Annotation
The course "History of the Philosophy of Education" is based on the concept of so-called "performative philosophy"; philosophy in which the main goal is to cultivate, transform and educate a person, to nurture his/her human and civic virtues, and to develop creativity in relation to the world and self-creation. Education is therefore revealed here in three areas of meaning - as a person's relationship to the world (care of the cosmos, care of logos), as the relationship between a person and society (care of the polis) and as a person’s relationship with her/himself (care of the soul). A part of this course is a philosophical interpretation of pedagogical concepts, which involves monitoring changes in educational discourse from its beginnings to the present day, with an emphasis on modern and postmodern educational situations.
Goals and content: The main goal of the course is to develop and cultivate students' ability to critically reflect on and evaluate teaching and educational professions, the meaning of education and current efforts to reform education, as well as to encourage students to question the methodological foundations of education, especially with regard to their own professional profile and experiences. In terms of content, it is an analysis of spiritual, phenomenological, hermeneutic, pragmatic and postmodern concepts of education.
The main topics:
• Ontological concepts of education (archetypes of education) - education as caring for the soul, as e-ducatio and as emendation (correction). Education as a way to reach harmony between the world and the individual.
• Instrumental education at the beginning of the modern age, the source of the subject-object schedule of the world and its effects on education at the beginning of the modern age. Concepts of open and closed souls. Science and knowledge.
• Changes to education in modern times - education to perfection, as the development of possibilities, education as a meeting, education as a dialogue, as an “agon”. The three dimensions of education - socialization, individuation and transcendence. Education as a movement of life. Education in an educational society. The crisis of education and education as a way out of the crises of the world.