Syllabus
Education is based on attaining concrete aims - its result should be gaining certain skills and knowledge. However, the course of education is at the same time markedly connected with the way through which we perceive the reality of the surrounding world. In the subject of theory of education we shall search the interconnection of education with its three basic theoretical pillars which pedagogy is based on: philosophy, ideology and theory.
Examples of possible themes:
Philosophy and pedagogy (idealism and existentialism)
Ideology and pedagogy (conservatism and liberalism)
Theory and pedagogy (essentialism and progressivism)
Critical theories in pedagogy, etc.
Annotation
Theory of education is one of the fundamental pedagogical disciplines dealing with the systematization and filing of sciences dealing with education, their aims, methods, forms, tools and conditions. The subject matter of the theory of education is, above all, various methods, trends and educational ideologies offering a number of theoretical models and ways of thinking about the educational process.