Annotation
This course serves as an introduction to selected important figures in the history of the philosophy of education, and includes an analysis of their teaching and the important representatives of the pedagogical currents of the 19th and 20th centuries. Students will learn about the origin and development of positivism, the representatives of idealism, the representatives of realism (including perennialism); the pedagogy of culture, neo-Thomism, Protestant currents, Marxist pedagogy, fascist pedagogy, pragmatic education, constructivism, social reconstructionism, phenomenology; existentialism, psychoanalytically-oriented pedagogy, neopsychoanalytic currents, logotherapy, eclectic currents (Walfdorf pedagogy), the alternative and anti-pedagogical currents of the 20th century; and the influence of postmodern thinking on education. Students will learn about important figures in the Czech philosophy of education including Masaryk, Hessen, Hendrych, Palouš, Pešková, Michálek, Sobotka, Sokol, Pelcová and others.
The topics of the course will be chosen depending on the nature of dissertations of the seminar participants. Attention will be paid to general topics in the philosophy of education, such as: the relationship between philosophy and professional sciences (pedagogy, sociology, psychology, etc.); the anthropological character of education; the individual and her/his world; the goal and content of education; humans in relation to technology; education in the postmodern age; the science of past and present historical thinking; the search for identity, home, care for the soul; humans in relation to the universe; the meaning of education; and problems of education in today's world.
By completing this compulsory elective course, PhD. students who haven’t taken a final examination in pedagogy can fulfill their obligation to pass an examination in pedagogy or pedagogical psychology.