B.Ed. (I Semester)
Philosophical Perspectives of Education
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SYLLABUS

Unit I

• Education – Meaning, Concept, Nature and aims of education.
• Agencies of Education – Formal, Informal, Non-Formal- Role of Home, School, Society, Mass Media and social media.

Unit II

• Philosophy – Meaning, Concept, Nature, Relationship between Philosophy and Education.
• Functions of Educational Philosophy, Comparison of Eastern and Western Philosophy.

Unit III

• Indian Philosophy and it's contribution : Vedanta, Jainism, Buddhism in the context of Education.
• Schools of Philosophy – Idealism, Naturalism, Pragmatism, Realism in the context of Education.

Unit IV

• Indian Educational thinker : Mahatma Gandhi, Ravindra Nath Tagore, Gijju Bhai, Swami Vivekananda and J. Krishna.
• Western Educational thinker : Plato, Rousseau, Paulo Freire and John Dewey.

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