EDKP 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Essentialism, Cultural Relativism, Socratic Method
3 Sep 2018
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Education: 1) the process of educating or being educated; theory and practice of teaching; information about or training in a particular subject 2) (an education) informal and enlightening experience. To educate: give intellectual, moral, and social instruction to; train or give information on a particular subject. As an activity or process, education may be formal or informal, private or public, individual or social, but it always consists in cultivating dispositions (abilities, skills, knowledges, beliefs, attitudes, values, and character traits) by certain methods. As a discipline, education studies or reflects on the activity or enterprise by asking questions about its aims, methods, effects, forms, history, costs, value, and relations to society. Intellectual, moral, and social instruction: good upbringing/social skills. Two definitions go beyond the transmission and acquisition of knowledge, the ins and outs underlying such activities, and their impact on how to act in public.
