Aims

Teach students to prepare, give and grade philosphy courses, both as to levels of content and methods of instruction.

Main themes

Contents: The principles that should guide the preparation of philosophy courses. Particularly, as to the contents of lectures, the importance to be accorded respectively to philosophical concepts, arguments, authors, to the history of thought, to other disciplines taught (physics, history and syntax...), to the lived experiences of students, to present-day realities, etc. And as for methods of instruction, the place that shoukd be reserved for practical work, cooperation between students, the directive role of the instructor, philosophical texts, the media, audio-visual materiel, and confrontation of opposing viewpoints, as well as the place to be reserved for dialogue, conversation and discussion.

Method: In the context of exercices, students should prepare a philosphy lecture under the professor's direction. There will also be working meetings with instructors in secondary education allowing students to benefit from their experience and advice.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Prerequisite: hold a baccalaureate diploma (licence) in philosophy
Support: didactical library of philosophy

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