Review article
Determination of the Goal of Education through the Determination of the Concept of Knowledge
Draženka Skupnjak
orcid.org/0000-0001-5016-1484
; Elementary School Petrijanec, Croatia
Abstract
This paper attempts to determine the goal of education through the determination of the concept of knowledge. Appreciation of the theme begins by considering the concepts and possible differentiation of relations of upbringing and education. An attempt of defining the concept of knowledge in Plato’s theory of knowledge as justified and true beliefs follows next. There are two opposed hypotheses about the nature of knowledge: the knowledge can reach its final form and the knowledge can not reach its final form, it is a process. Regarding the contradictory notions of the knowledge as a state and the knowledge as a process, the educational goals and their feasibility can be defined either as methodologically feasible but less worthy goal of learning, or epistemological justified but unattainable goal of acquiring capacity of knowledge expansion, i.e. learning to learn. Value dimension of knowledge and its implications for the achievement of the educational goals are additional categories which should also be thought through. The choice of goals depends on the awareness and understanding of the complexity of the issues of education, and thus the overall philosophy of education.
Keywords
upbringing; education; knowledge; goals of education; knowledge acquisition; learning to learn; value dimension of knowledge
Hrčak ID:
109509
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Publication date:
10.9.2013.
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