AXIOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LEARNING

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This advanced course discusses ethical and philosophical controversial issues related to education. Postmodernist positions in educational philosophy and the impact of these on contemporary society are identified, as well as their ethical influences on the integral formation of the individual through the process of learning. Axiological and epistemological aspects are analyzed as they are displayed in the original texts. Axiological proposals in the education of Dewey, the movement of value clarification, the theory of ethical cognitive development of Kohlberg and the philosophical tenets of Hostos are studied. Reflection and search of explanations and paradigms for philosophical approach to global reality, to the power structures that impact the educational culture and the impact of these factors on the process of self-regulation of learning.