ETP102 - Social Contexts of Education

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Warrnambool, Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Community Based Delivery (CBD)*

Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 2: Emma Charlton
Prerequisite:

Students enrolled in course E359: ETP101

Students enrolled in course E200: ETP101 and completion of three units from EAD110, EAD111, EAD112 or EAD113

Corequisite:

Students must be enrolled in course E200 or E359

Incompatible with: Nil
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

Weeks 1, 2, 4-10: 1-hour Online Lecture; 2-hour Campus Seminar 

Week 3: 30-minute Online Reflective Discussion

Week 11: 1-hour Online Assessment Drop in Session

In-person attendance requirements:

Students are also required to attend a 5-day professional experience (placement)

For the most up-to-date advice regarding your professional experience (placement) please see here.

 

Note:

*Community Based Delivery (CBD) is for National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute students only.

Content

This unit introduces students to some of the key social and political contexts of education in contemporary Australian society. The notion of ‘context’ will be unpacked at the local, school, national and global levels.

The unit introduces some of the key conceptual tools of the field of sociology of education, such as ‘sociological imagination’ and ‘hidden curriculum’. Through a sociological lens, students will reflect upon the relationship between individuals and educational settings and the ways in which individuals’ physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics, as well as cultural and social backgrounds shape the experience of education. They will examine and explore how education and schools might mediate and/or redress forms of social inclusion and marginalization by focusing on particular social issues that are pertinent in twenty-first century Australian society.

Students undertake a 5-day professional experience placement in this unit, in which they will collect evidence about how social contexts of education shape life in schools, and make links to the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) standards, in particular standard 1.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Explain how an individual’s developmental characteristics and socio/cultural identity influences the experience of education

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

ULO2

Explain the notion of 'hidden curriculum' and analyse examples of how power works in classrooms

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO2: Communication

ULO3

Identify and reflect on the ways in which schools actively maintain and/or challenge social inequalities

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO6: Self-management

ULO4

Explain how national and global phenomena beyond the school impact on learning, teaching and inclusive student participation

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

ULO5

Demonstrate a beginning capacity to articulate professional growth by developing digitally rich resources for a Professional Portfolio

GLO3: Digital literacy

GLO6: Self-management

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1 - Analysis of life in a school 2000 words 50% Week 6
Assessment 2 - Sociological imagination narrative 2000 words 50% Week 11

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Hurdle requirement

Professional experience is a requirement of the Victorian Institution of Teaching for the preparation of teachers. In this unit you will complete 5 days of the required 80 days for the Bachelor of Education (Primary). Satisfactory completion of the professional experience is required in order to pass this unit.

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: ETP102 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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