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| 0618-2954-01 | Selected Topics in Philosophy of Education | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
Course Objectives: Introducing pedagogical ideas from the history of western philosophy and the conceptual-critical analysis of them.
Course Topics: Philosophy of education; Learning-teaching the moral virtue – reading in Plato's Meno; Democracy and education: selected chapters from the writings of J-J.Rousseau, J.Dewey; A.S.Neill, H.Marcuse and others; Aesthetic education: selected chapters from the writings of I.Kant and F.Schiller; Nietzsche's critique of the bourgeois education – reading in On the Future of Our Educational Institutions and Schopenhauer as an Educator.
Method of Teaching: Lectures, guided reading and classroom-discussion.
Literature: Selected chapters from the above philosophers' writings. The bibliography will be distributed at the beginning of the semester.
Student Assignment: A classroom-exam.
Course Topics: Philosophy of education; Learning-teaching the moral virtue – reading in Plato's Meno; Democracy and education: selected chapters from the writings of J-J.Rousseau, J.Dewey; A.S.Neill, H.Marcuse and others; Aesthetic education: selected chapters from the writings of I.Kant and F.Schiller; Nietzsche's critique of the bourgeois education – reading in On the Future of Our Educational Institutions and Schopenhauer as an Educator.
Method of Teaching: Lectures, guided reading and classroom-discussion.
Literature: Selected chapters from the above philosophers' writings. The bibliography will be distributed at the beginning of the semester.
Student Assignment: A classroom-exam.