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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

13113 (v.4) Philosophy of Knowledge 726

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Area: School of Education
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Workshop: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Introduction to philosophy; the pursuit of truth; philosophies of East and West; historical overview of philosophy and education; historical overview of philosophy and research; theories and paradigms; ontology - the nature of reality; positivist and empiricist paradigm; Popper and the falsificationist paradigm; critical paradigm; postpositivist /pragmatist paradigm; feminist and gender-studies paradigm; postmodernist and relativistic paradigm including interpretivism, constructivism, constructionism; integral/post postmodernist paradigm.
Field of Education: 091700 Philosophy and Religious Studies (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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