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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSiTY

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EDUCATION

836-5?

ADVANCED SEMINAR

IN EPISTEMOLOGY AND EDUCATION

Spring Semester, 1992

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Instructor: ?

Dr. Tasos Kazepides

Mondays, 4:30 - 9:20

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Office: ?

MPX 8659

Location: MPX 7504

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Phone: ?

291-3641

COURSE PURPOSE

This course deals with the most fundamental questions that lie behind any attempt to plan, evaluate or

change an educational 'cuniculuin. 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.

1.

The nature of philosophical analysis and its role in thinking about the curriculum.

2.

Educational, Non-educational, pre-educational and miseducational activities (Kazepides

"Educating, Socializing. . .

3.

Conflicting perspectives on curriculum objectives (survival, citizenship, the needs of students, the

development of mind) Dearden "Needs in Education."

4.

The logic of aims, goals and objectives (Hirst ch. 1-2, Kazepides "On Educational Aims . .

5.

The justification of educational activities (Peters, "The Justification of Education", Hirst, ch. 4

"Curriculum").

6.

What is meant by 'multidisciplinaiy' and 'integrated' curricula (Hirst, ch. 9).

7.

The range of educational terms (learning and teaching) and cognitive terms (knowledge and belief)

(I-first, ch. 5 "Teaching", Kazepides "Wittgenstein and. . .

8.

Claims about the relativity of knowledge and standards of rationality.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

1.

A short oral presentation in class.

2.

A follow-up final paper of about 15 typewritten double-spaced pages on a topic approved by the

instructor. The paper is due no later than one week before the last day of classes.

REQUIRED TEXTS

1.

Paul Hirst, Knowledge and the Curriculum, London: Routledge Kegan Paul, 1974.

2.

Essays

1991-2

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Centre for Distance Edon

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Faculty of Education

Simon Fraser University

TC 3100 ?

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 issues as the place of "behavioral objectives"

in education, the "hidden curriculum" and the sociology of knowledge.

Unit Topics:

Unit 1

Curriculum

Unit 7

Moral Education

Unit 2

Learning How to Learn

Unit 8

Knowledge

Unit 3

Objectives

Unit 9

Critical Thinking

Unit 4

Needs

Unit 10

Empirical Research

Unit 5

Emotions

Unit 11

Developmental Theory

Unit 6

Creativity

Unit 12

Evaluation

PREREQUISITE: ?

60 credit hours .EDUC

220 or equivalent ?

or permission of

instructor.

REQUIRED TEXT:

Barrow, R.

The Philosophy of Schooling.

1981.

Barrow, R.

Understanding Skills.

1990.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

Five assignments are to be submitted. The first assignment (due week 3) is required,

but will be ungraded. Of the remaining 4 assignments there will be two written

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 INSTRUCTOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES WITHOUT NOTICE.

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Centre for Distance EduSn

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Faculty of Education

Simon Fraser University

MPX 8548 ?

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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 issues as the place of "behavioral objectives"

in education, the "hidden curriculum" and the sociology of knowledge.

Unit Topics:

Unit 1

Curriculum

Unit 7

Moral Education

Unit 2

Learning How to Learn

Unit 8

Knowledge

Unit 3

Objectives

Unit 9

Critical Thinking

Unit 4

Needs

Unit 10

Empirical Research

Unit 5

Emotions

Unit 11

Developmental Theory

Unit 6

Creativity

Unit 12

Evaluation

PREREQUISITE: ?

60 credit hours .EDUC

220 or equivalent

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or permission of

instructor.

REQUIRED TEXT:

Barrow, R.

The Philosophy of Schooling.

1981.

Barrow, R.

Giving 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.

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