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PED1021 - Enlightenment, Society and Education

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Examination arrangement

Examination arrangement: Report
Grade: Letters

Evaluation Weighting Duration Grade deviation Examination aids
Rapport 100/100

Course content

Knowledge has become an increasingly theme in modern education in deciding what to be transferred from one generation to the next. Over time knowledge has proven to be a two-edged sword of both social scientific mastery as enlightenment and of social regulation and control of agents within educational institutions. The course outlines and explores this contradiction and points out consequences and educational possibilities keeping this contradiction in mind. It implies a basic focus on micro interactions in pedagogical settings and what they owe to their overall conditions: historical inheritance, bodily and social experiences, cultural diversity as well as series of macro level conditions. Pedagogical practices in formal, informal and non-formal education will be considered as well as the relationship between them. Basic theories on education will be attributed to empirical research on educational practices and on socialization.


Learning outcome

The course renders knowledge about and theoretical perspectives on:
- The relationship between knowledge as enlightenment and social control.
- The relationship between pedagogical interactions and contextual. conditions
- The relations between formal, informal and non-formal education.

Learning methods and activities

Teaching methods: Self-study with supervision, individual or group based, combined with four seminars focusing on selected parts of the curriculum, and one project seminar.



Assessment: A written assignment limited to the maximum of 10 pages. Topic, research question and theory must be approved by the responsible course coordinator before November 1st. Deadline for the hand-in is December 10th.

Compulsory assignments

  • Contribution in one seminar or compulsory written assignment 4-6 pages

Required previous knowledge

None.

Course materials

The reading list for the course counts around 500 pages of which until 100 pages are to be selected by the student. The selected readings must be approved by the responsible course coordinator before November 1st.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From To
PED1023 7.5
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Facts

Version: 1
Credits:  7.5 SP
Study level: Foundation courses, level I

Coursework

Term no.: 1
Teaching semester:  AUTUMN 2013

Language of instruction: English

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Subject area(s)
  • Education
  • Social Sciences
Contact information
Course coordinator:
  • Bent Olsen
Lecturer(s):
  • Pål Aarsand

Department with academic responsibility

Examination

Examination arrangement: Report

Term Status code Evaluation Weighting Examination aids Date Time Examination system Room *
Autumn ORD Rapport 100/100

Submission
2013-12-10

Room Building Number of candidates
  • * The location (room) for a written examination is published 3 days before examination date. If more than one room is listed, you will find your room at Studentweb.
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