3rd Social youth worker, Specialization in Educational Psychology - Bachelor

Neutrality

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ECTS Credits0
Number of Hours (h/year)20
Teaching staffBOCKIAU, Philippe
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1
CodePED-EEDU0005/3
Prerequisite

None

Aims and Objectives

In accordance with the decree on neutrality in education, the course aims at preparing students to active neutrality, i.e. the capacity to break away from one’s convictions in a debate while maintaining an active attitude.

Description

- Fundamentals : neutrality, secularism, pluralism, tolerance…

- Laws in education in Belgium from a historical perspective as of 1830: freedom of choice in education and other freedoms

- Citizenship: rights and duties in a democracy

- Philosophies, religions, sects. Fundamentalisms.

- Factual and historical criticism, revisionism, revisionist ideas denying the Nazi holocaust and memory

- Ethics and education

Bibliography

CANFORA Luciano, L’imposture démocratique, Du procès de Socrate à l’élection de G.W.Bush, Paris, Flammarion, 2003.

COLL., Guide pratique des religions et des convictions, Bruxelles, Communauté Wallonie-Bruxelles, Ousia, 2004.

DE COOREBYTER Vincent, La citoyenneté, Bruxelles, CRISP, Dossier n°56, 2002.

PETTIT Philippe, Républicanisme, Une théorie de la liberté et du gouvernement, Paris, Gallimard, 2004.

SCHNAPPER Dominique, La communauté des citoyens, Sur l’idée moderne de nation, Paris, Gallimard, 1994.

Teaching and Learning Methods

Theoretical classes, case studies and analysis of documents.

Assessment MethodsOral examinations

case studies

NotesYes
LanguageFrench

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