The system and thinkers of educational science

 

The aim of the subject is to provide an introduction to

- the history of the development, internal structure and structure of educational science,

- to review the main trends in educational theory, to introduce significant thinkers and theorists.

In the course, we will review the representatives of reform pedagogies and alternative trends of the 20th and 21st centuries, and we will discuss the changes in the image of children and childhood in the 21st century.

 

Literature:

Palmer, Joy. A. (ed. 2001): Fifty major thinkers on education: from Confucius to Dewey. Routledge, London, Ney York.

 

Eichelberger, Harald: The importance of reform pedagogy. https://www.eichelberger.at/?p=20

 

Aubrey, Kerl - Riley, Alison, 2022: Understanding and using Educational theories. Sage.

 

Steinberg, Shirley R. (ed. 2011): Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood. 3rd Edition, Routledge, New Yortk, London.

 

Postman, Neil, 1982, 1994: The Disappearance of Childhood. Vintage eBooks. A Division of Random House, Inc. New York.