Courses

Course title:Philosophy of education
Faculty:Faculty of Education
Department:Department of Education and Adult Education
Course code:KPD / E-PHA
Credits:5
Semester:Winter
Level of study:Mgr.
Format of study:Practical classes 1 [Hours/Week]
Name of the lecturer:doc. PaedDr. Miriam Prokešová, Ph.D. (G)
Language:English
ISCED F broad:Arts and humanities
Annotation:Status of the course in the study program: The aim of the subject is to acquaint students with basic questions not only from the field of philosophy of education (education as a care of soul), but also with the philosophical view of questions concerning a substance and sense of world, being, life and comprehension of a man position in the framework of historical and contemporary context of society and its era. The main topics are the following: philosophy of education and its concept definition, conception of a man from the point of view of paradigms (Mythos, Logos, Theos, Mechanos), contemporary world's conception (modern and postmodern), conception of a child from the philosophical point of view and questions of education for the 21st century, position of a man in the framework of nature, space and society.