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Note: Special requirements: Participation in occasional fieldwork activities; 80 per cent attendance at core seminars and elective sessions.
Credit points: 22.2
Coordinator: Roger Hewitt, Richard Cartwright.
Prerequisite: Education Studies C and minimum of 250 points credit in the BEd (Secondary) or BEd (Visual Arts) course.
Corequisite: D-level Teaching Methods and School Experience D12.
Contact: The overall involvement time for this subject is 280 hours. This is achieved by means of a negotiated learning program which includes core seminars, elective studies and individually contracted studies. This permits each student to select an appropriate style of learning. Each student's program is progressively monitored to ensure that during the year an appropriate balance of studies is taken to cover the subject's requirements. While contact hours vary depending on the negotiated program, students can expect to be in class, on average, for up to four hours each week for those weeks when classes are scheduled.
Timetable: Double semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- demonstrate ability to critically analyse and discuss current educational theories, policies and innovations, and the processes involved in their development;
- demonstrate an awareness of theoretical frameworks for analysing social and cultural factors which influence curriculum and schooling;
- demonstrate an understanding of the changing discourses on the nature and purpose of curriculum and schooling in our society and in other societies;
- demonstrate an understanding of and competency in the use of strategies for both formative and summative assessment which are integrated within the curriculum;
- show evidence of capacity to exercise critical judgement in educational matters and to develop the approach and skills of a reflective practitioner.
Content:
An examination of changing discourses on the nature and purposes of the curriculum and schooling; current educational theories, policies and innovations and the influences and processes involved in their development, implementation and evaluation; curriculum design for secondary school programs and the impact of assessment models and practices on program implementation and learning outcomes. Study of teachers' work within and influenced by the broad social context and as responsive to student needs. The improvement and development of teaching and school performance through processes of reflection and participation in collaborative professional activity.
Assessment:
A major contracted project of 4,000 words (55 per cent); an elective studies report of 2,000 words (30 per cent) and a negotiated activity of 1,000 words or equivalent (15 per cent). Each item of assessment must be satisfactorily completed.
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