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(in Polish) Wykład w języku angielskim na poziomie B2+: Virtue and Dialog centered Moral Education. Philosophical references

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Course ID: WNP-PE-SL-2021-22
Erasmus code / ISCED: (unknown) / (unknown)
Course title: (unknown)
Name in Polish: Wykład w języku angielskim na poziomie B2+: Virtue and Dialog centered Moral Education. Philosophical references
Organizational unit: Faculty of Education
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): 2.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles:
  • the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS;
  • the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h;
  • 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes;
  • weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS;
  • work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.
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Language: English
Subject level:

elementary
Learning outcome code/codes:

NP2_W12, NP2_W14,

NP2_U03, NP2_U10,

NP2_K01
Preliminary Requirements:

Preliminary requirements associated with the subject: Student has basic knowledge from philosophy, especially from moral philosophy and ethics; is able to make use of main theoretical expressions describing moral literacy and educational competencies.
Short description:

The course provides students with the theoretical background, concept and structure of morality and character, with special emphasis on educational dimensions of virtue ethics and dialogue ethics. Students will expand skills that are necessary to read and interpret selected classical texts and to apply them to the very current educational challenges and tasks.
Full description:

The content of lectures and reading and interpreting text seminars will cover the following topics:

1. Aristotle: What is the goal of life? Virtue character. (2h)

2. Aristotle: Friendship. Moral Friendship as a goal of education. (2h)

3. Martin Buber: Character education. Normative one is not enough. (2h)

4. Hannah Arend: The crisis of our age and what they tell us about the nature of education (2h)

5. Emmanuel Levinas: The primacy of ethics over ontology; the other as a "first". (2h)

6. Emmanuel Mounier: Relational being of man. Dimensions of life and challenges for human character. (2h)

7. Jacques Maritain: In the end again: the goal of life and education. What mistakes do we make? What does this mean for us? (3h)
Bibliography:

1. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics. Translated, with Introduction, Notes and Glossary, by Terence Irwin. Second edition. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company Inc., 1999. E-book available on internet: https://eclass.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/PHS433/Nicomachean%20Ethics.pdf

2. Buber, Martin: Between Man and Man. London – New York: Routledge Classics, 2002. Chapters 3. and 4. E-book available on internet: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/10616720/buber-between-man-and-man-in-bbpdf-polkfolk

3. Arendt, Hannah: Between Past and Future. New York: Viking Press, 1961. Chapters 5. and 6. E-book available on internet: https://pensarelespaciopublico.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/hannah-arendt-between-past-and-future.pdf

4. Levinas, Emmanuel: Totality and Infinity. An Essey on Exteriority. Translated by Alphonso Lingis. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2007. Section III. E-book available on internet: https://www.academia.edu/44228291/Totality_and_Infinity_An_Essay_on_Exteriority_Emmanuel_Levinas

5. Mounier, Emmanuel: Personalism. Translated by Philip Mairet. London: Routledge and Kegan paul Ltd, 1962. E-book available on internet: https://archive.org/details/personalism031987mbp

6. Maritain, Jacques: Education at the Crossroads. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1943, pp. 1-38.

Additional literature:

1. Rajský, Andrej – Wiesenganger, Marek: Moral Virtue and the Other In: Rajský, Andrej – Wiesenganger, Marek (eds.): Relationality in Education of Morality. Berlín : Peter Lang, 2021. - ISBN 978-3-631-85264-4. - pp. 15-34.

2. Rajský, Andrej: Love as absolute challenge - also for education In: Kultura i Wychowanie. - ISSN 2083-2923. - Vol. 16, nr. 2 (2019), pp. 89-98 [online:] https://pedagogika.pl/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/KiW_16_e_book.pdf

3. Rajský, Andrej: Toward a philosophy of moral education In: Forum Pedagogiczne. - ISSN 2083-6325. - Vol. 2016, no. 2/1 (2016), pp. 281-291. [online:] http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.desklight-c796e84d-f639-4dac-8a0d-9185ad3a9c60

4. Rajský, Andrej: The Secret of Youth against nihilism of the youth according to Umberto Galimberti In: Konteksty Pedagogiczne = Pedagogical Contexts. - ISSN 2300-6471. - Vol. 9, č. 2 (2017), pp. 115-126. [online:] http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.ojs-doi-10_19265_KP_2017_029115

