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: |
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| 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.
