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2024 unit information
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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.
1 x 1-hour lecture per week1 x 2-hour seminar per week
1 x 2-hour seminar per week
This is the first specialist Education Studies unit being offered in the Bachelor of Arts. During this unit you will be asked to explore, debate, discuss and challenge your own understanding, beliefs, experiences in education and begin the process of critical reflection around the purpose and value of education today.
This unit provides you with a broad introduction to the study of education theory and practice, spanning the related disciplines of sociology, philosophy, history and political science. It considers the development of professional knowledge in Education and the development of a range of educational theories to analyse the relationship between education and society with reference to education institutions such as: early childhood Education, schooling, training, higher Education, and adult and community.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
Identify, compare, contrast and present characteristics of different approaches to education in relation to important philosophical and educational concerns
GLO3: Digital literacy
Engage in collegial conversation and give meaningful feedback to critically evaluate different approaches to education how the nature of knowledge is understood, what sort of people are students to become, and what sort of society is being promoted
GLO7: Teamwork
Discuss and apply key theories of the sociology of education to analyse the relationship between education and society and how this informs your emerging personal philosophy of education
GLO4: Critical thinking
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.
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: EDU101 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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