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Educational Theory and Theory Criticism

REGULAR SUMMER SEMESTER 1984

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INSTRUCTOR: S.C. de Castel]

Office: MPX 8545

Phone: 291-3627

WEDNESDAYS, 5:30 - 920

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Location: on campus

PURPOSE OF THE COURSE:

This is primarily a 'reading and discussion' course. The intention is to

expose students to works which have been of major significance in educational

thought. Class discussion will give each student maximum opportunity to

develop a critical and informed understanding of a range of educational

mode!s. Each model will be considered in terms of its implicit social and

politftal theory, its view of human learning, and its conceptions of human

nature and educational knowledge.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

Students will be expected to read widely and to attend classes consistently.

Students

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be asked to prepare one short discussion paper on a work of

their own choice (wherever possible), and to submit a final essay of 8 - 10

pages in length. There will be no final exam for this course.

REQUIRED READINGS:

Works to be examined are:

Plato: The Republic

Rousseau: Emile

Dewey: The Child & the Curriculum, The School & Society

Skinner: The Technology of Teaching

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Summerhill

Freire: Education for Critical Consciousness

All required readings will be on reserve in multiple copies in the library.

A supplementary reading list will be provided. Each session will involve a

lecture by the instructor, a student discussion paper on the week's topic,

and a seminar discussion of the text read. Some text-substitution will be

possible if desired. Students taking the course for graduate credit will

cover the same material, but in greater depth. The same applies to essays,

for which a higher standard of analysis and criticism is expected. Tutorials

will be arranged for this purpose.

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