Course outline

Education: Meanings, concept and function

Compnents of education 

Aims of education: Democratic and totalitarian

Education: Science or Art?

  • Types of education
  • Foundations of educations
  1. Philoophical foundation
  2. Sociological foundations
  3. Psychological foundation
  4. Economic foundation
  5. Historical foundation
  6. Islamic foundation
  • Unit 2: Philosophical foundation
  • Philosophy: Nature, types and components or branches of philosophy
  • ( Epeistomology, Axiology, ontology)
  • Relationship between education and philosophy
  • A brief introduction to general philosophies and their realtionship with education(Idealism, Realism, Pragmatism, Existentialism)
  • Educational philosophies
  1. Perennialism
  2. Essentialism
  3. Progressivism
  4. Reconstructionism
  5. Existentialism
  • Islamic philosophy of education
  •  Role/ scope of educational philosophies in the develpment of educational system -implications
  • Unit-3: Sociolological Foundations
  • Educational Sociology : concept, scope, function and relationship with education
  • Education and society
  • Child's socialization : Family, peers, school and education
  • Sociological tendency in education
  • Nature of society, cultural and school
  • Institutions and agencies of education: Formal and informal( home, community, state)
  • Social control
  • Education social change
  • Social stratification and mobility
  • Education for social development/ functinof education in social developmnt.
  • Education as process in social system: social activity
  •  social values in education
  • Education and modernization
  •  The role of mass media i education
  • Educaton for national integration
  • Deschooling society
  • Equity, equality and adequecy i education
  • Sociometric studies and social surveys
  • Education for dealng social issues: Terrorism, ethnic clashes, violence. prevention of driugs abuses, politicization of education, women education, reilgious and moral education etc.)
  • Unit- 4: Psychological Foundations
  • Psychology: Study of character and vehavior
  • Teacher's awarness about students need and problems
  • Role of psychology in classroom management, teaching, learing, evaluation,gradation and effective teachi
  • Teacher and taught motivaton and moral building
  • Personality , creativity and intelligence
  • Creating learning environment in schools
  •  Individul difference in education
  • Unit-5: Economic Foundations of education
  • Economics: Basic concepts,  and relationship  with education
  •  Role of education in the economic development of a country
  • ducation: Investment or consumption
  • The economic value if education
  • Priorities and patterns of  instrument ineducation in developed and developing countries
  • Micro and macro- economics 
  • Human capital theory in education
  • Cost- benefit analysis in education
  •  Social and private returns of educations
  • Unit-6: Historical Foundations of Education in Pkaistan
  • A brief overview of the history of teacher education in pakistan
  • First Educational conference 1947
  • Second EDucatioal conference 1951
  • National commission on Education 1959
  • New Education policy 1969
  • Education policy 1972
  • National Education policy 1979
  • National Educational policy 1992
  • National educational policy 1998-2010
  • Education Sector Reforms 2000-04
  • Analysis of eight five year  educational plans 1955-1998
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