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476-415 Education Studies D: Curriculum, Schooling and Society | |
Note | Special requirements: Participation in occasional fieldwork activities; 80% attendance at core seminars and elective sessions. |
Availability | Only available to repeating students |
Credit Points | 22.2 |
Coordinator | Gaell Hildebrand |
Prerequisites | Education Studies C and minimum of 250 points credit in the BEd (Secondary) or BEd (Visual Arts) course. |
Corequisites | D-level Teaching Methods and 460-415 School Experience D12 School Experience D12. |
Semester | All year |
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 |
Subject Description | 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 4000 words; an elective studies report of 2000 words and a negotiated activity of 1000 words or equivalent. Each item of assessment must be satisfactorily completed. |
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