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EDUCATION 433-4 ?
PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN THE CURRICULUM
Fall Semester, 1987
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Instructor:
Dr. T. Kazepides
Office
MPX
8659
Tuesdays, 4:30 - 8:20 ?
Phone:
291-3641
Location:
MPX9511/12
PREREQUISITES
60 hours of credit. Educ. 230 or equivalent or permission of instructor.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course deals with the most fundamental questions that lie behind any attempt to
plan, evaluate or change an education curriculum. The course should be valuable to
educators and prospective teachers as well as to all those persons who have a serious
interest in the study of education.
COURSE OUTLINE
1.
The role of Philosophy in curriculum planning. (Hirst: I)
2.
Educational aims and curriculum objectives. (Hirst: 2, Kazepides, Lloyd: 4)
3.
Needs, wants, interests and the curriculum. (Dearden, Hirst: 2)
4.
Education as the development of mind. (Hirst: "The Logic of the Curriculum"
5.
Educational and miseducational activities. (Lloyd: 2, Kazepides-Hudson)
6.
Forms of knowledge and the curriculum. (Lloyd:
5-6,
Hirst: 3+6)
7.
Relativism, Rationality and the Sociology of knowledge. (White-Young)
8.
Language, Thought and Understanding. (Hirst:
5)
9.
Interdisciplinary and Integrated Curriculum. (Lloyd: 8, Hirst: 9)
10.
Teaching and Learning. (Hirst: 7, Kazepides: "Wittgenstein and .....")
11.
Creativity. (Lloyd: 9)
12.
Freedom and Authority in Education. (Lloyd: 10-11)
1.
A short paper of 3-5 pages.
2.
A short oral presentation in class.
3.
A follow-up final paper of about 15 typewritten double-spaced pages on a topic
approved by the instructor. The paper is due one week before the last day of
classes.
REOUIRED TEXTS
1.
Hirst, Paul H, Knowledge and the Curriculum. London: Routledge and Kegan
Paul, 1974.
2.
D. I. Lloyd (ed.),_Philosophy and the Teacher. London: R.K. P., 1976.
N.B. This course is also offered by Graduate Programs, Educ. 836-5 Advanced Seminar
in Epistemology and Education.
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CENTRE FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION
Distance Education Course
Simon Fraser University
EDUCATION 433-4 ?
PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN CURRICULUM
Examines fundamental philosophical issues Involved in designing, evaluating, or
changing educational curricula. Such issues as the nature and justification of
educational curriculum, the components of a rational curriculum, the nature of
knowledge and its differentiation, curriculum integration and the education of the
emotions. Also deals with such current isssues as the place of "behavioral
objectives" in education, the "hidden curriculum" and the sociology of knowledge.
Unit Topics:
Unit 1
Curriculum
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Moral Education
Unit
2
Learning How to Learn
Unit 8
Knowledge
Unit 3
Objectives
Unit 9
Cricital Thinking
Unit 4
Needs
Unit
10
Empirical Research
Unit 5
Emotions
Unit
11
Developmental Theory
Unit 6
Creativity
Unit
12
Evaluation
PREREQUISITE: ?
60
hours of credit. Educ.
230
or equivalent or permission of
instructor.
REQUIRED TEXTS:
Barrow, R. The Philoso ph y
of Schooling. 1981.
Barrow, R. Givin g
Teaching Back to Teachers. 1984.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
There will be two assignments (worth 20% each) and two essays (worth 30% each).
The answers to the written assignments should be about five typed pages while the
essays should be between five and ten pages typed.
COURSE SUPERVISOR RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES WITHOUT
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