5. Rajský, Andrej: What’s Wrong in Modern Education? Maritain’s Warning is Valid Today More than Ever In: Caritas et veritas [online] - ISSN 1805-0948. - Roč. 8, č. 2 (2018), pp. 59-77 [online:] https://www.caritasetveritas.cz/artkey/cev-201802-0008_what-s-wrong-in-modern-education-maritain-s-warning-is-valid-today-more-than-ever.php

6. Rajský, Andrej: Ethics of Three Persons and Transcendence In: Spirituality Studies. - ISSN 1339-9578. - Vol. 5, no. 2 (2019), pp. 12-23. [online:] https://www.spirituality-studies.org/volume5-issue2-fall2019/

7. Buber, Martin: I and Thou. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1937. E-book available on internet:

http://www.maximusveritas.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/iandthou.pdf

8. Maritain, Jacques: The Education of Man. The Educational Philosophy of Jacques Maritain. Edited, and with an Introduction, by Donald and Idella Gallagher. New York: Doubleday and Co. Inc, 1962. E-book available on internet: Library Genesis: Jacques Maritain - Education of Man (libgen.is).

 Resources available at https://www.jubileecentre.ac.uk/

 Resources available at https://p4c.com/
Efekty kształcenia i opis ECTS:

KNOWLEDGE:

- Student receives knowledge on human morality and ethical education, especially in terms of interpreting classical european philosophical texts with view to the possibilities of their pedagogical application;

- Student has well arranged knowledge about the position of goals, meanings and processes of moral education, especially in the context of public school education;

SKILLS:

- Student has abilities to search, name and register ethical concepts and solutions of moral-educational problems within classical texts;

- Student is able to cooperate with others, work in a team, update and exchange professional and educational information;

COMPETENCIES:

- Student realizes the need for continuing personal and professional development within his/her specialization and building the cooperative research community.

ECTS [1 ECTS = 25 (30)h]:

- participation in classes - 15h

- preparation for classes - 25h

- preparing the paper - 20h

ECTS: 2
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:

Assessment criteria - Methods for verification + symbol effect in the path of studies syllabus:

- Study / paper: theoretical essay, original concept, consistent thinking supported by analysis and subsequent arguments

- Individual evaluation of sources;

- Active participation in conversation classes;

- Work in teams.

Students must attend at least 80% of classes to pass the course.

Scores:

1) Essay – analyse and evaluation of sources - 40 points

2) Essay – consistent thinking supported by analysis and subsequent arguments - 40 points

3) Work in teams - 10 points

4) Active participation in conversation classes - 10 points

Course requirements

Completion of one paper (essay) which will be tree to five pages in length (excluding references), typed one and half-spaced. Paper requires the student to take ideas from the readings, lectures, presentations and discussions for the chosen problem with application the theoretical solutions to short educational intervention of moral education – which will be virtue and dialogue centered. Papers must be an application of ideas rather than simply a regurgitation of class materials.

Active participation during online lectures.

Final score:

60-67 p. - 3,0

68-75 p. - 3,5

76-83 p. - 4,0

84-91 p. - 4,5

92-100 p.-5,0

Classes in period "Summer semester 2021/22" (past)

Time span: 2022-02-01 - 2022-06-30
Selected timetable range:
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Type of class:
Lectures, 15 hours, 16 places more information
Coordinators: Andrej Rajský
Group instructors: Andrej Rajský
Course homepage: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/channel/19%3aCoJ7x4-zJSliUQPx1INSbCZdPlZx1AUDjOrz3W4YjwY1%40thread.tacv2/General?groupId=059d1e6e-5756-4b21-9722-e7bc1c567feb&tenantId=12578430-c51b-4816-8163-c7281035b9b3
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Examination: Course - graded credit
Lectures - graded credit
(in Polish) E-Learning:

(in Polish) E-Learning (pełny kurs) z podziałem na grupy
Type of subject:

obligatory
(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych:

(in Polish) PO/S2 - obszar nauk społecznych - II stopień
Short description:

The course provides students with the theoretical background, concept and structure of morality and character, with special emphasis on educational dimensions of virtue ethics and dialogue ethics. Students will expand skills that are necessary to read and interpret selected classical texts and to apply them to the very current educational challenges and tasks.
Full description:

