COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PHILOSOPHICAL APROACHES TO RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FDB 5216 PHILOSOPHICAL APROACHES TO RELIGIOUS EDUCATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR YUSUF CEYLAN

Offered to

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Course Objective

To introduce philosophical approaches that are effective in religious education and teaching. To demonstrate debates on reality and knowledge in the philosophy of religious education. To examine the philosophical background of religious education models.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students understand the philosophical approaches that are effective in religious education
2   Students will learn the current debates in the philosophy of religious education.
3   Students will understand the basic assumptions of the critical-realist philosophy of religious education and their implications of the educational process.
4   Students can compare philosophical foundations of religious education models

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introducation
2 Understanding of Knowledge in Philosophy of Education
3 The Effect of Understandings of knowledge to Basic Assumptions in religious education models.
4 Some critics to the relgious educaiton from Anti-positivist understandings of knowledge
5 Understandings of human beings in Philosophy of Education
6 The reflections of understandings of human on religious education models.
7 Current philosophical debates in religious education: The Case of the Nature of Religious Knowledge
8 Mid-Term Exam
9 Examining some philosophical backgrounds behind the religious education models.
10 Theorical Assumptions of Critical Realist Theory in Philosophy of Religious Education
11 The Application Process of Critical Realist theory on Religious Education
12 Views of Contemporary Religious Educators I
13 Views of Contemporary Religious Educators II
14 Evaluation of Course
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Wright, Andrew. Religion, Education and Postmodernity, 2004.
2. Jeff Astley, The Philosophy of Christian Religious Education, 1994.
3. Muhittin Okumuşlar, Yapılandırmacı Yaklaşım ve Din Eğitimi, 2008
4. Jackson, Robert. Din Eğitimi: Yorumlayıcı Bir Yaklaşım. 2005
5. Mark Halstead, Religious Education, Encyclopedia of Religion, 2005.
6. Cemal Tosun, Din Eğitimi Bilimine Giriş, 2011.
7. Yusuf Ceylan, Eğitimde Yapılandırmacılık ve Din Eğitimi, 2013.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

ecturing, research, question answer, studying on examples, homework and practice.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Students achievements are calculated from the results of mid-term exam, homework assignments, final exam and active participation to the lecture.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

yusuf.ceylan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Reading 1 20 20
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.13445
LO.23445
LO.33445
LO.43445

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