SODA010 Social Theories and Theories of Education in the Paradigms of Knowledge 2

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Dušan Klapko, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Dušan Klapko, Ph.D.
Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Ing. et Ing. Jana Šajkovicsová
Supplier department: Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites
The course is designed as a mandatory in the PhD study programme of Social Education. The course is based on the assumption that PhD students understand the difference in the methodological paradigms of research, specifically between the scientific and social science approach. The course builds on the content of teaching in SPA 009.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The course objective is to emphasize the applied importance of the multifactorial view of educational phenomena from the perspective of social pedagogy through an interdisciplinary approach within the discussed theories, concepts, directions, principles and classifications. By analogy, PhD students will anchor the characteristics of the social theories discussed for their dissertation topics.
Learning outcomes
The PhD students will be able to: • apply the discussed social theories to the issues of their own dissertations; • evaluate current social educational topics and social theories in the context of their dissertations; • critically reflect current (global) problems in the field of social education.
Syllabus
  • 1. Theory of Social Learning (Bandura). Goffman´s Theory of Roles and the Presentation of Self. Etnomethodology (Garfinkel). Contact Hypothesis (Allport). 2. Critical theories (Marcuse, Horkheimer). Institutional Power (Fairclough) and Biopower (Foucault). Theory of Social Action and Cultural Capital Theory (Bourdieu). Culture Studies and critical thinking. 3. Critical Theory and Social Media (Allmer). Mass Communication Theory (McQuail). Dimensions of Social Change (Meyrowitz). Digital Dimension (Spitzer). 4. Theory of Modernity (Giddens). Postmodernism (Lyotard, Bauman). Globalization (Beck) and Hyperculture (Lipovetsky, Juvin). 5. Postfeminism and gender, Theory of Performativity and Concept of Body (Butler). Theory of Recognition (Young). Postfeminist philosophy (Nagl-Docekal). 6. Theory of Social Justice (Rawls). Theory of Equal Approach and Social Inequality; Social exclusion and inclusion; Theory of Cultural Reproduction (Katrnak, Bernstein). Discoursive Democracy (Habermas). 7. Theory of Social Systems (Luhmann). Theory of Communicative Action (Habermas). 8. The application level of contextualizing social theories to the field of social education research.
Literature
    required literature
  • LUHMANN, Niklas. Theory of society. Translated by Rhodes Barrett. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2013, viii, 453. ISBN 9780804771603. info
  • FAIRCLOUGH, Norman. Analysing discourse : textual analysis for social research. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2003, vi, 270. ISBN 0415258936. info
    recommended literature
  • FLORIDI, Luciano. The 4th revolution : how the infosphere is reshaping human reality. First edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, xvi, 248. ISBN 9780198743934. info
  • Discourse and contemporary social change. Edited by Norman Fairclough - Guiseppina Cortese - Patrizia Ardizzone. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007, 555 p. ISBN 9783035103519. info
  • Feminist critical discourse analysis : gender, power, and ideology in discourse. Edited by Michelle M. Lazar. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, xi, 260. ISBN 9781403914866. URL info
  • TANNEN, Deborah. Gender and discourse. 1st pub. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, x, 229. ISBN 0195101243. info
  • BANDURA, Albert. Social foundations of thought and action : a social cognitive theory. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1986, xiii, 617. ISBN 013815614X. info
  • GOFFMAN, Erving. Strategic interaction. 1st print. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1970, x, 145. info
  • GARFINKEL, Harold. Studies in ethnomethodology. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1967, xvi, 288 s. info
Teaching methods
Lecture, discussion based on reading, self-study, workshop, feedback evaluation.
Assessment methods
Examination: assessment of a written version of the theoretical interpretation of the dissertation and an oral discussion of applied social theories.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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