Philosophy of Education - PKIN233NK
Title: Filozofie výchovy
Guaranteed by: Department of Social Sciences Foundation in Kinanthropology (51-300000)
Faculty: Faculty of Physical Education and Sport
Actual: from 2022
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:12/0, MC [HS]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: combined
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Miloš Bednář, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Miloš Bednář, Ph.D.
Interchangeability : PKIN233N
Is incompatible with: PKIN233N
Is interchangeable with: PKIN233N
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Annotation -
The aim of teaching of the subject is to acquire deeper approach to education aiming to disturb some typical pedagogical stereotype and to point out the antinomy of (post)modern education. Basic educational archetypes and their applicability in the present. Dialectics of relation between educans and educandus etc.
Last update: Bednář Miloš, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (01.10.2020)
Aim of the course -

1. Students become familiar with the basic terminology of philosophy of education.

2. Students interpret the dilemmas of contemporary antinomian education.

3. Students study one of the antinomies of contemporary education in depth and write a term paper on it.

4. Students will master the essay form of academic writing.

5. Students will be able to present their own ideas on selected educational topics.

6. Students will be able to compare their own findings with conventional and/or dissenting expert opinions from research and eventually argue with them.

Last update: Bednář Miloš, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (14.11.2023)
Course completion requirements -

Write a written essay of at least 5400 characters (including spaces) and send it to bednar@ftvs.cuni.cz no later than 31.8.2023 (but not before the last lesson!). Approximately 2 pages to be written based on your own reflections and experiences; approximately 1 page to compare your findings with the opinions of experts in the field (including at least one full-text source citation, including a specific page). Content should be selected from one of the nine ANTINOMIES of (not only) postmodern education:

1. Education as HELP versus education as MANIPULATION

2. The educator's POWER versus his POWERLESSNESS

3. Education has no end or the educator is also EDUCATED (educandus)

4. The common claim of culture versus the uniqueness of INDIVIDUALITY

5. Education for LIBERTY versus education for HUMANITY

6. LIMITATIONS and POSSIBILITIES of education itself

(the sphere of formation versus the sphere of freedom)

7. SYSTEMATICITY of education versus the risk of PEDANTERY

8. The school of PLAY versus the school of WORK and STUDY

9. Size of IDEALS versus REALITY (material and/or social)

Last update: Bednář Miloš, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (03.08.2023)
Literature -

BLAKE, NIGEL; SMEYERS, PAUL; SMITH, RICHARD; and STANDISH, PAUL, eds. (2002). Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Education. Boston: Blackwell.

BUNGE, M. (2003). Philosophical Dictionary. New York: Prometheus Books.

Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia (1996). ed. J. J. Chambliss. New York: Garland.

Last update: Bednář Miloš, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (17.08.2023)
Requirements to the exam -

Write an essay.

Last update: Bednář Miloš, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (03.08.2023)
Syllabus -

1. Philosophical approach to the phenomenon of education
2. Basic dimensions of education: cosmic, phylogenetic and ontogenetic aspects
3. Educational archetypes in history (educational age)
4. Platonic paideia
5. Christian educatio
6. Education in the context of Comenius' "all-right" efforts
7. Interpretation of Comenius' pampaedia and panspaedia
8. Locke. Rousseau. Spiritual pedagogy
9. "School" vs. scholasticism
10. The "post-school" age and its problems
11. Alternative approaches to education
12. Universities for the 21st century
13. Antinomies of contemporary education

Last update: Bednář Miloš, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (03.08.2023)
Learning resources -

) full-time teaching:

Classical lecture with PP presentation support.

b) Distance learning:

online lecture on MS Teams platform with support of PP presentation;

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The course (including the slides used) is presented on the Moodle 2 platform (in Czech);

Link: https://dl2.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=3534

Last update: Bednář Miloš, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (17.08.2023)