The content of lectures and reading and interpreting text seminars will cover the following topics:

1. Aristotle: What is the goal of life? Virtue character. (2h)

2. Aristotle: Friendship. Moral Friendship as a goal of education. (2h)

3. Martin Buber: Character education. Normative one is not enough. (2h)

4. Hannah Arend: The crisis of our age and what they tell us about the nature of education (2h)

5. Emmanuel Levinas: The primacy of ethics over ontology; the other as a "first". (2h)

6. Emmanuel Mounier: Relational being of man. Dimensions of life and challenges for human character. (2h)

7. Jacques Maritain: In the end again: the goal of life and education. What mistakes do we make? What does this mean for us? (3h)

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Course schedule

Week Topic Readings

1st week

(2 hrs)

7/3/2022

9.45-11.15 Introduction.

Aristotle: What is the goal of life? Virtue character. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics. Translated, with Introduction, Notes and Glossary, by Terence Irwin. Second edition. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company Inc., 1999. E-book available on internet: https://eclass.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/PHS433/Nicomachean%20Ethics.pdf

Especially chapters (books) I and II.

2nd week

(2 hrs)

14/3/2022

9.45-11.15 Aristotle: Friendship. Moral Friendship as a goal of education. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics. Translated, with Introduction, Notes and Glossary, by Terence Irwin. Second edition. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company Inc., 1999. E-book available on internet: https://eclass.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/PHS433/Nicomachean%20Ethics.pdf

Especially chapters (books) VIII and IX.

3rd week

(2 hrs)

21/3/2022

9.45-11.15 Martin Buber: Character education. Normative one is not enough. Buber, Martin: Between Man and Man. London – New York: Routledge Classics, 2002. Chapters 3. and 4. E-book available on internet: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/10616720/buber-between-man-and-man-in-bbpdf-polkfolk

Optional: Buber, Martin: I and Thou. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1937. E-book available on internet: http://www.maximusveritas.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/iandthou.pdf

4th week

(2 hrs)

28/3/2022

9.45-11.15 Hannah Arend: The crisis of our age and what they tell us about the nature of education Arendt, Hannah: Between Past and Future. New York: Viking Press, 1961. Chapters 5. and 6. E-book available on internet: https://pensarelespaciopublico.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/hannah-arendt-between-past-and-future.pdf

5th week

(2 hrs)

4/4/2022

9.45-11.15

Emmanuel Levinas: The primacy of ethics over ontology; the other as a "first".

Levinas, Emmanuel: Totality and Infinity. An Essey on Exteriority. Translated by Alphonso Lingis. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2007. Section III. E-book available on internet: https://www.academia.edu/44228291/Totality_and_Infinity_An_Essay_on_Exteriority_Emmanuel_Levinas

Optional: Rajský, Andrej – Wiesenganger, Marek: Moral Virtue and the Other In: Rajský, Andrej – Wiesenganger, Marek (eds.): Relationality in Education of Morality. Berlín : Peter Lang, 2021. - ISBN 978-3-631-85264-4. - pp. 15-34.

Rajský, Andrej: Love as absolute challenge - also for education In: Kultura i Wychowanie. - ISSN 2083-2923. - Vol. 16, nr. 2 (2019), pp. 89-98 [online:] https://pedagogika.pl/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/KiW_16_e_book.pdf

6th week

(2 hrs)

11/4/2022

9.45-11.15

Emmanuel Mounier: Relational being of man. Dimensions of life and challenges for human character. Mounier, Emmanuel: Personalism. Translated by Philip Mairet. London: Routledge and Kegan paul Ltd, 1962. E-book available on internet: https://archive.org/details/personalism031987mbp

7th week

(2 hrs)

25/4/2022

9.45-11.15

(1 hr)

11.15-12.00

Jacques Maritain: In the end again: the goal of life and education. What mistakes do we make? What does this mean for us?

The end of the course, discussion of the final evaluation Maritain, Jacques: Education at the Crossroads. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1943, pp. 1-38.

