EDUS255 EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY 
    
       | Course Code: | 3680255 | 
    
       | METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 2(2-0) | 
    
       | ECTS Credit: | 3.0 | 
    
       | Department: | Educational Sciences | 
    
       | Language of Instruction: | English | 
    
       | Level of Study: | Undergraduate | 
    
       | Course Coordinator: |  | 
    
       | Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. | 
Course Content
The fundamental issues and problem areas of philosophy; ontology. epistemology. axiology and education; the fundamental philosophical movements (idealism. realism. naturalism. empiricism. rationalism. pragmatism. existentialism. analytical philosophy) and education; educational philosophy and educational movements: Perennialism. essentialism. progressivism. existentialist education. critical/radical education; educational viewpoints of certain philosophers in Islamic world and in the West (Plato. Aristoteles. Socrates. J. Dewey. Ibn-I Sina. Farabi. J. J. Rousseau. and so on); human nature. individual differences and education; education in terms of certain political and economic ideologies; the effective movements of thought during the modernization process in Turkey and education; the philosophical foundations of Turkish education system.