As noted above under Course Objectives, undergraduate students will conduct Internet research into secondary sources helpful for the cultural-historical contextualiza tion of educational philosophers and their schools of thought. ELPS-302 will give students the op portunity to discover the abundance of such material to be found on the World Wide Web. It has become a clich , though not one without merit, that the university s very essence concerns the most important and, some say, the most overlooked diversity of all, namely, the diversity of intellectual ideas that many see as the university s raison d tre . And philosophy traditionally has been hawking its wares at the very center of that intellectual marketplace. Such radically diverse ideas have dramatically disparate implications for education and educational policy.
Ideas do indeed have consequences.
Steven M. Cahn, ed . Classic and Contemporary Readings in the Philosophy of Education . Education at the Crossroads . Learning Strategies Course delivery will be a mix of lecture and seminar format, the mix deter mined to a great extent by the material we will be covering at any given session. The more philo sophically difficult the material, the more will my pre-discussion lecture be appropriate.