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    Educ. 461-4 Trends and Developments in Educational Practice
    SUBTITLE: THE PLACE OF THE ARTS IN EDUCATION
    SUMMER SESSION 1982
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    INSTRUCTOR: Robin Barrow
    Wednesday E Thursday 8:30 - 12:20
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    LOCATION: on campus
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    The course will consider the place of the Arts in general within the school
    curriculum. We will consider what role the Arts play in a person's education,
    and will consider both the Fine Arts and Aesthetic education and also the
    role of the Arts in general vis--vis the Sciences. We will examine the topics
    listed below with an emphasis on precision, conceptual clarity, and
    logical coherence.
    TOPICS:
    What are schools for? Knowledge and values: some problems. Can value
    judgements in the arts be objective? Some arguments for teaching the arts.
    What is the relationship between art and morality? The Fine Arts as a form
    of knowledge. What kind of meaning and truth may works of art convey?
    What is art? What are aesthetic experiences, pornography, and obscenity?
    What is culture? Measuring success in education in the arts.
    READINGS:
    For an ideal set of readings to support each seminar see the reading list
    and set of topics attached..
    P. Hirst. Knowledge and the Curriculum. Routledge and
    Kegan Paul
    R. Wollheim. Art and its Objects. Penguin.
    R. Barrow. Educational and Curriculum Theory (to
    be handed out in class, or may be picked up
    from Undergraduate Programs Office)
    R. Barrow. Commonsense and the Curriculum. Allen
    and Unwin.
    NOTE: This course is also open to Graduate students. Graduate students
    should enrol in Education 809.
    (see reverse)
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    BOOKS ON RESERVE IN THE LIBRARY:
    R. Barrow. Plato and Education.
    R. Barrow. The Philosophy of Schooling. Wheatsheaf, Harvester
    Press.
    R. Barrow. Radical Education. Martin Robertson.
    R. Barrow. Moral Philosophy for Education. Allen and linwin.
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    Ilich. Deschooling Society. Penguin.
    M. Warnock. Schools of Thought. Faber.
    M.R.F. Young. Knowledge and Control. Collier-Macmillan.
    J.
    Hospers. Meaning and Truth in the Arts. University of North
    Carolina Press.
    J. Hospers. Introductory Readings in Aesthetics. Free Press.
    T.S. Eliot. Notes Towards the Definition of Culture. Faber.
    J.H. Plumb. Crisis in the Humanities. Penguin.

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