EDUS256 EDUATIONAL PHILOSOPHY
| Course Code: | 3680256 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: | 4.0 |
| Department: | Educational Sciences |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
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| Offered Semester: | Fall 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, existentialisteducation, 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.