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HU Credits:
3
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Education
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Tal Gilead
Coordinator Office Hours:
By appointment
Teaching Staff:
Mr. or aroch,
Ms. liat areel,
Prof Tal Gilead
Course/Module description:
The course introduces the students to basic concepts and theories of educational philosophy. It provides the studnets with analytic tools and basic knowledge of key normatives theories in education. It deal with subjects such human nature, the educated person, indoctrination and with the educational writtings of thinkers such as Palto, Rousseau, Dewey, Neill, Freire and others
Course/Module aims:
The introduce to the students the realm of educational philosophy. To acquaint them with the major thinkers in the field. To lay the foundations for developing a philosophical way of thinking.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
to understand the philosophical prespective, to have basic knowledge of the theories of key educational thinkiers, to critically examine educational ideals, to start and develop one's own beleifs regarding education
Attendance requirements(%):
al least 80%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lectures plus lessons in smaller groups in which text are read together and discussed.
Course/Module Content:
1) Introduction
A) What is philosophy? What is philosophy of education?
2. Conceptual models
Lamm and Adar
3) The makers of a tradition
a) Plato
b) Rousseau
c) Dewey
4)Radical and critical approaches
Freire
5) Contemporary theories
Postmodernism
White
Required Reading:
1) Adar - What is Education (In hebrew).
2) Plato, Republic, Para 512-521.
3 J. J. Rousseau, Emile, selected pages.
4) Dewey J, Democracy and Education - Chapter 4.
5) A. S. Neill, Summerhill, selected pages.
6) Shor, I and Freire, P. - Pedagogy of libaration - 3 first chapters.
7) Z. Adar, What is Education, Chapter 2-5 (in Hebrew).
8) Z. Lam - In the turmoil of ideologies - In Hebrew.
9) A Nation at Risk
10) J. White. Education and the End of Work.
11) W. Kymlica - Dilemas of citizenship education at pluralist democracies.
Additional Reading Material:
1) Scolnicov - Plato: Education as the development of reason (in Hebrew).
2 Hoffman, A. - Nature, Love and Politics in the educational thought of Rousseau (In Hebrew).
3) A Klienberg, John Dewey: a Thinker and Educator, (in Hebrew).
4) Gover, N. - An Introduction to Pedagogy of Liberation (in Hebrew).
5) S. Bowles and H. Gintis (1976), Schooling in Capitalist America (New York: Basic Books), pp. 3-17
Grading Scheme :
Written / Oral / Practical Exam / Home Exam 60 %
Submission assignments during the semester: Exercises / Essays / Audits / Reports / Forum / Simulation / others 40 %
Additional information:
None
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