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EDU 1103: Philosophy of Education

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Mode of Delivery:

  • Online
  • Blended mode: mixed online and face-to -face
  • Face-to-Face


1. Rationale

The study of Philosophy of Education will provide you with:

  • An understanding of the purpose of education process for humanity.
  • Knowledge of the basis for selection of educational goals and ability to adjudicate conflicts over values in education. After a successful study of this module, you should be able to:
  • Identify the purpose of education in general and teaching in particular.
  • Influence educational policy in your country.
  • Evaluate current educational theories and practice against a background of logical alternatives.
  • Acquire principles for critical analysis of educational assumptions.
  • Discover alternative dimensions of meaning that conventional wisdom have missed in guiding theory and practice in education.


2. Prerequisite or knowledge

Philosophizing involves independent thought process and requires skills in coherent reasoning. It is expected that you will have these competencies after having been in a university‘s undergraduate academic programme for at least one academic year. This module, therefore, is appropriate for you during or after second year of undergraduate study.

3. General objectives

As an educator, have you ever realized that your beliefs in life and the role of education in shaping them may need to be identified, examined, justified, defended and perhaps modified to establish their coherence with other competing beliefs? An opportunity to do so arises as you choose to study this module. The development of such a disposition would generate more questions than answers. As you grapple with attempts to raise and answer educational
philosophical questions in this module, you will be able to:

 

i.    Establish a link between philosophical deliberation and educational theory and practice.
ii.    Expose and analyze assumptions underlying theory and practice of education.
iii.    Develop

  • Problem-solving and critical thinking skills
  • An ability to think independently
  • An ability to analyze current educational issues, practice and ideology
  • An understanding of philosophical basis for the practice of education


iv.    Foster
v.    Inquire
vi.    Reflect


4. Time

This module is divided into five units covered in four activities. You will need to spend 120 hours to cover the module adequately. The distribution of the units and the corresponding time for each are listed as follows:

Unit 1: 20 hrs
Unit 2: 30 hrs
Unit 3: 10 hrs
Unit 4: 10 hrs
Unit 5: 50 hrs

5. Materials

This module will require the following web-based open source materials from the following sites among others:
www.wikipedia.org
www.wikibooks.org