chicago: Scott, Foresman &
Co., 1965.
14.
Scheffler, I. The Language of Education. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C.
Thomas, Publisher, 1960.
15.
Snook, I. Concepts of Indoctrination. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,
1970.
