To provide students to gain a broader perspective in education with the help of philosophy, to introduce the relation between education and philosophy, to provide students scholars in the field of education and movements in philosophy.
Prerequisite(s)
Corequisite(s)
Special Requisite(s)
Instructor(s)
Assoc. Prof. Gülşah Taşçı
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule
Office Hour(s)
Teaching Methods and Techniques
Lecture, reading, research, following news, discussion, activities in class, presentation and homework, brainstorming, observation, case study
Principle Sources
Sönmez, V., (2013). Eğitim Felsefesi. Ankara: Anı Yayıncılık.
Other Sources
Gutek, G.L. (2006). Eğitime Felsefi ve İdeolojik Yaklaşımlar, (çev.) N. Kale, Ankara: Ütopya Yayınevi.
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
The content of philosophy
2. Week
Relation between education and philosophy, basic problems
3. Week
Platon and the source of idealist education
4. Week
Platon and idealist education
5. Week
Aristoteles and the source of realist education
6. Week
Aristoteles and realist education
7. Week
Book comment
8. Week
Midterm
9. Week
Philosophy of education from Renaissance to Middle Age.
10. Week
Rousseau and Naturalism
11. Week
Locke and liberalist individualist education
12. Week
Experientialist Philosophy
13. Week
Existentialist Philosophy
14. Week
Book Comment
15. Week
Film Comment
16. Week
Revision
17. Week
Final Exam
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
20
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
5
35
Final Exam
1
45
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Possess knowledge about the theories on children’s, adolescent’s and adults’ physical, emotional, cognitive and ethical development characteristics and applies the methods to solve problems that appear within that domain.
PO-2
Design, develop and apply plans and activities on psychological counseling and guidance targeted to rehabilitate teachers, administrators, parents and individuals to accord with their corresponding institutions.
PO-3
Understand the assessment criteria and the methods in the field of Psychological Counseling and Guidance and can apply these purposefully and evaluate their outcomes.
PO-4
Possess the knowledge of professional ethics and the legal obligations while providing guidance service and follows the progress and performs within its limits.
PO-5
Respect all who wants to benefit from the guidance services without discriminating on the grounds of religion, language, race, social class, belief and ideas and tries to support them by paying close attention to the cultural differences.
PO-6
Put their skills on research, inquiry, critical thinking, entrepreneurship and creativity into use for solving problems faced both in professional life and the daily life.
PO-7
Distinguish the pathological cases from the regular cases and correctly identify behavioral and pathological problems and redirects the cases to the related institutions when necessary.
PO-8
Form joint work, run projects and plan activities with colleagues, teachers, administrators, families, social organizations, diverse group of individuals and institutions to help support students’ development and learning.
PO-9
Make use of their technological knowledge and cognitive abilities in following the professional advancements, in literature review, in research and data analysis, in creating plans and various other professional activities.
PO-10
Possess knowledge on learning theories, on the ways in which learning is initiated, on what the effective learning strategies are, and on how these strategies are applied inside and outside the classroom settings and facilitates appropriate environments and organizes programs to this end to support effective individual and group learning.
PO-11
Gain practical skills to perform individual and group psychological counseling to the counselees in the process of identifying individual specific goals, in helping problem solving, in understanding self and developing character.
PO-12
Possess knowledge on special education and identifies individuals in need of special education, and creates individualized educational programs and redirects related cases to the relevant institutions.
PO-13
Help students in their career plans, possesses skills in doing the necessary research for helping students understand the nature of various professions and making the right choices for themselves.
PO-14
Possess the technical information for gathering data about the student, for getting to know the student and in helping the students get to know themselves, and possesses the knowledge of putting their skills on effective communication into use such as listening, posing questions and supporting the case.
PO-15
Take charge in social service efforts with an understanding of the social responsibilities.
PO-16
Present the knowledge and skills acquired within the academic framework of the Psychological Counseling and Guidance program by making links to the interdisciplinary themes and the information on research and inquiry techniques.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
To know the basic concepts in philosophy.
LO-2
To know the ideas of the philosophers in the field of philosophy about education.
LO-3
To realize the opportunities of gaining different perspectives for the notion of "education".
LO-4
To transfer the applications in education to the philosophical movements.
LO-5
To relate the curriculum at schools to the basis of philosophy.
LO-6
To develop critical thinking for the problems in education.
