Mar 29, 2024  
2020-2021 University Bulletin 
    
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EDUC 310 - History and Philosophy of Education

Credit Hours 3
This course focuses on the historical and philosophical aspects of education as a basis for understanding its place in the social, economic, legal, political, and cultural milieu of America. It provides an in-depth examination of major philosophies of education and their relation to the aims, forms, methods, results of the process of educating or being educated, highlighting relationships between theory and practice. Students examine the place of education in a democracy, identifying philosophical issues embedded in current educational practice and controversies, especially those related to educating for human flourishing, promoting the values of a democratic society, accommodating the interests of the society and particular groups within it, and the realization of social justice.

Listed also as AMST 311 .



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