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    FACULTY OF EDUCATION
    Educ. 435-4: Educational Theory and Theory Criticism
    Spring, 1973
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    Instructor: Dr. A.C. Kazepides
    The purpose of this course is to develop in prospective teachers the
    capacity to understand and evaluate educational slogans and theories
    (a)
    by examining the nature and dimensions of educational theory, and
    (b)
    by studying and evaluating various proposals for education
    Outline
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    The Nature of Educational Theory
    1)
    The view that Educational Theory is an autonomous discipline.
    2)
    The view that Educational Theory is an architectonic discipline.
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    Dimensions of Educational Theor
    1)
    The empirical dimensions
    2)
    The value dimensions
    3)
    The metaphysical dimensions
    4)
    Philosophy and Educational Theory
    III. Theory and Practice
    1) The Utopian approach:
    2)
    The piecemeal approach:
    Plato's Republic
    Skinner's Walden ir
    Evaluation and reorganization
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    Two Popular Slo2ans
    1)
    Child - centered education
    2)
    Education as socialization
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    Contemporary Educational Theorists
    1)
    John Dew - Paul Goodman
    2)
    Jerome Bruner - James McClellan
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    Bibliography
    1.
    Paul H. Hirst, "Educational Theory" in J.W. Tibble (ed.) The Study
    of Education, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966.
    2.
    D.J. O'Connor, "The Nature of Educational Theory" and reply by
    P.H. Hirst in Proceedings of the Philosophy of Education Society of
    Great Britain, Oxford
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    Blackwell, 172,
    ppV
    97-118.
    3.
    Ernest Hazel, "Philosophy of Science and Educational Theory", Studies
    in Philosophy and Education, Vol. VII, No. 1 (fall) 1969,
    Pp.
    1-27.
    4.
    R.S. Peters, et. al. (eds.), Education and the Development of Reason,
    London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972.
    5.
    Charles D. Hardie, Truth and Fallacy in Educational They, New York:
    Teachers College, Columbia 5ivèit3,192.
    6.
    Jerome Bruner, The Process of Education, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
    University Press, 1960.
    7.
    Jerome S. Bruner, Toward a Theory of Instruction, Cambridge Mass.:
    Harvard University
    press,
    1966.
    8.
    Paul Goodman, Compulsory Mis-education. New York: Vintage Books, 1966.
    9.
    John Dewey, Democracy and Education, New York: The Macmillan Company,
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    10.
    Plato,-.Republic
    11.
    B.F. Skinner, Walden II.
    12.
    B.O. Smith, "The Need for Logic in Methods Courses." Theory into
    Practice, Vol. irt, No. 1 (February) 1964,
    pp.
    5-8.
    13.
    James E. McClellan, Toward an Effective Critique of American Education,
    New York: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1968.

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