468-401 Orientations to Education and Training

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On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• explain, and critically evaluate within particular contexts, the major orientations towards education and training manifested in a variety of curriculum approaches;

• identify the values, beliefs and epistemological assumptions underlying curriculum approaches and assess their appropriateness within their own and others' workplaces;

• recognise and critically evaluate the contributions of philosophy, psychology and sociology to these different orientations to education and training; and

• analyse the influence of politics and economics upon the orientations to education and training adopted in particular locations and historical circumstances.

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A critical study of the assumptions and origins of orientations to education and training variously described as, for example, technical, academic rationalist, cognitive, liberal, progressive, humanistic, vocational and socially critical; the influences of philosophy, psychology, sociology, politics and economics evident within these orientations; and historical and emergent trends in the assumptions underpinning VET curriculum.

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