Objectives and competences
The objective of this course is to enable the students to recognise alternative pedagogical concepts as important enrichments of traditional pedagogical thoughts and to offer the students simultaneously a theoretical apparatus which enables critical evaluation.
Content (Syllabus outline)
Fundamental concepts:
alternative schools, liberal schools, private schools;
alternative pedagogics, antipedagogics, pedagogics as a science.
Spiritual, sociopolitical as well as cultural backgrounds of school criticism and pedagogical reformational endeavours in the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries.
Common characteristics and the most popular projects of reformational pedagogics in Europe (Montessori, Waldorf, Freinet, Decroly,the Jena plan, Summerhill…).
Common characteristics and the most popular projects of progressive pedagogics in the USA(Dewey, the method of projects, the Dalton plan, the Winnetka plan.
Curricular characteristics of modern alternative schools and concepts.
Pedagogical justification and criticism of alternative pedagogical concepts.
Learning and teaching methods
• Lectures
• Seminar.
• Excursions
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
The students
capture the fundamental conceptual apparatus which enables a professional understanding and a debate over alternative pedagogical concepts related to school policies, ideological, social and cultural extensions;
understand the curricular characteristics of alternative pedagogical concepts in relation to the backgrounds of ideas;
get acquainted with a range of pedagogical innovations which have evolved within alternative pedagogical concepts and they qualify for their recognition within the public state school system;
conceptualise the limitations of the transfer of alternative pedagogical concepts into the public state school system.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
the ability of understanding and the usage of pedagogical ideas;
tolerance to what is different and the ability of argumentative expression of critical standpoints;
the ability of co-operation and team work;
he competence of professional writing skills and the use of a foreign language.
Readings
• Ravitch, D. (2001): Left back: a century of failed school reforms. New York idr.: A Touchstone Book.
• Matijević, M. (2001): Alternativne škole. Zagreb: Tipex.
• Fischer-Kowalski, M.; Pelikan, J.; Schandl, H. (1995): Grosse Freiheit für kleine Monster: Alternativschulen und Regelschulen im Vergleich. Wien: Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik.
• Devjak, T., S. Berčnik, M. Plestenjak (2008): Alternativni vzgojni koncepti. Ljubljana: Pedagoška fakulteta.
• Medveš, Z. (1992): Aktualnost reformske pedagogike v sodobnih vzgojnih konceptih in njen pomen v razvoju vzgoje in izobraževanja na Slovenskem. V: Rajtmajer, D. idr. (ur.), Vzgojni koncepti in raziskovanje v vzgoji in izobraževanju: zbornik prispevkov z mednarodnega posveta o alternativnih vzgojnih konceptih in znanstvenega simpozija o raziskovalnih dosežkih v vzgoji in izobraževanju. Maribor: Pedagoška fakulteta.
Dodatno literaturo bo nosilec določal sproti v vsakoletnem učnem programu / Aditional literature will be defined every study year by the lecturer
Prerequisits
A seminar paper is required to take the exam.
