COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATION OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FDB 5217 PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATION OF 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 base religious education and teaching philosophically. To gain the ability to evaluate the theoretical aspect and practices of religious education and teaching with a philosophical approach.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students comprehend importance of Philosophical grounds of religious education.
2   Students make philosophical analysis about basic terms in religious education.
3   Students can put philosophical approach to the problems of religious education
4   Students can resolve analytically to the concepts and issues in religious education.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction
2 The Need of Philosophical Foundation in Religious Education
3 Definition and Method of Philosophy of Education
4 Philosophical approach to Religious Education and to its problems
5 The method of Conceptual Analysis in Philosophy of Education
6 Philosophical Analysis of Basic Concepts in General Education and Religious Education
7 Linking the concepts used in religious education to the understandings of religious education.
8 Mid-term exam
9 Basic Principles determining the concepts that guiding to the practice pf Religious Education
10 Understanding Reality in Philosophy of Education
11 Positivist and anti-positivist understandings of reality
12 The Effect of Understandings of reality on the basic assumptions of Religious Education Models
13 Comparison of the Religious Education Models by their Understanding of reality
14 Evaluation of Course
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Nell Noddings, Philosophy of Education, 2013.
2. . Jeff Astley, The Philosophy of Christian Religious Education, 1994.
3. Ahmet Cevizci, Eğitim Felsefesi, 2014
4. Ina ter Avest, On the Edge: (Auto)biography and Pedagogical Theories on Religious Education, 2013.
5. Cemal Tosun, Din Eğitimi Bilimine Giriş, 2011.
6. Gabriel Moran, Religious Education, Encyclopedia of Religion.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing, 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

If needed, other assessment methods can be added to the table given below.

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

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
Reading 1 20 20
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
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.13335
LO.23335
LO.33335
LO.43335