Information Package / Course Catalogue
Philosophy of Education
Course Code: BESE116
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 3
Objectives of the Course

Basic topics and problem areas of philosophy; existence, knowledge, moral/value philosophy and education; basic philosophical movements (idealism, realism, naturalism, empiricism, rationalism, pragmatism, existentialism, analytical philosophy) and education; philosophy of education and educational movements: Perennialism, essentialism, progressivism, existential education, critical/radical education; Educational views of some philosophers in the Islamic world and the West (Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, J. Dewey, Avicenna, Farabi, J. J. Rousseau, etc.); human nature, individual differences and education; education in terms of some political and economic ideologies; Movements of thought and education that were effective in the modernization process in Turkey; Philosophical foundations of the Turkish education system.

Course Content

To teach the basic concepts of philosophy, to explain the relationship between philosophy and science, to introduce the basic areas of philosophy, to explain the basic issues of philosophy, to explain the theories of philosophy of education

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