| CODE | EDS2206 | ||||||
| TITLE | Teaching Ethics and Aesthetics in PSD Curriculum | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Education Studies | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Tentative Course Outline: The National Curriculum (1999) embraces a holistic philosophy of education, and this philosophy needs to be reflected also in the teaching of PSD. A holistic philosophy of education is one that moves away from the idea that teaching and learning is exclusively about the development of the mind. It recognises that ethics and aesthetics are crucial dimensions of the education and development of the whole person and that the teaching of values is equally important, if not more so, than the teaching of lifeskills. The latter, aesthetics, is particularly important for the education of the emotions and of taste, while the latter, ethics, is about our moral behaviour, about what it is good or bad to do, what is right or wrong. Both belong to the realm of values rather than skills. The object of the unit is the teaching of ethical and aesthetic values; its importance, its problems and difficulties, the controversies involved, teaching approaches, and the creation of a PSD programme that gives due importance to the two areas. Prepared Pack - Best David, (1996) Values in the Arts, in Halstead Mark & Taylor Monica, (Eds.) Values in Education and Education in Values, Falmer - Bishop Nicole, (1996) Trust is not Enough: Classroom Self-disclosure and the Loss of Private Lives, Journal of Philosophy of Education. - Burwood Les, (1996) How Should Schools Respond to the Plurality of Values in a Multi-Cultural Society?, Journal of Philosophy of Education. - Gluck Andrew, (1999) Open-Mindedness versus Holding Firm Beliefs, Journal of Philosophy of Education. - Halstead Mark, (1996) Values and Values Education in Schools, in Halstead Mark & Taylor Monica, (Eds.) Values in Education and Education in Values, Falmer - Lukes Steven (1995) Moral Diversity and Relativism, Journal of Philosophy of Education. - Noddings Nel & Slote Michael (2003) Changing Notions of the Moral and of Moral Education, in Blake Nigel et al. (Eds.) The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Education, Blackwell. - Wain Kenneth (1995) The Value Crisis, Mireva. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Kenneth Wain |
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