SODA009 Social Theories and Theories of Education in the Paradigms of Knowledge 1

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Dušan Klapko, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Dušan Klapko, Ph.D.
Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Kateřina Štěpařová
Supplier department: Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites
The course is designed as a mandatory in the PhD study programme of Social Education. The course is based on the assumption that PhD students understand the difference in the methodological paradigms of research, specifically between the scientific and social science approach.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The course introduces the topic of paradigms of knowledge, represented by social theories, anchored in the problematic nature of educational reality. The baseline oftheir study is a systemic view of the theories presented, incorporating cultural and social factors, discursive practice, educational policy, institutional power, and academic theories of education. The aim of the course is to anchor the academic competencies of the social educator in an interdisciplinary fashion, while also strengthening the social educator's competences for work in the context of non-academic educational practice.
Learning outcomes
The PhD students will be able to: • explain the basic terms and theoretical framework of the studies topics, • interpret social theories in the social-cultural context of the time period, • apply theoretical frameworks in analyzing various issues in the field of social education, • assess the benefits of authors and theories studied throughout the course for the competences of a social educator.
Syllabus
  • 1. Position of social sciences in the context of scientific paradigms (Winch). The structure of scientific revolutions (Kuhn). 2. Social theories and their application to educational phenomena. Education as a non-science (Brezinka). Current theories of education (Bertrand). The theory of miseducation (Liessmann), postmodern education. 3. Constructivism (Gergen), social construction of reality, social stock and distribution of knowledge (Berger, Luckmann). 4. The phenomenological dimension of the knowledge of the everyday and Lebenswelt (Schütz), subjective world and intersubjectivity (Husserl). 5. Pragmatic enactivism, generalised other, the Self as a subject and object, theory of behaviour (Mead). 6. Poststructuralism, second linguistic turn (Wittgenstein), the order of discourse and dispositives (Foucault), the theory of speech acts (Austin, Searle), the theory of personality traits and prejudice (Allport). 7. Evaluation of the contribution of the discussed authors and theories for the competencies of a social educator.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • GERGEN, Kenneth J. An invitation to social construction. 2nd ed. London: Sage, 2009, xii, 186. ISBN 9781412923019. info
  • REISIGL, Martin and Ruth WODAK. Discourse and discrimination : rhetorics of racism and antisemitism. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2001, xiv, 298 s. ISBN 0-415-23149-3. info
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Power. Edited by James D. Faubion, Translated by Robert J. Hurley. New York: New Press, 2000, xliii, 484. ISBN 9781565847095. info
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Discipline and punish : the birth of the prison. Translated by Alan Sheridan. 1st pub. London: Penguin Books, 1991, 333 s. ISBN 014013722X. info
  • SCHUTZ, Alfred and Thomas LUCKMANN. The structures of the life-world. 1st pub. London: Heinemann, 1974, xxx, 335. ISBN 0435828193. info
  • SEARLE, John R. Speech acts : an essay in the philosophy of language. 1st publ. Cambridge: University Press, 1969, vi, 203. ISBN 052109626X. info
  • PARSONS, Talcott. The structure of social action : a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent european writers. 1st ed. New York: Free Press, 1968, xxviii, 47. info
  • MEAD, George Herbert. Mind, self, and society : from the standpoint of a social behaviorist. Edited by Charles W. Morris. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967, xxxviii, 4. ISBN 0226516687. info
  • BERGER, Peter Ludwig and Thomas LUCKMANN. The social construction of reality :a treatise in the sociology of knowledge. 1st pub. London: Penguin Press, 1967, 249 s. ISBN 0-14-013548-0. info
  • ALLPORT, Gordon Willard. The nature of prejudice. Garden City: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1958, xxii, 496. info
Teaching methods
lecture, discussion, self-study, feedback evaluation.
Assessment methods
Colloquium: oral scientific debate on the state of knowledge of social issues
Language of instruction
English
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024.
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