Anthropology of Education & Modern Pedagogical Trends

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Theory: 3 hours/week | Tutorials: 1 hour/week | ECTS Units: 3

Tutoring in the English language is offered to Erasmus students

Learning outcomes

The “Anthropology of Education and Modern Pedagogical Trends” course aims at introducing students of the Biochemistry and Biotechnology Department to contemporary pedagogical approaches and directions, and also to their philosophical and anthropological underpinnings. The course further contributes to the students’ essential pedagogical education, in the sense that it enables students to perceive teaching not merely as a technique for the implementation of plans but, what is more, as a creative process of communicational interaction. Moreover, it cultivates the awareness of prospective Bioscience teachers to issues relating to the environment, the living world, bioethics and the social dimensions of education and science.

Syllabus

  • The theoretical underpinnings of Pedagogy
  • Anthropological and social underpinnings of the educational process
  • Objectives and goals of the educational process
  • Guidelines and directions of education:
    • Assistance to the student toward adulthood and emancipation
    • Experiences of collective-democratic processes
  • Pedagogical pair and ostensible pedagogic antinomies
  • Person centered Pedagogy
  • Trends and systems of Pedagogy
  • Contemporary pedagogical problems:
    • Educational inequality and compensative education
    • Students with special needs and their education difficulties
    • Life-long education and training
    • Environmental education
    • Health education
    • Consumer education
    • Racism and Science: Genetics, Bioethics, Eugenics
    • Training in new technologies
    • Cross-cultural education
    • European dimension in education

Methodology of educational research: Qualitative and quantitative methods.

Student performance evaluation

Written exams.

Reading Suggestions

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Teaching Material / E-class

https://eclass.uth.gr/courses/BIO_U_105/

Lecturer

Pantazis Vasileios E. (Course Coordinator)