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SIMON FRASER UNWERS1TY
EDUCATION 230-3
INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
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(Cat. #63094)
Regular Summer Semester, 1993
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Instructor: Dr. Come! Hamm
(May 3
. -July 30)
Monday, 1:00 - 2:50 p.m.
Location: CC 6125
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.
Mid-term examination on required readings.
3.
One assignment, one 2-page paper, one longer paper
TEXT AND READINGS
C.M. Hamm. Philoso p
hical Issues in Education: An Introduction. Falmer Press (1989).
Selected essays and papers.
