Philosophical Agology

6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1010755ANR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester

2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Taught in

Dutch

Faculty

Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

Department

Educatiewetenschappen

Educational team

Tom Vanwing
Pieter Meurs (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

26 contact hours Lecture
13 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals

Course Content

This course will delve into some fundamental questions of agologie. It builts upon the introductory bachelor-courses. Students are challenged to discuss and analyse the definitions of agogiek. There is a specific focus on the relation between ago(lo)gie and philosophy. The political role of the agoog/agogiek/social-cultural field will be questioned from a political and philosophical point of view. Concepts such as worldviews, ideology and the political cosmopolitanism will be addressed from an ago(lo)gical point of view.

This course includes a group assignment (with presentation). Students will get acquainted in small groups (3-4 students) with the field and its political meaning. Each group works independently with an organization or local actor and Brussels is considered as a living lab.

Course material

Handbook (Required) : Tegen Verbeelding, Meurs, P., VUBPress, 9789057186936, 2017
Digital course material (Required) : Lesslides en wetenschappelijke papers, Canvas
Digital course material (Recommended) : Bijkomende wetenschappelijke papers en boeken

Additional info

Students are encouraged to actively participate in group discussions during class.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

At the end of this course, the student will be able to

- critically analyze informal educational (agogical) concepts and apply them to informal educational practices

- analyze the political role and meaning of informal educational sciences

- understand the importance of ’the political’ for the educational field

- describe, illustrate and compare the most important concepts of worldviews and ideologie

- make links between the informal educational context and political-philosophical concepts

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 60% of the final mark.
SELF Teamwork determines 40% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Oral exam with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 60% of the final mark.

Within the SELF Teamwork category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Group assignment with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 40% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

In order to pass, students need to obtain a 10/20 on both the oral examination and the assignment. When a student does not obtain 10/20 on one of the examination components, this component has to be retaken during the second examination period. In the second examination period, the group assignment will be replaced by an individual paper.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context