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EDUC 230-3

INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION

Office: MPX 8666

Phone: 291-5443?

Web page

Tuesday 12:30-14:20 Shrum Science Centre 9500

plus 1 hour tutorial

PREREQUISITE:

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INTENT OF THE COURSE

Philosophy of Education is currently at an intersection of incredibly rich and diverse visions and

arguments concerning aims, values, methods, and assumptions underlying education. This course

introduces students to a broad range of diverse philosophical viewpoints, for example, the feminist,

ecologist, spiritualist, multiculturalist, critical pedagogist, and so on. Through the lens of these diverse

viewpoints, we will explore and examine the conceptions of education (what should our aims be in

education?), curriculum (What shall students study?), pedagogy (what does it mean to be a teacher and

to teach?), knowledge (what is knowledge and what is it for?), and ethics (what morals and values shall

we teach our young?). It is the intent of this course that our students come away from the course with a

comprehensive picture of the kinds of philosophical debates waged in education around the above

themes. Moreover, we intend that our students become perspectival thinkers who are able to think,

question, and interpret any educational issue from multiple perspectives. And lastly, we promote that

the students emerge from the course with a strong but informed personal voice and stance, capable of

entering into dialogue and debate with confidence.

OBJECTIVES

The coursework aims at cultivating in the students:

• the ability to read texts self-reflectively;

• the ability to employ philosophical vocabulary;

• the ability to examine practices in the light of theories, and vice versa;

• the ability to compose carefully conceptualized and reasoned arguments;

• the ability to engage in productive dialogues in a community of inquiry.

TEXTS

Custom Courseware.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

There will be a variety of innovative assignments, some written, some not written.

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