Individual and Social Conceptions of Education

Pre-requisites: -

Course objectives: Understanding the essential assumptions and problems of individual and social conceptions of education; critical reflection and review of their theoretical-methodological foundations; training for research work in this field.

Course description: Theoretical-epistemological foundations of individual and social conceptions of education. Individual and social conceptions of education versus Herbart’s conception of education. J.J. Rousseau as a founder of individual conception of education. Tolstoy’s theory of free education. Pedocentrism in educational conception of E. Key. Pedology. Functional education of E. Claparede. Child’s activity in educational conception of A. Ferriere. P. Natorp’s social conception of education. Civic education of G. Kerschensteiner. Durkheim’s social conception of education. Cultural pedagogy and overcoming the opposites between individual and social conceptions of education. J. Dewey’s pedagogy as an attempt of overcoming the unilateralism of individual and social conceptions of education. Comparative review of understandings of the individual and social educational conceptions concerning essential educational ideas.

Learning Outcomes: Capacity for understanding the basic assumptions of individual and social conceptions of education, for critical analysis of their theoretical foundations and practical educational implications; capacity for conducting research in this field.

Literature/Reading:

• Blonskiй, P. P. (1979), Izabrannыe pedagogičeskie i psihologičeskie sočineniя, Moskva: Pedagogika
• Kej, E. (2001), Stoleće deteta, Zagreb: Eduka
• Kocić, Lj. (2002), Škola po meri Eduarda Klapareda, Beograd, Zbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja, br. 34, 141-155.
• Natorp, P. (1974), Sozalpadagogic, Padeboen: Ferdinand Schoning
• Rohrs, H. (2000), Georg Kerschensteiner, UNESCO, International Bureau of Education
• Tolstoй, L.N. (1948), Pedagogičeskie sočineniя, Moskva - Leningrad: Akademiя pedagogičeskih nauk.
• Filloux, J. (2001), Emile Durkheim, UNESCO, International Bureau Of Education
• Hameline, D. (2000), Adolphe Ferriere, UNESCO, International Bureau of Education.
• Westerbrook, R. (1999), John Dewey, UNESCO: International Bureau of Education