EDUC Outline

FALL SEMESTER 2008

EDUC 230-3

DR. ROBIN BARROW?

Office: EDB

9507?

Phone: 778-782-5890

email: robin_barrow@sfu.ca

Wednesday 2:30-4:20 pm

plus 1 hour tutorial

PREREQUISITE:

None.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

This course, open to all undergraduates, is intended to provide students who have a general interest in

educational studies an opportunity to critically examine a variety of educational issues from the

perspective of analytic philosophy. A central concern of the course is to elucidate the nature of education

as distinct from related concepts such as training and socialisation, and to argue that education is a

uniquely human phenomenon. Other concepts considered include mind, knowledge and emotion. As its

title indicates, the course is equally concerned with introducing the business of philosophical analysis to

students. There are no prerequisites for the course.

REQUIREMENTS:

1.

One two-hour lecture/question period and one one-hour tutorial each week

2.

Attendance/participation (10%)

3.

One short paper. 4th Wk (20%)

One term paper. 8th Wk (40%)

One in-class test 12th Wk (30%)

REQUIRED TEXT:

Robin Barrow and Ronald Woods (2006), An Introduction to Philosophy of Education, Fourth Edition,

Routledge, Paperback. ISBN 0415381266.

COURSE OUTLINE:

Topics include: What is it to be Human? The Concept of Education. The Nature of Knowledge.

Indoctrination. Rationality and Autonomy. The Postmodern Challenge. Needs, Wants and Interests.

Creativity. Culture. Research into teaching.

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