SOk140 Philosophy of Education

Faculty of Education
Spring 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/1.2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught online.
Teacher(s)
Mgr. František Trapl, Ph.D. (lecturer)
RNDr. Michal Černý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. František Trapl, Ph.D.
Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Kateřina Štěpařová
Supplier department: Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Timetable
Fri 5. 3. 9:00–12:50 učebna 41, Fri 26. 3. 14:00–16:50 učebna 41, Fri 9. 4. 9:00–12:50 učebna 41, Fri 14. 5. 17:00–19:50 učebna 41
Prerequisites
High school knowledge of philosophy and pedagogy.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 100 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/100, only registered: 0/100, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/100
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to enable students to understand the relationship between ethics and the philosophy of education.
Learning outcomes
After finishing the course students will be able:
• to understand ethics as a search for "eternal" principles in varying contexts
• to understand the evolution of pedagogy from its beginnings in modern philosophical concepts up to current trends in pedagogy
• to differentiate the conditions of modern education from the education in the global age
• to understand the changes of pedagogy as science from the 19th century to the present
• to use previous knowledge to analyse the current state of pedagogy
Syllabus
  • 1) Ethics and ethical aspects of education
  • 2) Pedagogical aspects of philosophical systems and their dissolution at the time of modern school systems
  • 3) Modern situation: Separation of schooling from education and reconnexion in the ideology of modern school theories
  • 4) Nationalism and philosophy of education, Durkheim and Dewey
  • 5) Transnational situations and their consequences on the forms of education: false conflict of modernism and postmodernism
  • 6) Ghost hour: Liessman versus real exceeding of early modernism in the philosophy of education
  • 7) Ethical aspects of global education and late modernism
Literature
    required literature
  • Dewey, J. (1932). Demokracie a výchova. Praha: Jan Laichter.
  • Kasper, T., & Kasperová, D. (2008). Dějiny pedagogiky. Praha: Grada.
    recommended literature
  • Ainsworth, J. (2013). Sociology of Education: An A-to-Z Guide. London, New York: Sage.
  • Eastman, G. (1967). The Ideologiying of Theories: John Dewey's Educational Theory, A Case in Point. Educational Theory, 17 (2), 103–119.
  • Liessmann, K. P. (2015). Hodina duchů: O praxi nevzdělanosti. Praha: Academia.
    not specified
  • Čornejová, I., Kasper, T., Kasperová, D., Kourová, P., Kratochvíl, P., Lenderová, M., Novotný, M., Pokorný, J., Svatoš, M., Svobodný, P., Šimek, J., & Váňová, R. (2020). Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české. Paseka.
  • ŠÍP, Radim. Proč školství a jeho aktéři selhávají. Kognitivní krajiny a nacionalismus (Why education and its actors fail. Cognitive landscapes and nationalism). 1. dotisk 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2020, 471 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-9377-5. info
  • PROKOP, Daniel. Slepé skvrny : o chudobě, vzdělávání, populismu a dalších výzvách české společnosti. Druhé, rozšířené vydán. Brno: Host, 2020, 278 stran. ISBN 9788027503087. info
  • FEŘTEK, Tomáš. Co je nového ve vzdělávání. 2. vydání. Praha: Nová beseda, 2019, 111 stran. ISBN 9788090749016. info
Teaching methods
lectures, text analysis, discussions
Assessment methods
group work, test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 14 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2021, recent)
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