Optional:

Rajský, Andrej: What’s Wrong in Modern Education? Maritain’s Warning is Valid Today More than Ever In: Caritas et veritas [online] - ISSN 1805-0948. - Roč. 8, č. 2 (2018), pp. 59-77 [online:] https://www.caritasetveritas.cz/artkey/cev-201802-0008_what-s-wrong-in-modern-education-maritain-s-warning-is-valid-today-more-than-ever.php

Maritain, Jacques: The Education of Man. The Educational Philosophy of Jacques Maritain. Edited, and with an Introduction, by Donald and Idella Gallagher. New York: Doubleday and Co. Inc, 1962. E-book available on internet: Library Genesis: Jacques Maritain - Education of Man (libgen.is).
Bibliography:

1. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics. Translated, with Introduction, Notes and Glossary, by Terence Irwin. Second edition. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company Inc., 1999. E-book available on internet: https://eclass.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/PHS433/Nicomachean%20Ethics.pdf

2. Buber, Martin: Between Man and Man. London – New York: Routledge Classics, 2002. Chapters 3. and 4. E-book available on internet: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/10616720/buber-between-man-and-man-in-bbpdf-polkfolk

3. Arendt, Hannah: Between Past and Future. New York: Viking Press, 1961. Chapters 5. and 6. E-book available on internet: https://pensarelespaciopublico.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/hannah-arendt-between-past-and-future.pdf

4. Levinas, Emmanuel: Totality and Infinity. An Essey on Exteriority. Translated by Alphonso Lingis. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2007. Section III. E-book available on internet: https://www.academia.edu/44228291/Totality_and_Infinity_An_Essay_on_Exteriority_Emmanuel_Levinas

5. Mounier, Emmanuel: Personalism. Translated by Philip Mairet. London: Routledge and Kegan paul Ltd, 1962. E-book available on internet: https://archive.org/details/personalism031987mbp

6. Maritain, Jacques: Education at the Crossroads. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1943, pp. 1-38.

Additional literature:

1. Rajský, Andrej – Wiesenganger, Marek: Moral Virtue and the Other In: Rajský, Andrej – Wiesenganger, Marek (eds.): Relationality in Education of Morality. Berlín : Peter Lang, 2021. - ISBN 978-3-631-85264-4. - pp. 15-34.

2. Rajský, Andrej: Love as absolute challenge - also for education In: Kultura i Wychowanie. - ISSN 2083-2923. - Vol. 16, nr. 2 (2019), pp. 89-98 [online:] https://pedagogika.pl/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/KiW_16_e_book.pdf

3. Rajský, Andrej: Toward a philosophy of moral education In: Forum Pedagogiczne. - ISSN 2083-6325. - Vol. 2016, no. 2/1 (2016), pp. 281-291. [online:] http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.desklight-c796e84d-f639-4dac-8a0d-9185ad3a9c60

4. Rajský, Andrej: The Secret of Youth against nihilism of the youth according to Umberto Galimberti In: Konteksty Pedagogiczne = Pedagogical Contexts. - ISSN 2300-6471. - Vol. 9, č. 2 (2017), pp. 115-126. [online:] http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.ojs-doi-10_19265_KP_2017_029115

5. Rajský, Andrej: What’s Wrong in Modern Education? Maritain’s Warning is Valid Today More than Ever In: Caritas et veritas [online] - ISSN 1805-0948. - Roč. 8, č. 2 (2018), pp. 59-77 [online:] https://www.caritasetveritas.cz/artkey/cev-201802-0008_what-s-wrong-in-modern-education-maritain-s-warning-is-valid-today-more-than-ever.php

6. Rajský, Andrej: Ethics of Three Persons and Transcendence In: Spirituality Studies. - ISSN 1339-9578. - Vol. 5, no. 2 (2019), pp. 12-23. [online:] https://www.spirituality-studies.org/volume5-issue2-fall2019/

7. Buber, Martin: I and Thou. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1937. E-book available on internet:

http://www.maximusveritas.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/iandthou.pdf

8. Maritain, Jacques: The Education of Man. The Educational Philosophy of Jacques Maritain. Edited, and with an Introduction, by Donald and Idella Gallagher. New York: Doubleday and Co. Inc, 1962. E-book available on internet: Library Genesis: Jacques Maritain - Education of Man (libgen.is).

 Resources available at https://www.jubileecentre.ac.uk/

 Resources available at https://p4c.com/
Wymagania wstępne: (in Polish)

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